Windows Form Application Authentication in .NET 2.0

[suresh.csharp]

Hi,
I am trying to implement ActiveDirectory Authentication for Windows
Form Application in .NET 2.0. I am not getting much help regarding
WinForms with ActiveDirectory, but most of the information telling
about ASP.NET with Active Directory.
Can any one please point me to the right information.

Thank you!
Suresh

 

[Norman Yuan]

How is your Widows App used?

If the user runs your Windows app in a network domain with Active Directory,
should't he get log on to his comuter first before running the Windows app?
Then his user identity is used for all applications he runs to access
resources in the domain, including his computer. Thatis, he has been
authenticated before he has chance to run your app. Only situation I can
think of where authentication may be required is when the user has to
perform some tasts that requires eleveated privilege. In this case, He is
suppose to use "Run As..." command to run the app and supply the "Run As..."
user credential, such as a domain administrator.

I am not sure if I understand your question correctly.

 

[Suresh.Eddala]

Our application is entirely based on the user roles.
Currently we are storing all the user credentials in SQL Server, Our
users don't want to maintain seperate user id/password to login to
Operating system and application. Users has to change their passwords
frequently for operation system and application.

So we are planning to use ActiveDirectory Authentication in our
application, where all the users credentials will be in the Domain
machine. Based on the user group in the doamin controller, we will
show to the user specific features (role based features).

Some times, users want to login as a separate user as a super user to
the systems and check some of the functionality in the system. So we
need a feature to login in as separeate user. In this case we want to
check the entered user id and password information to the domain
controller.



Thanks
Suresh