It sounds like a little study is in order. Take a look at this article:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20020906.asp
Cheers,
Peter
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"profdotnet" wrote:
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> Thanks Peter for explainin'.
>
> I would like to know if users are different from roles in allow tag?
>
> Does page identify allow and deny tag values automatically to
> authenticate users?
>
> How do I access allow and deny tag values?
>
> Have a nice time.
>
> Peter wrote:[color=green]
> > When you perform authentication (typically with forms authentication) each
> > authenticated user object can be supplied with the list of roles that it
> > carries.
> >
> > So, for example, <allow users="Admin"/> would indeed only allow users that
> > have the "Admin" role attached.
> > Peter
> >
> > --
> > Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
> >
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
> > UnBlog:
> >
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "profdotnet" wrote:
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> > > Thanks Peter
> > >
> > > Can you tell me how does <allow users="Admin"/> <deny
> > > users="Jack,Mary" /> tags really can be used to authenticate
> > > application or is that these tags alone don't work.
> > >
> > > Your code link does not deal with such kind of sepcific users in allow
> > > and deny tags.
> > >
> > > Infact I would like to know what is the real advantage of adding users
> > > to deny and allow tags and what kind of code can really make use of
> > > such info stored in deny and allow tags.
> > >
> > > Hope you make this clear.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Peter wrote:
> > > > profdotnet,
> > > > Actually this is a generic ASP.NET post and probably should have been posted
> > > > to the ASP.NET group, not the C# language group.
> > > >
> > > > Hard - coded values in the web.config are just a convenience and are not
> > > > designed to be "accessed programmatically". I think what you really want to
> > > > do here is set up forms authentication with roles against a data store (such
> > > > as SQL Server).
> > > > There are a number of articles that show how to do this, including one I
> > > > wrote some time ago here:
> > > >
> > > >
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/articles/20020906.asp
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Peter
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal:
> > > >
http://www.eggheadcafe.com
> > > > UnBlog:
> > > >
http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "profdotnet" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Below is the code of web.config file:
> > > > >
> > > > > <configuration>
> > > > > <system.web>
> > > > > <authentication mode="Forms" />
> > > > > <authorization>
> > > > > <allow users="Admin"/>
> > > > > <deny users="Jack,Mary" />
> > > > > <deny users="?">
> > > > > </authorization>
> > > > > </system.web>
> > > > > </configuration>
> > > > >
> > > > > I wanna access the deny and allow tag values and authenticate the
> > > > > users.
> > > > >
> > > > > Pl. let me the piece of code to work over here.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for ne kind of pointers too (I did google it myself also)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > >
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