Eric Vogel's articles on authentication (here and here) in ASP.NET Core show what you have to do in order to authenticate a user against a local database. At the end of that process, you're ready to ...

I have a common login app written in ASP.NET 1.1 that I share across several 1.1 apps. Each app has the proper forms authentication and grabs the cookie created by the login app, and all is good. I'm ...

A cookie is a piece of data typically used to store information about the user and is stored on the user’s computer. In most browsers each cookie is stored as a small file, but in Firefox they are ...

Using sessions is one of the most popular methods of authenticating users, whether it be forms authentication in ASP.NET and Java or $_SESSION based in PHP. If a user leaves their browser logged in on ...

CAS is the Central Authentication Service offered by the Identity and Access Management team within Purdue System Security (PSS). Unlike web server assisted authentication and authorization, it ...