ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool: Difference between revisions

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The security tab is used to create users and roles, group users under different roles and assign access rules either at the role-level or user-level.<ref name="security_tab">{{Cite web|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ssa0wsyf.aspx|title=Web Site Administration Tool Security Tab|accessdate=2008-05-23|publisher=MSDN}}</ref><ref name="expert_asp.net">{{cite book | title=Expert ASP.NET 2.0 Advanced Application Design: Advanced Application Design | url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=RCVoZfzs6hwC&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191l&source=web&ots=dWcSWieXbi&sig=a6pm4m70IMmwJx5iqTLqenPDciQ&hl=en#PPA192,M1| last=Selly| first=Dominic| coauthors=Andrew Troelsen, Tom Barnaby| date=2005| pages=191| publisher=Apress| id=ISBN: 159059522X}}</ref><ref name="webcast_asp.net">{{Cite web|url=http://www.asp.net/LEARN/videos/video-06.aspx|title=Lesson 9: Securing your Web Site with Membership and Login Controls|accessdate=2008-05-23}}</ref><ref name="pro_asp.net">{{cite book | title=Pro ASP.NET 2.0 Website Programming | url=http://books.google.co.in/books?id=zzlhSgGtVe4C&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&source=web&ots=h1BacPycnu&sig=qQb_EIKRBysBhw6Rr4Vb9jD-Ci8&hl=en#PPA2,M1| last=Armstrong| first=Damon| date=2005| pages=2-6| publisher=Apress| id=ISBN: 1590595467}}</ref> When the Web site administration tool is opened to modify the existing settings, a new database is created in the App_Data folder of the application.<ref name="security_tab" /> This database stores ASP.NET membership-related information. The name of the database created is ASPNETDB by default.<ref name="security_tab" />

The security tab simplifies and optimizes user [[authentication]] and [[authorization]].<ref name="security_tab" /> It makes it comparatively easy to configure user permissions than code-based user-defined authentication systems which require a great amount of time, cost and manpower. However, a major drawback of this tool is that access rules could be defined only at the [[folder|folder-level]] and not at the [[page|page-level]].