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Asked: 2026-05-11T06:53:59+00:00

I’m working on a web application that uses the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles

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I’m working on a web application that uses the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles providers with Forms Authentication. There are various roles in the system. I need to have a user role that is essentially a super-user that can ‘login’ as any user account (in effect impersonating the user).

Does anyone know if this is possible using the providers? Any ideas?

One approach I was thinking of was to logout the super-user and sign them in as the desired user with

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(username, false);

And adding a variable to their Session to flag them as a super-user. I think this would work, but I was just wondering if there’s a smarter way to do it without directly using the Session object?

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  1. Asp.net approach doesn’t support the concept, so you are right on trying to find an alternate way. Something that you can do is add the IsSuperUser info to the authentication ticket UserData property.

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