Re: Simpler question

From: Francis Shanahan (fs_at_NoSpamTodayThanks.francisshanahan.com)
Date: 08/22/03 

Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:17:41 -0400

I'm not a doctor :) but I do recall reading you can have a web.config in
each folder and hence it would make sense that you can have another
authorization & authentication section in that sub folder's web.config.

-fs

"Avonelle Lovhaug" <alovhaug@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:09db01c36811$f94d47b0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Alright - here's a simpler part of my previous questions.
> If I have an application that uses forms authentication,
> is it possible to have one Login.aspx file for the root
> application, and a separate Login.aspx file for a folder
> within the root application, only to be used when someone
> tries to reference that folder?
>
> From what I can tell, I will have to use the same
> authentication cookie for both folders, and utilize some
> kind of role based security to identify who can access the
> root and who can access the folder (in my case, it will
> likely be one or the other but not both). Right?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Avonelle
>

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