Question

I am having problems with my FormsAuthentication, for some reason whey i try to give roles to my user i get the error “The user ‘X’ was not found.”. This error makes no sense as i have just added the user the line before.

The following code

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(member.Id.ToString(), true);
Roles.AddUserToRole(member.Id.ToString(), "Admin");

Gives me the error (member.Id is 3)

The user '3' was not found

Edit: There is no requirement for the username to actuly be the username, it just has to match what i set as the users username in the FormsAuthentication! It is commen practice to use the users id instead (transformed to a string)! But this dose still not change my problem, so my user’s name is ”3”!

This is done at user login:

// Set roles
foreach(var r in Roles.GetRolesForUser(user.Id.ToString()))
    Roles.RemoveUserFromRole(user.Id.ToString(), r);
IList<UserRole> roles = _usersServices.GetUserRoles((int)user.Id);
foreach (var userRole in roles)
{
    if(userRole.Expires == null || userRole.Expires > DateTime.Now)
    {
        if(!Roles.RoleExists(userRole.Name))
            Roles.CreateRole(userRole.Name);
        Roles.AddUserToRole(user.Id.ToString(), userRole.Name);
    }
}

Solution: The problem was that i had forgot to set the roleManager in my web.config, so even though i populated my values at userlogin, did they have nowhere to be stored!

Answer 1

I changed my role manager in web.config and now it works.

It was:

<roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="DefaultRoleProvider">
    <providers>
        <add
            name="DefaultRoleProvider"
            type="System.Web.Providers.DefaultRoleProvider, System.Web.Providers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"
            connectionStringName="DefaultConnection"
            applicationName="/" />
    </providers>
</roleManager>

Now it is:

<roleManager
    enabled="true"
    cacheRolesInCookie="true"
    cookieName=".ASPXROLES"
    cookieTimeout="30"
    cookiePath="/"
    cookieRequireSSL="false"
    cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
    cookieProtection="All"
    defaultProvider="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
    createPersistentCookie="false"
    maxCachedResults="25" />