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User Authentication in ASP .NET
by Asif Mahmood Email: asiftaurusb@hotmail.com - 2005-09-26 23:45:08

Authentication is the process of obtaining identification credentials such as name and password from a user and validating those credentials against some authority. If the credentials are valid, the entity that submitted the credentials is considered an authenticated identity. Once an identity has been authenticated, the authorization process determines whether that identity has access to a given resource.

ASP.NET implements authentication through authentication providers, the code modules that contain the code necessary to authenticate the requestor's credentials. ASP.NET supports the authentication providers described in the following table. ... read the full article