how to use roles? there is no role table. about brockallen.membershipreboot HOT 8 CLOSED

Clams are a superset of roles. Just look for claims with Type of ClaimTypes.Role.

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As far as linking to your own UserProfile table, you can just use the ID column. But the UserAccount has claims which is an extensible store for identity information. What's in your UserProfile that you don't/can't use claims for?

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Does this method "System.Security.Claims.ClaimsPrincipal.IsInRole(System.String)" do the same (look for claims of type ClaimTypes.Role)?

Actually I don't understand Claims! It's a new shiny thing for me right now :d, do you know any good article about Claims?
My UserProfile table has information like Address, Phone, ManagerID. As a matter of fact I'm thinking to use multiple UserAccounts for a single UserProfile record, meaning that a single user can have multiple accounts.

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If you don't understand claims, then I'd suggest watching this video -- it's well worth the hour:
http://vimeo.com/43549130

So then yes, you can do User.IsInRole or ClaimsPrincipal.IsInRole -- they map to the same thing and they look in the ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Claims for a claim of Type ClaimType.Role.

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Ok great, I will download the video, but our internet connection is a little slow, it will take at least 2 hours.
I'm sorry this question turned out to be about everything! I have another question if you don't mind.

As you mentioned that claims is an extensible store for identity information, I'm assuming claims could be used for almost any information that we want for our user, like Role, secondary emails, address and etc?
As for Roles, how can we implement Hierarchical Roles ?

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Yes, claims are flexible.

As for hierarchal roles, nothing in claims provides you meta-information about the roles themselves so you'd need to build that yourself.

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Hi @brockallen ,
I wanted to thank you for the useful information. Now I have another problem, I cannot find the setting for cookie lifetime ("Remember me" tick). I'm not really familiar with Github, should I open another issue for this question?

I have another issue, I wanted to use AuthenticateWithUsernameOrEmail but this method is not available when we add MembershipReboot via Nuget Package manager. So I ended up compiling the source and adding the dll manually. Is the current code reliable for production use ?
thanks

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Yes, each question should be its own issue.

The authentication for MR is using WIF's SAM (session authentication module) so you'd have to configure it directly. Here's some help:

http://brockallen.com/2013/02/14/configuring-session-token-lifetime-in-wif-with-the-session-authentication-module-sam-and-thinktecture-identitymodel/

Yes, the NuGet is out of date with the current state of the code.

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