ASP.NET MVC 3 User Authentication

Question

What are some of the common methods to do simple user validation (account login)?

Also, can you have different authentication schemes per area?

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Answer 1

According to the security expert on the MVC team

The only supported way of securing your MVC application is to have a base class with an [Authorize] attribute, and then to have each controller type subclass that base type. Any other way will open a security hole.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickandy/archive/2011/05/02/securing-your-asp-net-mvc-3-application.aspx