Re: Does 'IsInRole()' check against Active Directory groups?

From: Pat (naijacoder_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:45:26 +1000

Thats true as Joe adviced.
You can check my blog here for more info(There should be a blog relating to
Role Bases Auth).
http://spaces.msn.com/members/naijacoder/
Patrick

"Joe Kaplan (MVP - ADSI)" <joseph.e.kaplan@removethis.accenture.com> wrote
in message news:%23VtnLCDrFHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> Yes. It depends on how users are being authenticated by IIS and how you
> have ASP.NET configured, but if your web server is a member of a domain
that
> can authenticate users in your target domain and you have ASP.NET
configured
> for Windows authentication, IsInRole will answer true/false for the user's
> domain groups.
>
> Joe K.
>
> "Craig Vedur" <CraigVedur@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A0DE7A20-1473-4EF8-A550-977974314D94@microsoft.com...
> >I need to build in some role authentication for a web app... so, going
> >to
> > use the web.config to build my rules for the location files.
> >
> > my question is.. does anyone know?
> >
> > on my development box (out of work), i'm out XP Pro... and i've
created
> > some groups and users to test it...
> >
> > in the real deal, it's going to be Win 2003 Server using Active
> > Directory..... Obviously, i dont have AD on XP Pro..... Is it the
> > same
> > thing? Will it work the same?
> >
> > Will web.config be able to recognize the groups that a user belongs to
to
> > correctly authorize viewing a page based on role authentication?
> >
> >
> > So, will IsInRole() check against groups created in Active Directory on
> > Win2003 Server?
>
>