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5/18/2006 7:23 AM

	Rick Lamb
24 posts

Adding role to user

I thought I would do a really simple customization, and that is to automatically create a role (based on username) and assign this role to the user when they are created. My first thought was to use one of the sproc's that fire on user add, and add some code there to add them to the role. But my problem is, I can't get the roles to take by directly adding them to the database. I've added it to the DNN_Roles, DNN_UserRoles, aspnet_Roles and aspnet_usersInRoles. After doing this, I can see the correct assignments in the DNN admin, but when I assign module access to their role, it doesn't work.

So, two questions:

1. With this approach, any idea why it's not working?

2. Should I try a different approach, if so, can you give me a little direction to point me the right way?

Thanks!

5/18/2006 1:25 PM

	ErikVB
2827 posts
www.apollo-software.nl

Re: Adding role to user

adding users and roles is not only done in SQL, but also in the business layer, because the membership provider needs to add the proper information to the asp_net membership tables. If you want to find out how to create users, roes, and assign roles to users, have a look at the admin modules that do things like that

cheers,

erik

Erik van Ballegoij,
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5/18/2006 4:21 PM

	Rick Lamb
24 posts

Re: Adding role to user

I hear what your saying, and you are right. However, I still went ahead and brute forced a way to do it in the database. How I did it was to modify the aspnet_Users_CreateUser and AddUser procedures. I added code to auto assign a role in both places and that seemed to do the trick. This produced the behavior I wanted without messing with the code.

Thanks for the reply.

5/21/2006 9:41 AM

	Rick Lamb
24 posts

Re: Adding role to user

Well, i guess i spoke to soon. The users are being created with proper role assignments, however, they don't have access until I refresh the web.config. Not sure why, but I guess I created my own monster by bypassing the bll of dnn. Back at square one again...

5/21/2006 10:44 AM

	Sebastian Leupold
14288 posts
www.deutschnetnuke.de

Re: Adding role to user

note, that user and roles are cached.

Sebastian Leupold

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