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Please help... i am stumped...

I have an app, written in VB.NET fwiw. I have a custom RoleProvider class,
cuz i finally got tired enough of hacking with application variables, to
learn the "correct" way to do roles. ....

Now, the problem, is that my RoleProvider, and my FormsAuthentication
Session do not stay together. That is to say, i frequently see cases where
the session will expire, but the RoleProvider does not. Now, they both have
their expiration timeouts set to the same values in the web.config file.

So what i wind up with is being able to access the "locked down" areas of my
site (because my RoleProvider is still providing the correct roles) even
though my forms authentication has expired. How can i force
FormsAuthentication and a custom RoleProvider to stay in lock-step???
This is a major problem, and comprises a pretty significant security hole.
Even though FA has expired, and it SHOULD send me back to my login page, it
doesn't because the RoleProvider is still saying i have "Admin" rights (or
whatever rights, for the 'secured' section).

I hope someone can help me with this; Thanks in advance,
- Arthur Dent.

On May 15, 6:07 pm, "Arthur Dent" <hitchhikersguideto-n...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Please help... i am stumped...
>
> I have an app, written in VB.NET fwiw. I have a custom RoleProvider class,
> cuz i finally got tired enough of hacking with application variables, to
> learn the "correct" way to do roles. ....
>
> Now, the problem, is that my RoleProvider, and my FormsAuthentication
> Session do not stay together. That is to say, i frequently see cases where
> the session will expire, but the RoleProvider does not. Now, they both have
> their expiration timeouts set to the same values in the web.config file.
>
> So what i wind up with is being able to access the "locked down" areas of my
> site (because my RoleProvider is still providing the correct roles) even
> though my forms authentication has expired. How can i force
> FormsAuthentication and a custom RoleProvider to stay in lock-step???
> This is a major problem, and comprises a pretty significant security hole.
> Even though FA has expired, and it SHOULD send me back to my login page, it
> doesn't because the RoleProvider is still saying i have "Admin" rights (or
> whatever rights, for the 'secured' section).
>
> I hope someone can help me with this; Thanks in advance,
> - Arthur Dent.

Hi Arthur,

1. can you post here the code of your custom role provider?
2. what timeout value you have set in the authentication tag of the
web.config file?

BR,