Question

For my application when the user logs in I need to check if they have any roles assigned to them and if they don’t assign them a basic role. Also based on their role I have to redirect them to certain pages. But I can’t find a way to check/set user’s roles when they sign in.

    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult LogOn(LogOnModel model, string returnUrl)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
              {
               if (MembershipService.ValidateUser(model.UserName, model.Password))
                 {
                      FormsService.SignIn(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);
                     if(User.IsInRole("User")) 
//This won't work becauser User is not populated yet. It will be populated only on next request for some reason that has to do with setting cookies
    }

Any ideas how to work this out?

Answer 1

Apparently Roles.IsUserInRole method allows to pass string as username, so it makes possible to check users membership without calling the User object.