Authentication in WCF
The following topics show a number of different mechanisms in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provide authentication, for example, Windows authentication, X.509 certificates, and user name and passwords.
In This Section
How to: Use the ASP.NET Membership Provider ASP.NET features include a membership and role provider, a database to store user name/password pairs for authentication, and user roles for authorization. This topic explains how WCF services can use the same database to authenticate and authorize users.
Service Identity and Authentication As an extra safeguard, a client can authenticate the service by specifying the expected identity of the service. If the expected identity and the identity returned by the service do not match, authentication fails.
Security Negotiation and Timeouts Describes how to use the NegotiationTimeout property in the LocalServiceSecuritySettings class.
Debugging Windows Authentication Errors Focuses on common problems encountered when using Windows authentication.