Re: How to write ASP.NET application that use ADAM for user authencati
From: Al Mulnick (amulnick_No_SPAM_at_ncDOTrr.com)
Date: 09/06/04
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Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:26:56 -0400
I agree with Lee on the virtual technology to help you take Active Directory
with you for your development purposes. Very handy.
As for the authentication portion. Active Directory and ADAM are different
products. Active Directory is used for identification, authentication (very
important here) and authorization services. It also includes some name
resolution and file replication components to make it hardy in the wild.
ADAM on the other hand is more focused on holding objects and serving them
up in a fast, reliable manner. In short, it's an LDAP store and not much
more compared to Active Directory.
The really cool thing about the two is how they can work together to provide
more robust services. ADAM can only do what it does, and Active Directory
can only do what it does, but together they offer a good cross-usage
scenario where one can be light-weight (terms of infrastructure needed) and
the other can provide some authentication services.
In short, for ASP.NET authentication (which implies the identification part)
we'd need more information about what you consider the requirements of the
authentication layer to be. If LDAP authentication is what you're after,
ADAM can do that IMHO; so can a constellation of other LDAP directories
right? If you want stronger authentication, that's different and we'd
really need to know more about what you require to hazard a guess.
-Al
"Lee Flight" <lef@le.ac.uk-nospam> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I think you would be better off developing Active Directory user
> management tools against Active Directory.
> ADAM users and Active Directory users are quite different. You might want
> to consider installing
> VirtualPC or VMware and running Active Directory in that context for
> development.
>
> Lee Flight
>
> "OrphicFireball" <OrphicFireball@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:2ADEF7E2-5989-4857-8052-7E01B4286B1D@microsoft.com...
>>I don't either, but I'd like to know a little more about it. Right now
>>I'm
>> writing programs to administer the active directory (manage users and
>> such).
>> Would ADAM work a test environment for this, while I'm at home and don't
>> have
>> access to a real active directory, or is that not what it's meant for? I
>> guess my real question is: are ADAM and Active Directory interchangeable?
>>
>> "Raju" wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Iam writing an ASP.NET application that use ADAM for authencation. I
>>> don't have any idea about how to ADAM for authentication.
>>> Can anyone please help on this.
>>>
>>> Your help is much appriciated.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Raju.
>
>
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