Re: Authenticate user is in local NT group

From: Bob (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/18/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:02:06 -0800

Wow that worked perfectly! Thank you so much Dominick!

"Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor]" <dbaier@pleasepleasenospamdevelop.com>
wrote in message news:4580be6313f86b8c7b9f61e029778@news.microsoft.com...
> Hello Bob,
>
> simply call Page.User.IsInRole("MachineName\GroupName");
>
> ---------------------------------------
> Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
> http://www.leastprivilege.com
>
>> I have an IIS server (Windows Server 2003) on an NT domain. I have an
>> ASPX page (using C# and .NET 2.0) which queries a bunch of files (an
>> index server query) and then displays links of the matching files to
>> the user. The links are network UNC paths into the same server. The
>> share is secured by a local NT group which I can populate with domain
>> NT groups and users.
>>
>> However, though the files themselves are protected, any user can go to
>> the query page and submit a query (even though they cannot see the
>> file contents). Basically I need a way to determine if the user
>> (anonymous users are disabled) is within the local NT group I have
>> created. Currently to perform this authentication I simply try to
>> open a known file on the share within the ASPX page (the server is
>> impersonating the user). If the file open fails, then the user is not
>> authenticated. Though this has been working fine, I would like to
>> write C# in the ASPX page which authenticates the user "the right
>> way."
>>
>> Can somebody please tell me what is the correct ASPX method for
>> authenticating the current user in a local NT group?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>

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