Question

I have a folder UserManagement with role based access and is as below.

<authorization>
    <deny users="?" />
    <allow roles="UserAdmin_M"/>
    <allow roles="UserAdmin_MC"/>
    <deny roles="ReportsAdmin"/>
  </authorization>

Admin will have access to other folders as well like reports.
Now the problem is, I’m having an user “TestUser” with roles UserAdmin_M and ReportsAdmin but the application is blocking the access to “UserManagement” folder for TestUser. How to overcome this?

Answer 1

I might be wrong, but could this have something to do with the order in which you have assigned the roles to your user? From MSDN it states:

At run time, the authorization module iterates through the allow and deny elements, starting at the most local configuration file, until the authorization module finds the first access rule that fits a particular user account. Then, the authorization module grants or denies access to a URL resource depending on whether the first access rule found is an allow or a deny rule.

Make sure you are assigning the UserAdmin_M role before the ReportsAdmin rule.

FYI – you can comma separate roles in your configuration:

<authorization>
    <deny users="?" />
    <allow roles="UserAdmin_M, UserAdmin_MC" />
    <deny roles="ReportsAdmin" />
</authorization>