Authentication not running -- how to debug?

From: Dennis Andersen (guy@pachou.com)
Date: 03/25/03 

From: "Dennis Andersen" <guy@pachou.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:39:53 -0800

I had a web application working with authentication. No problems.
A few days ago the authentication stopped and all pages that had been
protected were accessible without login. I investigated and couldn't see any
changes that would have caused this behavior -- most of the site is in old
asp and the closest any change got was to modifiy a session variable in an
asp page.

I ran a test to see if authentication was working and have the following in
the web.config file:
<authentication mode="Forms">

<forms name="MyAuth" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/" />

</authentication>

<authorization>

<deny users="*" />

</authorization>

I expected to not be able to access ANY pages, but it was as if nothing
changed. This is in the root web.config file.

How does one tell if authentication is active? How can one tell if the
web.config file was parsed ok?

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