Question

I am programming with SharePoint Service 3.0/SharePoint Server 2007. SharePoint has some built-in roles like contributor, visitor, designer, administrator.

I am wondering if I use Forms Authentication, how to define roles in Forms Authentication Roles in order to map the Forms Authentication roles to SharePoint built-in roles?

thanks in advance,
George

Answer 1

There is no automatic mapping from FBA roles to SharePoint groups (just like there is no automatic mapping from AD groups)

So you’re free to call your FBA roles anything you want. You’ll then usally assign some FBA user Full Control using Central Admin (You need to add the FBA <membership><provider> entry to CAs web.config). And use this account to sign into the FBA site and add the roles to the SharePoint groups.