I am using forms authentication. I do not have default.aspx nor do I want
one as I am using multiple roles and I want to redirect the user after
logging in based on his role. Here's the pertinent section from web.config:
<authentication mode="Forms">

System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot open log for source {0}. You may
not have write access. ---> System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: Access is
denied
I am getting the following error when writing to the event log (Application)

I have a client that we have written an intranet asp.net application for.
They installed it and configured it on some new hardware. The hardware was
configured as a real domain with new client machines. Everything was working
fine until...

I'm a little new to ASP Dotnet, but have been coding in classic ASP for over
5 years...
I'd appreciate some suggestions/guidance in writing an Intranet login page
that authenticates domain users to AD on a Win2003 server.  Is it possible

Hello, I got this weird problem. I have an intranet application that needs to
communicate with Active directory. Authentication to Web application is done
by means of active directory accounts.
Now I have this code:

you can't use UserStore in an ASP.NET application -
the DPAPI key for users is stored in the users' profile. ASP.NET does not load the userprofile for performance reasons (there is a LoadProfile win32 API - but it requires SYSTEM privs). so - you have to use the MachineStore.
...

On the webserver, all the websites are in folders on the d-drive.
eg: my test website is 'd:\dir1\dir2\websites\asptest'.
The IIS is configurated that all th esite sare in the d:\...\websites\
directory

I have an ASP.Net Application,
This application is accessed based on user identiy authorization.
This application is hosed on server locted on NT domain (based On AD) groups.
This application is also accessed from another workgroup (not defined on

this is rather complicated, but intriguing problem that I have been having.
What I want to do is: after user connects to my asp.net application, I want
to elevate the thread's user from ASPNET to let's say administrator so that
priviledged operation could be performed. I don't want ...

I developed and deployed an ASP.net website. One of my clients, trying
to access the website are getting and "Object Reference Not Set to an
Instance" error.  They are behind a firewall.
The website opens fine in all other machines.

I have a windows authenticated web site - a sub directory
has been secured by denying various roles. When access is
denied the default error page for 401.2 is displayed -
How can I customise my own access denied page?

I am a little confused about the difference between two ways of
implementing impersonation.
Some sources say that if one needs to run application under a specific
account, he should use this

I have an ASP.NET 1.1 Web app and am now implementing SSL. It used
forms authentication. Everything works fine but I get unexpected(by me)
behavior when I set the requireSSL in the config file.
My scenario is, I want to login securely in a secure directory and then

I am using the SHA 256 function call in C# using the input "jonny".
I get the output
0fae56d5786cade88b348cf55a9e4a217406ff5359e517cddf9fea2bb686ea6f
and I am expecting the output

ticket is an instance of FormsAuthenticationTicket;
HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName,
FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket));
if (ticket.IsPersistent)