I've been playing around with the ASP.NET Membership features in .NET 4.0 and I am having some problems with logistics that I'm hoping someone will be able to help me with. We have an application that we created in .NET 1 many, many years ago that we designed a custom authentication system for. We can assign permissions per user or group all the way down to the file level. We have both explicit allow and deny options per user or per group. We want to migrate to something easier; my hopes that the built-in security would work well for this need and reduce our programming overhead.
I have successfully created my own users, roles, etc. with ease with the membership/roles in .NET 4. But my problem is that we rarely use the web.config (99.9% of the time we use databases) and I can't find a way to programmatically assign rights to a user or group (role) in the system to access a folder or file without entering this crap into t ...
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