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BinaryMisfit
BinaryMisfit

Reputation: 30519

Profile Providers and Windows Authentication

All our inhouse projects use Active Directory authentication and impersonation as this is the accepted security policy for the company.

I currently have a scenario where I need to store user profile information, and I would like to use the built-in Profile Providers which is standard in ASP.Net. I've previously used this happily with Forms Authentication, however I can't find any helpful information on how to implement this when using Windows Authentication.

The data will be stored in the database, not in Active Directory. However if the latter is possible some guidance would be appreciated.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2330

Answers (1)

Rob Tillie
Rob Tillie

Reputation: 1147

you can just use the standard SqlProfileProvider. As username, use the Context.User.Identity.Name property. ASP.NET will create a user entry in it's standard tables himself to keep track of it. The role provider also works in combination with windows authentication. See this link for more information: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/Recipe_3A00_-Implementing-Role_2D00_Based-Security-with-ASP.NET-2.0-using-Windows-Authentication-and-SQL-Server.aspx

if you enable and configure the profile provider in the web.config, you can use it like this:

ProfileBase profile = ProfileBase.Create(Context.User.Identity.Name, true);
profile.SetPropertyValue("MyProfileProperty", propertyValue);
profile.Save();

Good luck!

Upvotes: 3

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