I  am at a University wherein , use OpenLDAP for the central security. I am
trying to create a standard MemberShip provider to allow those of us who
like to program in asp.net to develop identity aware applications for IIS
servers. (asp.net 2.0)

I have a group (TESTGROUP) defined on my machine. I'm running this
code as a member of that group. It succeeds because I'm a member of
TESTGROUP:
  class Program

I am trying to encrypt a connect string that has some special
characters in it (i.e. ';' and '=' and whatever other funky chars can
be in a password). So this chokes when I use the Convert.ToBase64 and
Convert.FromBase64 methods. I need the result to be a legitimate

I wasn't sure where to post this. Let me know if you know where exactly to
post it. I'm using DNN 2.4 and till now I wasnt encrypting my passwords but
now I want to so I just changed the value of the "Encryption Key" column in
the "HostSettings" table to RSA. But how do I modify ...

How do you tell if a user "is in role Adminstrator" when using Vista with
UAC enabled?  I know I can right click the executable and select "run as
administrator", but how do I check for permissions and then force elevated
permissions before use of a section of code?  It seems ...

i have a small programm which tries to read the environment variable
"windir".
This works fine for me but if i install this software on different machines
sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt.

I'm reading through the general help file on user-level security and it
indicates that when a person logs on using their password, "Access then goes
out and reads a workgroup information file".  Does this mean that the user
needs access to where I save the workgroup information ...

GetProcessesByName throws exception if the user isnt administrator..
Considering user cant be administrator on computer how can he see what
processes are running on computer with VISTA!??!
Thanks,

Hi I am getting an error returned when I try to use the constructor
for WindowsIdentity when running from an XP platform. I am using .NET
2.0:
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity objIdentity =

I have developed a client and server application.
The client and server application are created using the socket programming.
Now i want to send the data in encrypted format.
For that i want to generate the symmertric key. Can somebody provide me the

   I have a dll compiled in Visual Studio 2005 using strong name and have
  some security demands so that the calling application/assembly requires
the
  dll signed with the private key.

I have a certificate X509 with a private key therefore is protected by
password stored in a file.
I need to read the certificate, with NET2 is a peace of cake:
X509Certificate cert = new X509Certificate(@"...path...", "password");

Hi fellows, very strange thing is happening on my application.
I have a web application on production server that is crashing when you
try to export to xls format. The application has been working for two
years and some updates needed to be done periodically. The last update

  I am new to .net technologies.
 ASP.NET has security feature by default? if not, how to provide security
while transferring data between iis server to uer's machine.
Any suggestions are welcome.

I have a web part which dynamicaly loads an ascx control. If I
configure my sharepoint for full trust, everything works fine. Using
other security settings, I get the following exception:
[SecurityException: Request failed.]