Re: authentication/login scheme

From: Paul Lynch (paul.lynch_at_nospam.com)
Date: 12/10/03 

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:46:27 +0000

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 06:41:09 -0800, "Kevin"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I am a developer, not an administrator and want to ask
>you guys for advice on designing a login/authentication
>scheme for a new .Net C# product.
>
>-The product will run on customers' intranets. (The
>website may be accessed remotely but we are not ruling
>out forcing them to go through a VPN.)
>-The logins will come from a database not from Windows
>accounts.
>-We would rather not pay to subscribe to a third party
>service (this is my assumption about Passport and some of
>the certificate methods).
>-We would rather not force the user to deploy a
>certificate on each client machine that might try to
>access the web site. (We are looking for a highly
>automated install that will require as little from the
>customer as possible.)
>- The authentication scheme used should affect this web
>site only and not all of our customers' sites.
>- We need to keep the information secure including the
>login credentials that are compared against the database.
>
>I know that I have various methods at my disposal: Forms
>Authentication, various IIS Windows Authentication
>methods and ISAPI filter DLLs. Although I have a general
>understanding of each option, I don't yet know enough to
>make thorough comparisons between the methods based on
>our requirements. Any advice you guys could give will be
>appreciated.

Kevin,

It might be worth your while having a look around this site. They have
a product which does exactly what you are looking for. You could maybe
pick up a few tips etc from their experience, FAQ's etc.

http://www.asplogin.com/

Regards,

Paul Lynch
MCSE

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