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.
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