Authentication help

[Bonzol]

Hey there,

I've been using authentication and authorisation in web pages for a while,,, except I never really had much of a need to make it more advanced. Atm I just have it so it blocks everyone out of the whole site and redirects them to the login page, then they have free roam to everyhting else.

What I would like to know is, is there any tutorials out there or anything that goes in to this in more of an advanced manner?

In the end I would like to have users view half the site without needing a login,, and then certain users with a login to view some sections and other users differnt sections..

any advice would be greatly appreciated,, thanx in advance

[Fishcake]

You can use the web.config to change which area's of your site are available to anonymous users etc.

        <!-- Will not allow un-authenticated users to access a folder called restricted in your web app -->
	<location path="restricted">
		<system.web>
			<authorization>
				<deny users="?"/>
			</authorization>
		</system.web>
	</location> 

        <!-- Will allow anyone to access a folder called registration -->
	<location path="registration">
		<system.web>
			<authorization>
				<allow users="?"/>
			</authorization>
		</system.web>
	</location>

That would be a simple way of seperating your site but you can also look into using roles.

[mendhak]

You don't get tutorials for these things, it's more of a combination of logic/common sense which you use to make it work the way you want.