Permissions Manager

I've successfully copied my website from Visual Web Developer Express to DASP and am able to view the site in my internet browser. However I would like to administer the permissions for each page using DASP Permissions Manager, however Im not able to see any of my objects or webforms in the directory tree, why would this be? Am I not understanding something in regards to administering permissions? Im actually thinking Id rather do permissions in DASP instead of within my development tool. Please help. thank you.

 

Permission Manager is only meant to manage permissions at a folder level.Any request made to your pages via http is considered as anonymous,hence denying permissions to the same would prompt every user with a prompt.

At the application level you can use forms authication to manage access to pages or you can explicitly add users/roles to <Authorization> in your web.config and allow/deny access to certain resources accordingly.See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wce3kxhd(VS.80).aspx for the later.

Vikram

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thank you for your reply and this link. Are you saying that its not necessary to use the ASP.net Web Administration tool for security, I can do this programmatically thru web.config?

 

As I said before,the Permission Manager is only used to manage permission at the folder level for the users you create using the 'User Manager' and what you need is manegement of permissions for each page which can taken care from within web.config (<Authorization> lets you manage access to pages by roles/users).

Vikram

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