Managing Authorization Using Roles

ASP.NET role management helps you to manage authorization, allowing you to specify which resources various users in your application are allowed to access. Role management lets you group users by assigning them to roles.

In This Section

• Understanding Role Management
  Describes the role-management feature and how to use it in an application.

• Role Management Classes
  Describes the classes that comprise the role-management feature.

• Role Management Providers
  Discusses the providers and data sources available for the role-management feature.

• Securing Roles
  Discusses security issues to consider when using the role-management feature.

• Implementing a Role Provider
  Discusses how to create a custom role provider and includes a sample provider implementation.

Reference

• System.Web.Security
  Describes the classes you need for ASP.NET security features.

Related Sections

• Managing Users by Using Membership
  Describes the membership feature and how to use it in an application.

• Securing ASP.NET Web Sites
  Describes common types of Web-site security attacks and how to help prevent them.

• Security in the .NET Framework
  Describes general .NET Framework security concepts, services, and best practices.