GenericAuthenticationProvider Methods

The implementing class should authenticate the user using the provided token, create and populate a UserContext object adding profiles when an item in the profileRoles collection is supported for this user. If the authentication fails, the implementing class can return a null UserContext object or throw a custom exception.

This class authenticates the user always, regardless of the user or password.

Changes the password for the user. Use ChangeUserPassword(IAppContext, String, String, String) if you need the new password in a form (raw vs. encrypted) for storing in Password.

Changes the password for the user. Performs the same functionality as ChangePassword(IAppContext, String, String, String) except that it returns the new password (raw for two-way encryptions, encrypted for one-way encryptions) as is appropriate for storing in Password.

Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object.

Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Serves as a hash function for a particular type.

Helper method for getting localized error messages.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Method that does the actual authentication. Called only by the Authenticate(String, Int64) method in this class. Note that this implementation (the Generic provider) creates a user context regardless of the password

Sets the password to null, sets the ForcePasswordChange attribute on the user and (optionally) sends the user a way to reset it via email.

Restore the user context from a user id. Used when a password is lost and you want to send the user a new password.

Returns a String that represents the current Object.

Determines if the object value is equal to another object. If the two objects are null, then this returns true. There is special handling for guid comparisons (since a guid could be a string formatted in up to 3 different ways). If the special guid handling is not performed, then the object.Equals method is used.