Form based authentication with Window authentication

Question

Hi All

I have few queries related to Form based authentication.

1. Can I configure the same site collection to be used by Internal as well External user ie Can I have both -  form based authentication as well as window authentication for a site collection?
2.  who enters the pasword of user while a user is added to form authentication databse.
3. if a external user changes his paasword at later stage, then how that get reftlected?
4. Can we configure for an external user that when he opens that url , it don`t ask for credentials like window auhtentication

Answer 1

1. Yes

2. The password is normally entered when the user is created.  But there is nothing OOB in SharePoint to handle the creation of an FBA user.  That is dependent on the membership provider you are using.  There are several third party tools that do this, primarily for SQL based FBA.  Or you can write your own.  There are also ways to leverage the standard ASP.net change password controls to allow users to change their own passwords later.

3. If an external user changes their password it will be stored by the membership provider in the membership store.  Most commonly this is SQL.  But again there is nothing OOB in SharePoint to handle this.  Its dependent on the provider.

4. Not without custom programming.

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Paul Stork SharePoint Server MVP

Answer 2

This is definetly possible. You need to have an Alternate Access Maping defined and then internal one should be in default zone and external one can be in custom or internet zone. In default zone you can have windown autherntication for implementing FBA you need to use ASP.Net membership functionality as specified by Paul.

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Answer 3

HI Paul

Thanks for your reply, can you please provide some link/blogs for the above

 

Moderator Note: while we are waiting for those links/blogs from anybody [not just Paul], would people please stop adding new questions to this thread and post them as new threads. I've already deleted one such post (which said in effect 'I have the same problem except for X and Y' - i.e. it wsn't the same question).

Moderator Note 2: and as this is a thread in a pre-SP 2010 forum, those links/blogs should be to pre-SP 2010 links/blogs not to SP 2010 ones.