Web Service Security and Passing User Credentials

[Baheri]

In .Net 2.0 is there a standard way of passing user credential to
authenticate a user using Web Services?

[Scott Seely]

I wrote this a few years back:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tpsecurity.asp.
I'm pretty sure that it's still how ASMX does things in 2.0.

"Baheri" wrote:

In .Net 2.0 is there a standard way of passing user credential to
authenticate a user using Web Services?

[Baheri]

Thanks for the reply. The link below is a good read but still doesn't answer
my question. I know we can authenticate users by using "Windows" as an option
in the Web.config file. But for that, the user needs to be part of the Domain
or local machine. We have dynamic users that register on our website or
through the web service. And we will require an authentication mechanisim for
these users i.e. against our database. This a bit like the ASP.Net forms
based authentication. I am not sure what the equivalent way of doing it with
Web services will be? Would you have any other links that can help?
"Scott Seely" wrote:

I wrote this a few years back:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tpsecurity.asp.
I'm pretty sure that it's still how ASMX does things in 2.0.

"Baheri" wrote:

In .Net 2.0 is there a standard way of passing user credential to
authenticate a user using Web Services?