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  • vcuankitdotnet
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    SiteMinder vs .NET Membership Provider/Forms Authentication

    Hi everyone,

    We are currently under-going a new security service and the company is
    leaning towards using SiteMinder. My question is: why not just use
    the .NET membership and roles provider and create a custom provider
    suitable to the business need? What else does SiteMinder do that
    the .NET framework does not do to facilitate authentication and
    authorization on .NET web applications? Most importantly, is there
    anything that the .NET framework does which SiteMinder does not do?

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks!
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    • Jesse Houwing
      #2
      Re: SiteMinder vs .NET Membership Provider/Forms Authentication

      Hello vcuankitdotnet,
      Hi everyone,
      >
      We are currently under-going a new security service and the company is
      leaning towards using SiteMinder. My question is: why not just use
      the .NET membership and roles provider and create a custom provider
      suitable to the business need? What else does SiteMinder do that
      the .NET framework does not do to facilitate authentication and
      authorization on .NET web applications? Most importantly, is there
      anything that the .NET framework does which SiteMinder does not do?
      Any help would be greatly appreciated.
      Even if they decide to use SiteMinder, why not write a provider that get's
      the values from SiteMinder and make sure you can easily switch between versions,
      other apps and futute business quircks.

      My guess the only feature which doesn't exist in the Membership system by
      default, which SiteMinder does allow for is SingleSignOn. It migth take somework,
      but in the end I think that you can make SiteMinder and Membership work together
      very tightly.

      --
      Jesse Houwing
      jesse.houwing at sogeti.nl


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        • vcuankitdotnet
          #3
          Re: SiteMinder vs .NET Membership Provider/Forms Authentication

          I'm not an expert, but can't you configure IIS for single sign-on in
          your web application? I'm just failing to see why anyone would pay
          money to use SiteMinder as opposed to just spending a little bit of
          time and developing a custom membership provider?

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