Re: Authentication in Asp.Net 2.0. Please, I need help. Thank You.
- From: Otis Mukinfus <phony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:39:35 -0600
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 01:10:20 +0000, "Miguel Dias Moura"
<md*REMOVE*moura@gmail*NOSPAM*.com> wrote:
I would use Forms Authentication.
See the help docs on Forms Authentication. There are several built-in
controls for handling it and several books with examples of it's use.
You should not keep the authentication data and the user data in the
same object.
>Hello,
>
>I am working on an Asp.Net 2.0 / SQL 2005 web project where:
>1. All users must login.
>2. There will be two user types: student and professor.
> The students and professors are not related.
>
>IMPORTANT:
>All students and professors will have a name, phone, ...
>However, other information is specific to a user type.
>Consider the following example:
>
> INFORMATION on each student:
> Name, Email, Phone, Age
>
> INFORMATION on each professor:
> Name, Email, Phone, Address, Position
>
>To avoid blank fields on my database I created the following tables:
>
> USERS_AUTH > Authentication information for all users.
> FIELDS: [User_ID] (PK), [Username], [Password], [Role]
>
> USERS_INFO > Personal information on students and professors
> FIELDS: [UserInfo_ID] (PK), [User_ID] (FK), [Name],
>[Phone]
>
> STUDENTS > Personal information specific to students
> Fields: [Student_ID] (PK), [UserInfo_ID] (FK), [Age]
>
> PROFESSORS > Personal information specific to students
> Fields: [Professor_ID] (PK), [UserInfo_ID] (FK), [Age]
>
> - 'PK' and 'FK' stands for primary key and foreign key, respectively.
> - [Role] in USERS_AUTH can be 'Student' or 'Professor'.
>
>My database structure becomes as follows:
>
> USERS_AUTH
> |
> USERS_INFO
> | |
> STUDENTS PROFESSORS
>
>I created this structure based on the following:
>a) Table USERS_AUTH is to be used by Membership API.
> I believe I can't or I shouldn't put USERS_AUTH and USERS_INFO
>together.
>b) USERS_INFO, STUDENTS and PROFESSORS are to be used in
>Personalization.
>c) I created STUDENTS and PROFESSORS to avoid blank fields in my
>database.
>
>
>MY QUESTIONS ARE:
>
> 1. Is this the way to do it?
> Are my assumptions in (a), (b) and (c) correct?
>
> 2. What are all the possible fields to be used on the table USERS_AUTH?
>
> USERS_AUTH is to be used by Membership API.
>
> I read some online documents and MSDN.
>
> Sometimes there is the field PasswordQuestion other times there
>isn't.
> Sometimes I see the field Role and other times there isn't.
> I might be reading Beta 1 and Final release documents.
>
> This is why I am asking for all fields to be used by Membership API.
>
>3. I need to make user information available after login, for example:
> - To display it on a page.
> - To hide or show a web page part.
> - To use in any other way.
>
> User information differs from student and professor:
> - USER_INFO and STUDENTS fields if the user is a student (Role =
>Student)
> - USER_INFO and PROFESSORS fields for students (Role = Professor).
>
> How do I get this info?
> How to I relate this with Personalization methods in Asp.Net 2.0.
>
>I've read everything I could find but I am having problems putting this
>together. I hope I, successfully, explained my problem.
>
>Could, someone, please help me out?
>
>Thank You Very Much,
>Miguel
Otis Mukinfus
http://www.otismukinfus.com
http://www.tomchilders.com
.
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