Wednesday, October 19, 2005

How to implement Role authorization after Forms authentication

After authenticating a user using forms authentication, we may want to restict access to certain parts of the website to certain users - i.e. Authorize users.

To implement Role based authorization we would need to set up a database containing info about which role a user belongs to. Then we need to construct a Principal object specifying which role the user belongs to and assign it to the HttpContext user property.

An excellent article discussing this concept is at:
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/082703-1.aspx

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