Question

Please can someone help me in the right direction to achieving a modern login, using information from a database?

I have a Microsoft SQL database that holds the username and password information.

I wish to take the user’s credentials, authentication and then start a session for them.

I’m aware of how to do a login using PHP and best practices such as hashing and salting, re-creating the session id upon login, but the Internet is failing me on this one for ASP.NET. The results are linking me to old ways of doing things using ADO.

There’s built in tried and tested Classes for doing authentication aren’t there, but how do I make use of them with an SQL database?

Answer 1

The built in providers implement their database schema. If you have an existing database or want to use your own customized database schema, you’ll have to roll your own membership provider, which is as easy as implementing an the MembershipProvider interface.