RE: Getting forms auth challenge

From: Jim Cheshire [MSFT] (jamesche_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 21:35:15 GMT

Mark,

You are allowing everyone to the site. Therefore, no one needs to
authenticate. You need to change your <authorization> section as follows:

<authorization>
    <deny users="?" />
    <allow users="*" />
</authorization>

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
jamesche@online.microsoft.com

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>From: murphy@murphysw.com (MarkMurphy)
>Newsgroups: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.aspnet.security
>Subject: Getting forms auth challenge
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>I'm implementing forms authentication on a site and can't get the
>redirection to the login page to work happen. It is behaving as
>though still doing windows authentication.
>
>In web.config:
>
> <authentication mode="Forms">
> <forms loginUrl="login.aspx" name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH"
>protection="All"/>
> </authentication>
>
> <!-- AUTHORIZATION
> This section sets the authorization policies of the
>application. You can allow or deny access
> to application resources by user or role. Wildcards: "*"
>mean everyone, "?" means anonymous
> (unauthenticated) users.
> -->
>
> <authorization>
> <allow users="*" /> <!-- Allow all users -->
> <!-- <allow users="[comma separated list of users]"
> roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
> <deny users="[comma separated list of users]"
> roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
> -->
> </authorization>
>
>
>Am I missing something?
>
>Thanks in advance, Mark
>

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