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If I am using Windows Authentication in an ASP.NET app, and I want to use custom roles instead of using Windows security groups as roles, do I need to write a custom Role provider? The solution needs to be able to map Windows users and groups to application specific roles.
If I understand your question – no you don’t need to use roles from Active Directory security groups as roles for your ASP.NET application. And you dont need to implement a custom Role provider. The default one simply retrieves the Roles from the ASP.NET application database.
You can simply have application defined roles in this database, that you create with the
aspnet_regsql.exeutility (in the .NET 2.0 framework folder).Probably the greatest collections of resources/information on this topic:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/02/24/ASP.NET-2.0-Membership_2C00_-Roles_2C00_-Forms-Authentication_2C00_-and-Security-Resources-.aspx