Re: Forms Authentication

From: Brad Smith (asmodean_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:13:45 -0500

You can create the user accounts and the security groups on the server that
is running the portal as local users and groups.
The Sharepoint platform uses and expects a MS user token for authorization.
There are only two feasible ways to use portal outside of AD:
    1) Build local user accounts and security groups on the portal server
for each user and group.
    2) Allow anonymous access to the portal and use some other
authenication before it, or none at all.

If you go the second route, then your users will be unable to use a MySite
and the actions they take in the portal, such as adding documents, will not
have any personlized user information. I would build a local account for
each user, regardless of the number. Or build a custom app that allows web
users to create their own local windows user accounts.

-Brad

"sanjay" <naiksunj@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:11af301c3f5f8$69c57a70$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> what is security groups on the WSS server? pls can u give
> more info when i am not using AD but Integrated NT
> Authntication.
>
>
> >"Brad Smith" <asmodean@serverx.net> wrote in message
> >news:1165b01c3f4dc$efcdcbd0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >> You could write a custom app to authenticate the users,
> >> but why not set up security groups on the WSS server?
> You
> >> could add local user accounts for the users and then
> >> assign the security groups to a WSS group in the user
> >> manager.
> >> And yes, you can index it like that through setting up a
> >> new content source. Of course, if the site is under a
> top-
> >> level portal it is indexed by default anyway.
> >>
> >> -Brad
> >>
> >> >-----Original Message-----
> >> >Can you use forms authentication for a WSS site? This
> >> WSS site is for
> >> >customer to logon on to but I want to authenticate them
> >> first.
> >> >
> >> >Also this WSS site should be indexed by a Portal Site.
> >> That is just as easy
> >> >as adding a link from the portal site to WSS site isn't
> >> it?
> >> >
> >> >-mike
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >.
> >> >
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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