Re: Using login alias in Membership Provider

I believe that you have misunderstood my question. I am not trying to add a
"Display Name". Users have only one name ("John Smith/Acme") and that is
the only name that is ever used in access control lists, role membership
lists, etc. and it is the only name that should be displayed.

The problem is that my directory allows users to authenticate with multiple
versions of their name ("John Smith", "jsmith" jsmith@xxxxxxxx" or even
"John" or "Smith" if those happen to be unique in the organization).
Regardless of how they authenticate, I always want to return the real name
"John Smith/Acme" to ASP.NET.


"Steven Cheng[MSFT]" <stcheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello Stephen,

I think Dominick's suggestion is reasonable. From the requirement you
mentioned, you want to also provide an additional display name when the
user login through their logid. I think the Display name is an additional
field to the built-in membership provider, the built-in membership
provider
exposs username, password, email, question, answer.... properties.

Therefore, if you want to attache such additional properties, you may
consider extending the default membership provider or use other storage
(such as the Profile properties Dominick mentioned). Would you also tell
us
how you will use the display name in your application's code (some pseudo
code will be helpful). We can consider whch approach is better according
to
your concrete scenario.

Here are some articles about the ASP.NET profile service and memberhip
provider

#ASP.NET Profile Properties
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/at64shx3.aspx

#Defining ASP.NET Profile Properties
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d8b58y5d.aspx


#ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security
Resources
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/438953.aspx

Please feel free to let me know if you have any further questions or
ideas.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead



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