[Mono-list] .Net Membership API Support

[Cassio R Eskelsen]

I started a projetct on SF to create a Membership that support db4o GPL
databases: http://db4omembership.sourceforge.net/

In this version, is implemented:
- Create user
- Delete user
- Login user
- Register last login
- Send lost password
- Change password
- Change password question and answer
- Update user
- List all users

Cassio R. Eskelsen

2005/11/15, Ben Maurer <bmaurer at ximian.com>:
>
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 21:43 -0500, Kellner, Peter wrote:
> > Speaking of Membership, is anyone working on that class? If so, is the
> > plan to make a provider for mysql since Microsoft does not have that?
>
> Well, there are some basic stubs that I did (a long time ago). But
> AFAIK, nobody is working on implementing one of the providers.
>
> IMHO, SqlMembershipProvider (if it is implemented) should be written so
> that it queries a mssql server with the schema that msft's framework
> uses -- there would be some value to being able to share an
> authentication database with apps that are written on windows. Also, if
> somebody wants to quickly migrate an application from windows to linux,
> it may be easiest to first do the web part, then the db part. (in fact
> one app that I am working on for school would benefit greatly from being
> able to attach to the MSFT schema).
>
> If we want to have a provider that uses a free database (which is
> needed), it should probably be a mono specific assembly (that way people
> on Windows can use it too, if they don't want to pay > $1000 for
> sqlserver (and for some reason can't use don't want sqlexpress). We
> could still make this class the default in Mono's machine.config, so
> that things worked out of the box (however, for this to really work,
> we'd need something like sqlexpress's database attaching).
>
> In terms of mysql, pgsql might be a better choice as the mysql provider
> is now GPL and we are no longer updating it from upstream.
>
> -- Ben
>
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