In general, the term refers to the notion of a user being presented with an editable "form" to fill in and submit in order to log in to some system or service.
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Configuring SP2013 Foundation with Forms-Based Authentication (OpenLDAP)
I am having difficulty setting up Sharepoint Foundation 2013 to use forms-based authentication with an external LDAP provider.
I have followed the instructions here:
...
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1answer
81 views
How to enable forms authentication programmatically?
So, my attempts are:
1)Site.WebApplication.IisSettings[currentZone].AuthenticationMode = System.Web.Configuration.AuthenticationMode.Forms; ...
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0answers
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Central login page - different portals (SP2010)
I would like to have some advice for the logical structure for a corporate portal.
I really appreciate your feedback.
AS IS
At the moment we have a 'partly' public facing site. Assuming this site is ...
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0answers
570 views
Sharepoint 2013 mixed mode authentication custom login
I've configured 2 zones in sharepoint 2013. Both zones are configured to use NTLM and FBA authentication in order to have full availability of all users in the people picker.
My extranet zone (FBA) ...
2
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1answer
286 views
How to get SPUser from FBA login name
I have a Form Based Authentication login name login_name
how to get an SPUser object for that login name.
I have tried the
Web.EnsureUser(string.Format("c:0-.f|role|{0}", name));
but it gives me ...
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1answer
2k views
SharePoint 2010 FBA Access Denied for Forms Users
I setup SharePoint 2010 FBA using ASP Net Membership database following the article: Step by Step Guide to Configure SharePoint 2010 Forms Based Authentication with SQL.
I configured all web.config ...
2
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0answers
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Claims/Forms Auth and Secure Store - good use?
I have a need to provide single sign on capabilities within the same enterprise - meaning sometimes I'll need access to the user's name and password. A few examples:
SSO to OWA (forms based)
SSO ...
2
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2answers
497 views
One FBA Web Application with Multiple Membership Providers in sharepoint 2010?
I am trying to implement both LDAP as well as Sql provider authentication by creating multiple zones i.e by extending the web application that already uses LDAP provider.
I have implemented following ...
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3answers
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AuthenticateFormsUser with no password
I believe in SharePoint 2007 you could authenticate a user programatically (without a password) using something like this:
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(username, false);
In SharePoint ...
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2answers
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How do I change People Search to show full names instead of login names?
People Search is showing login names instead of full names
i.e. in case of showing John Doe it is showing johnd when searched
Is there a way to change it?
I am on FBA.
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3answers
1k views
Integrating SharePoint user profiles with forms authentication
I am using SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I have deployed a publishing portal. It is using a custom forms authentication solution, i.e. I store user names, ...
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3answers
447 views
FBA Authentication with Custom Database
I want to implement forms based authentication for a sharepoint portal. I have used the standard ASP.NET membership provider database for test purpose and it work fine.
My client has Authentication ...
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4answers
431 views
How to set anonymous user as a specific user
I am using SharePiont Server 2007 Enterprise with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise. I am developing using VSTS 2008 + C# + .Net 3.5. I am wondering whether SharePoint has any means to set an anonymous ...
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2answers
416 views
Cloning a SharePoint Server 2010 (Virtual Machine) production box?
Here is the long and short:
Goal: To clone a SharepointProd VM retaining all the webapps and sites in order to debug a custom solution.
We have two virtual machines: spTest and spProd. spTest is ...
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1answer
248 views
FBA accounts not found
I have a strange issue where when I call EnsureUser I get an error that the SharePoint user is not unique or cannot be found.
I have set up claims auth in 2010 using SQL membership provider. Got all ...
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2answers
1k views
Getting current user in FBA site
I have a SP2010 site with FBA using Active directory membership provider.
I am building an application page (under /_layouts) that only authenticated users can access.
In this page's code behind, I am ...
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2answers
246 views
How to import from FBA (Claim-based) to Active Directory (AD)?
I am on FBA (Claim-based). I need to shift to Active Directory. Is it possible to do it? The reason is that I am missing out on many features which are unavailable on FBA.
Any help is appreciated!
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1answer
148 views
Claims based authentication and adding users
I set up claims based authentication on one of our web applications. It works with forms authentication. There are 20,000 users that need to access to this site but I don't know how to add them. Do I ...
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2answers
162 views
With FBA, why do providers need to be registered in Central Admin web.config?
I have a web application that uses forms-based authentication. As part of the process of setting this up (e.g. these instructions), I need to register the FBA membership and role providers in Central ...
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1answer
528 views
Can I use the audience targeting with FBA using Custom Provider?
Is there a way to use Custom Membership provider with Audience targetting?
The only way I found to do so is to duplicate the user creation by adding the user to Sharepoint group in addition to adding ...
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1answer
344 views
Windows Forms Application - How to connect to FBA site
I have a SharePoint 2010 web application and site collection with Forms Based Authentication. I am trying to develop a Windows Forms Application to connect to this site but so far the connection ...
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1answer
997 views
Server Error in '/' application while trying to sign in as an FBA user?
I have setup windows and forms based authentication on one of my web applications and have an issue while trying to sign in as fbaadmin. fbaadmin is one of the users I have added to the FBADB on ...
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1answer
291 views
Login a user from code with claims authentication (fba)
i have a problem with logging in a user from server side on a claims (fba) enabled site.
Users can register themselves on the site and get an email with a confirmation link.
After they click on the ...
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2answers
281 views
How to Limit Access to a Form using Active Directory?
I have a specific form that needs to be accessed only by certain users and/or AD groups. How do I limit access to specified users or specified Active Directory groups? Is this done via a workflow?
...
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2answers
425 views
UserNotFoundException with ActivityManager
Here is a weird situation. The site works with forms based authentication. I need to get the activity feed of the current user. As you know in FBA mode login names are prefixed with ...
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1answer
1k views
SharePoint 2010 - Dual Authentication - FBA works, Windows doesn't
I have a new SP 2010 web-application configured for Claims authentication, with both 'windows' and 'forms' authentication.
Initially, I created a root site collection, set a windows ...
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3answers
1k views
Authenticate user before getting a SPUserToken object
I know that a user can be impersonated by using an SPUserToken object when constructing an SPSite.
I need to authenticate the user before getting a token for the user as I am developing an ...
1
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1answer
145 views
SharePoint 2010 Claims
I've got a SharePoint portal configured to use Claims based authentication. I'm able to login using this, but each time I click a link within the portal, I'm redirected to the logon page. Any clues?
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2answers
1k views
LdapRoleProvider Problem in SharePoint FBA
I have a question regarding SharePoint FBA with LDAP against AD.
Currently, I have configured LDAP with LdapMembershipProvider (AD) and LdapRoleProvider (ldaprole) in SharePoint with the following ...
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1answer
39 views
sharepoint 2013 form based authentication
My project is in SharePoint 2013 I have a site collection which has two sub sites other than the root site , suppose the name of the sub sites are x and y , I have to implement fba in this project ...
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1answer
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How to set and retrieve custom profile properties in sharpeoint 2010 FBA
I have one sharepoint site in which FBA was enabled. I am trying to show all the registerd users in a grid. Along with the username and password i want to show some custom properties like company and ...
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1answer
118 views
WSS 3.0 Write to New Column in User Information List
I am working on a site that is using FBA in WSS 3.0. This is an external facing site, so in the FBA User Management page (UsersDisp.aspx) I would like to add a column that displays the user's company ...
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1answer
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Password Recovery webpart in CKS FBA is ignoring the configured email template
I'm using the FBA solution from http://cks.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/94877#85179.
The issue I'm facing is that though FBA and the webparts seems to be working correctly, the password ...
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1answer
234 views
Claims FBA with multiple membership providers
Is there a way to use only forms authentication with multiple membership providers? For example, a user would enter their username and password this would attempt to authenticate with, say, the SQL ...
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1answer
552 views
How to Set Forms Authentication Timeout?
I have a public facing SP2010 site that uses forms authentication (default ASP.NET membership provider).
I noticed that The user stays logged in even after hours of inactivity.
We need the user to be ...
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2answers
597 views
FBA Custom Login Mixed - Access Denied Loops Back to Login Page
I created a custom login page using information from David's site (Thanks David). All works fine except in the following situation:
My company has multiple domains - An employee logs into windows ...
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1answer
449 views
CQWP throwing security validation error when selecting list
I am currently building an intranet portal which is highly dependent on content query web parts. I am having an issue where when I go to select a list from the popup, it throws an error.
The ...
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1answer
1k views
Can't access the 'Site Settings' page after enabling Forms Based Authentication
I've setup Forms Based Authentication on my Sharepoint site using various online tutorials. It has both FBA and Windows Authentication and everything works as expected apart from the 'Site Settings' ...
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3answers
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SharePoint 2010 Access Denied - Temporarily fixed by Check Permissions
I am using Forms Based Authentication and security seems to be setup properly. The problem I am getting is that every so often, my users report access denied issues on one of my site collections.
...
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1answer
492 views
Combine Forms Authentication with Windows Authentication
A client wants to allow both AD users and non-AD users access to a SharePoint site. I have done similar work before on a ASP.NET site but that required a custom MembershipProvider.
Is there a way to ...
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2answers
2k views
Add FBA role to SharePoint 2010 group
I've setup FBA for SharePoint 2010 following these instructions:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2010/07/09/sql-server-provider-for-claims-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
It ...
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1answer
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how to administer forms based authentication in sp2010 foundation
I have a public facing site for community to exchange information efficiently. I have different subsites within that site. I want to provide users forms based authentication to log in to the system. ...
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1answer
223 views
Multiple mysite hosts + fba
I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. I need to create a mysite host for an FBA site in SP2010 (I'm already researching the FBA particulars parallel to this, but if anyone could give a ...
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2answers
150 views
How could I log on the Central Administration by Form Based Authentication user
I noticed that there is a value PeoplePicker which may control this. But I dont know how to do it.
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1answer
279 views
Deploying reports with enabled Forms Based Authentication (FBA)
Configuration:
Sharepoint 2010
Reporting Services Integrated Mode
Claims Authentication with Windows Authentication (NTML) and Forms Based Authentication Enabled
I can deploy reports from Visual ...
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1answer
111 views
Office software remembers logged out person when using FBA
I have a SharePoint 2010 site using Forms Based Authentication (ASP.NET Membership)
User (A) logon to the SharePoint site.
Opens a document for editing in Word.
Word displays form for login. User ...
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1answer
171 views
Add users from custom membershipprovider without enabling FBA
I have a Web application with 2 zones.
Default: used by users on the inside using AD.
Extranet: used by external users using a custom membership provider
What I want is for the users in the ...
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1answer
50 views
Activating MySites problem
We have FBA on SP2010.
This is for Activating My Sites - But I have understood that does not happen without user profile services. We have activated it in Site features but in central admin it has ...
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1answer
633 views
What Causes a Blank Screen When a Registered User Views a Page?
I have a fairly simple page in WSS3. It's basically a web part page with a custom webpart to display some text and a embedded video from Vimeo, a custom webpart to handle newsletter submissions (a ...
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2answers
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Creating Users for Formbased Authentication In SharePoint 2010 Using SharePoint Object Model?
I followed this http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/configuring-forms-base-authentication-for-sharepoint-2010-using-iis7/ to setup a sharepoint site with forms based authentication, and it ...
