FormsAuthentication with MVC Integration

ServiceStack MVC
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In the example of Login for MVC with SS auth, after successful authentication the user is “logged in” to ASP.NET auth.

Like this: FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userName, true);

Why is this necessary?

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It’s used to enable Custom Forms Authentication in MVC. Here’s another answer explaining it.
But it’s not used by ServiceStack itself.

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Hi @mythz

I’ve disabled ASP.NET auth in web.config <authentication mode="None"/>. So I’m not calling FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userName, true); any longer. I’m only using SS attributes for requiring authd user / roles. Everything is working fine with this setup. Do you see any problems with this?

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There’s no problem if you’re only using ServiceStack Auth and Attributes as it’s completely decoupled from ASP.NET Auth.

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Thanks for confirming :smile: