bare bones MembershipProvider in sitecore

Question

I\'m trying to implement a really really simple MembershipProvider for sitecore, but i\'m not sure if it\'s too simple to actually work. Basically we already have a

Answer 1

Implementing a membershipprovider is a lot of work for what you seem to need. If I were you I would implement a scenario, where you create a virtual user everytime someone needs to be logged in. So the logic would be to check if a user has your token, then create a virtual user, log the virtual user in and you should be good to go.

Here is a guide on the virual user thingie: http://sdn.sitecore.net/Articles/Security/Faking%20user%20roles/Virtual%20user.aspx

EDIT: The code in the link is depricated. Here is how you add virtual users:

   userName = "extranet\\"+userName    
   User userItem = AuthenticationManager.BuildVirtualUser(userName, true);   
   userItem.Profile.Initialize(userName, true);    
   userItem.Profile.Email = userName + "@yourdomain.com";   
   userItem.Profile.Save();

   AuthenticationManager.Login(userItem.Name)

EDIT 2: I have the following code:

    public class TestVirtualUserProcessor : HttpRequestProcessor
    {


      public override void Process(HttpRequestArgs args)
      {
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(Sitecore.Context.User.Name + "<br/>");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(Sitecore.Context.User.IsAuthenticated + "<br/>");

        CreateVirtualUser("jenneren");

        HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(Sitecore.Context.User.Name + "<br/>");
        HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(Sitecore.Context.User.IsAuthenticated + "<br/>");
        }

      private static void CreateVirtualUser(string name)
      {
        string userName = "extranet\\" + name;

        User userItem = AuthenticationManager.BuildVirtualUser(userName, true);
        userItem.Profile.Initialize(userName, true);
        userItem.Profile.Save();

        AuthenticationManager.Login(userItem.Name);
      }


    }

This outputs the following the first time I hit the frontend:

extranet\Anonymous False extranet\jenneren True

And the second time I hit the frontend I get:

extranet\jenneren True extranet\jenneren True

So it should work. Cheers Jens