| AuthenticationHelper Methods |
The AuthenticationHelper type exposes the following members.
Methods| Name | Description | |
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  | AddUserToKicked |
Adds user to kicked.
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| AuthenticateFacebookConnectUser |
Authenticate user with provided Facebook Connect parameters. Create new user if createNew
is set to TRUE and user doesn't exist in DB.
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| AuthenticateLinkedInUser |
Authenticates user with LinkedID parameters. It will create new user if not found in DB.
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| AuthenticateOpenIDUser |
Authenticate user with provided OpenID parameters. Create new user if createNew is set to TRUE and user doesn't
exist in DB.
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| AuthenticateUser(String, Boolean, Boolean) |
Authenticate given user.
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| AuthenticateUser(String, String, String, Boolean, AuthenticationSourceEnum) |
Authenticates user against the database.
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| AuthenticateUserAD |
Authenticates user against the database.
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| AuthenticateWindowsLiveUser |
Authenticates the Windows Live user with user's LiveID. If user doesn't exists yet and createNew set
to true, then it is created.
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| CancelImpersonation |
Signs out the impersonated user and switches to the original user.
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| CanUserLogin |
Checks if given user can login to system.
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| DisplayAccountLockInformation |
Indicates if additional info about account lock should be displayed
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| EnsureExternalUser |
Ensures that the external user record is present in the database.
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| ExtendAuthenticationCookieExpiration |
Sets the authentication cookie expiration
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| FinalizeAuthenticationProcess |
Finalizes the authentication process. Does all the actions that are needed
after successful authentication.
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| ForgottenEmailRequest |
Tries to find user based on email address and if it finds the user, a password reset link is sent.
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| GetDomainSamAccountName |
Get domain name in NetBiosDomainName\SamAccountName
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| GetFormsAuthenticationUserName | Obsolete.
Checks whether the supplied forms authentication cookie is valid. If the cookie is valid, returns name of the authenticated user. Otherwise returns null.
Contains check for BannedIPs Login level.
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| GetKickedUsers |
Returns ID's of kicked users in string in format: ID1,ID2 ...
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| GetPolicyViolationMessage |
Returns a message that the entered password doesn't meet the defined password policy.
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| GetRegistrationApprovalUrl |
Gets URL for user registration approval page (Page where user is required to confirm his registration).
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| GetResetPasswordUrl |
Returns URL of page where user can reset his password.
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| GetSecuredAreasLogonPage |
Returns value of CMSSecuredAreasLogonPage setting key, or returns default logon URL if this setting key is empty.
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| GetUnlockAccountUrl |
Returns URL of page where user can unlock her account.
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| GetUserADRoles |
Gets the user roles from AD.
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| GetUserAuthenticationUrl |
Prepares the user authentication GUID, adds it as a query string parameter to supplied Url.
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| GetUserDataFromAuthCookie |
Returns an array with userdata from authentication cookie.
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| GetUserWindowsRoles |
Gets the user roles.
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| HandleAdminEmergencyReset |
Handles admin emergency reset
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| HandleAutomaticSignIn |
Check URL query string for authentication parameter and authenticate user.
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| CheckInvalidPasswordAttempts |
Check if logging invalid password attempts is enabled and if so, invalid attempt counter is incremented and
if user exceeded maximal number of invalid attempts, her account is locked
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| CheckPasswordExpiration |
Check if user password is expired and optionally according to settings lock expired password account.
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| ImpersonateUser |
Impersonates current user.
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| IsAuthenticated |
Returns true if the current user is authenticated.
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| IsAuthenticationRedirect |
Checks whether request is being redirected to a logon page.
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| IsPasswordExpirationEnabled |
Indicates if password expiration is enabled
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| MaximumInvalidPasswordAttemps |
Gets limit of invalid password attempts before user account is locked
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| NotifyAdministrator |
Sends notification e-mail to administrator about user registration.
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| RemoveExpiredKickedUsers |
Removes expired records from KickUsers hashtable.
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| RemoveSessionID |
Removes cookie with session ID which enforces ASP.NET to generate new session ID if RenewSessionAuthChange property is set to true.
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| RemoveUserFromKicked |
Removes user from kicked.
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| ResetPassword |
Resets password for user based on his request.
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| SendPassword | Obsolete.
Sends given user an email with forgotten/new password. (If the new password isn't provided current password is used for the plain text format or new password is generated for the SHA1/SHA2 format.)
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| SendPasswordRequest |
Sends e-mail to user for approval request of new password.
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| SendPasswordResetConfirmation |
Sends a confirmation e-mail informing the user about a recent password change.
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| SendRegistrationEmails |
Sends registration emails. Returns string with error if any exception occurred.
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| SendUnlockAccountRequest |
Sends e-mail to user to inform her about her account was locked due to reaching maximum invalid logon attempts.
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| SetAuthCookieWithUserData |
Creates authentication cookie of user with specified custom data.
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| SetWindowsUserCultures |
Sets preferred cultures for a windows user
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| SignOut(String) |
Signs the user out.
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| SignOut(String) |
Signs the user out.
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| UnlockUserAccount |
Unlock specified user account
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| UpdateLastLogonInformation |
Updates last logon information of user = last logon time, IP address and agent.
Doesn't call SetUserInfo!!
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| UserKicked |
Checks whether the given user is kicked or not.
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| ValidateResetPassword |
Validates request of password reset.
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See Also