Sunday, September 19, 2004

Authentication & Access Control tool for ASP.NET

MS Releases Authentication & Access Control tool for ASP.NET

Microsoft has released a new tool to help identify authentication and access control issues in ASP.NET for Web sites, FTP sites, virtual directories, Web directories, and files. This tool not only will help to identify current issues but can be used to monitor authentication failures as they happen.By running the diagnostics tool, the user can see how the combination of configuration and IIS permissions are applied which caused the authentication failure. The tool gives detailed analysis of the current security configurations including directory permissions, IIS settings, and user roles.Using the monitoring tool, errors in authentication can be passively logged and fixed later.You can download the various versions of the tool here:

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