Authentication

The following topics show a number of different mechanisms in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provide authentication, for example, Windows authentication, X.509 certificates, and user name and passwords.

In This Section

• How to: Use the ASP.NET Membership Provider
  ASP.NET features include a membership and role provider, a database to store user name/password pairs for authentication, and user roles for authorization. This topic explains how WCF services can use the same database to authenticate and authorize users.

• How to: Use a Custom User Name and Password Validator
  Demonstrates how to integrate a custom user name/password validator.

• Service Identity and Authentication
  As an extra safeguard, a client can authenticate the service by specifying the expected identity of the service. If the expected identity and the identity returned by the service do not match, authentication fails.

• Security Negotiation and Timeouts
  Describes how to use the NegotiationTimeout property in the LocalServiceSecuritySettings class.

• Debugging Windows Authentication Errors
  Focuses on common problems encountered when using Windows authentication.

Reference

System.ServiceModel

Related Sections

Common Security Scenarios

See Also

Concepts

Security Overview

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Last Published: 2010-03-21