Hello,
I am a bit of a newbie when it comes to security and I have started work on an existing project that uses Forms based authentication. The user name and password details are checked against the active directory. The system is an internal system, so security against external threats is not a big issue. We are using the log in information in order to log actions and role management.
What I would like to do is to automatically log in a new user using active directory. This I can do by simply changing from Forms authentication to Windows authentication. However, it is also desirable to allow a user to log out and then log back in as somebody else. Can this be done? Presumably, I need to be using Forms based authentication to do this, but what else do I need to do for the automatic log in.
The way I see it working is that the default page performs automatic log in and transfers immediately to a home page. If the user logs out, they are transferred to a log-i ...
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