Claims based authentication(Basic details)
In this article, I am trying to explain some basics of new claims based authentication with live scenario. First of all, what are authentication methods are available? ASP.NET when launched supported 3 types authentications namely: 1. Windows Authentication (better for Intranet scenarios and credentials are stored inside Active Directory), 2. Passport Authentication (Now Live ID Authentication, can be used via Claims Based Authentication). 3. Form Based Authentication (where user data is maintained inside SQL Database). ASP.NET 2.0 provided some tools and classes and made FBA much simpler. It automatically created required tables, stored procedures, UI to manage Users (Membership Providers), their access rules by their roles (Role Provider) and store some more data about users (Profile Provider). In the Microsoft world, authentication is usually performed by Active Directory. I claim to be Arvind, and i prove this to Active Directory by providing my pass