Question

I can setup custom membership easily enough, but what if I need two sets i.e. admin for control panel and registered for logged on customers. This would mean two seperate tables to get users from. My question is how can I integrate the two to control through 1 custom membership and how can I authenticate on the controller for the 2?

Answer 1

You wouldn’t separate users this way, you’d implement a custom role provider and allocate these roles to the user. So say you have created two roles admin and user you’d set an attribute to your controller like so:

Admin page controller

[Authorize(Roles = "Admin")]
public ActionResult AdminAction() { }

User page controller

[Authorize(Roles = "User")]
public ActionResult UserAction() { }

If you wanted your administrators to view all logged in user pages, you’d simply just assign the user role to your administrators.