Website Login

[luketongue]

Hi,

I am building a website that allows you to login at any time to access
specfic user information etc .. In the past i have always used form
authentication to lock down any protected areas and this has worked
fine. My problem is this time a user does not 'have' to login to any
areas of the website but the option is there if they want. I could
implement a messy Session based login which queries a sql database of
users but was wondering if anyone knows of a better way of doing this ?

TIA

Luke

[clintonG]

Look at ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles and Profiles. Good luck trying to
access the documentation at msdn2.microsoft.com though. That website has
been FUBAR for many many weeks now.

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Hi,

I am building a website that allows you to login at any time to access
specfic user information etc .. In the past i have always used form
authentication to lock down any protected areas and this has worked
fine. My problem is this time a user does not 'have' to login to any
areas of the website but the option is there if they want. I could
implement a messy Session based login which queries a sql database of
users but was wondering if anyone knows of a better way of doing this ?

TIA

Luke