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The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy

Asked by: MiamiDolphins

Hi all.

ive started a visual studio project and ive fun into a problem

im using the membership provider and on my local system all was going great (first time im using the membership provider)
i created a custom provider to connect my database and again all working fine. no errors anywhere.


The problem is that now that i have uploaded the project to my Windows VPS im running into some issues.

Firstly when i go to my create member page (again this is based off the same create member page you get from the wizard - although ive modified it a little to include an extra step to add profile details)
once i enter some information and press next i get a error message

the following

Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy.  To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.

Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Request for principal permission failed.

Source Error:


Does anyone know what the problem may be given that everything else related to the provider works great??

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2009-02-01 at 16:57:00ID24103513
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Answers

 

by: MiamiDolphinsPosted on 2009-02-01 at 16:58:34ID: 23523825

i am running full trust by the way

 

by: Juan_BarreraPosted on 2009-02-01 at 17:05:53ID: 23523855

Have a look at the BIN folder, there should be a (or some) assemblies the are "locked", that is, prevented from running because WIN2008 treats them as coming from a Network.

Check it by right clicking on the file and looking at the bottom of the popup window. After "unlocking" them, restart IIS and try again.

 

by: MiamiDolphinsPosted on 2009-02-01 at 17:20:11ID: 23523895

Hi there
I checked and i didnt see any issues with the bin folder

what i've done since though is create a blank page and insert the create user wizard

tested locally - all working fine


uploaded to vps
and tested via the vps and it also worked fine


so my guess is that the problem is with my custom code

so im hoping someone can help with the code this code was just crated by running through the asp.net samples



 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!Page.IsPostBack)   
            {     
                // Reference the SpecifyRolesStep WizardStep 
                WizardStep SpecifyRolesStep = CreateUserWizardStep1.FindControl("SpecifyRolesStep") as WizardStep; 
                // Reference the RoleList CheckBoxList 
                CheckBoxList RoleList = SpecifyRolesStep.FindControl("RoleList") as CheckBoxList; 
                // Bind the set of roles to RoleList         
                RoleList.DataSource = System.Web.Security.Roles.GetAllRoles();  
                RoleList.DataBind(); 
            } 
        }
       
 
        protected void RegisterUser_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            TextBox UserNameTextBox = (TextBox)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("UserName");
            SqlDataSource DataSource = (SqlDataSource)CreateUserWizardStep1.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("InsertExtraInfo");
 
            MembershipUser User = Membership.GetUser(UserNameTextBox.Text);
           
 
            object UserGUID = User.ProviderUserKey;
 
            DataSource.InsertParameters.Add("Userid", UserGUID.ToString());
            DataSource.Insert();
        }
 
        [PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = "Administrators")] 
        protected void RegisterUser_ActiveStepChanged(object sender, EventArgs e) 
        {      // Have we JUST reached the Complete step?     
            if (CreateUserWizard1.ActiveStep.Title == "Complete") 
            {          
                // Reference the SpecifyRolesStep WizardStep  
                WizardStep SpecifyRolesStep = CreateUserWizardStep1.FindControl("SpecifyRolesStep") as WizardStep; 
                // Reference the RoleList CheckBoxList   
                CheckBoxList RoleList = SpecifyRolesStep.FindControl("RoleList") as CheckBoxList;    
                // Add the checked roles to the just-added user  
                foreach (ListItem li in RoleList.Items) 
                {
                    if (li.Selected)
                        System.Web.Security.Roles.AddUserToRole(CreateUserWizard1.UserName, li.Text); 
                } 
            }
        }

                                              
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by: Juan_BarreraPosted on 2009-02-01 at 17:23:14ID: 23523904

Hang on a sec, why do you have this flag on the method?:

[PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = "Administrators")]

 

by: MiamiDolphinsPosted on 2009-02-01 at 17:33:34ID: 23523939

yeah i forgot i had that there - only noticed it after copying the code here

but i dont need it anymore so i've removed it

(the above was me playing around with the idea that if someone was somehow able to get to the page without logging in - the code would still not run as they are not a aprt of the role)


anyway ive removed the code but strangely the error is still appearing?

i actually expected it to go this time

 System.Security.SecurityException: Request for principal permission failed.

 

by: Juan_BarreraPosted on 2009-02-01 at 17:39:08ID: 23523954

If you really removed that code, then you shouldn't still have that error.
Have you recompiled and redeployed the application?

 

by: MiamiDolphinsPosted on 2009-02-01 at 18:01:28ID: 23524021

yep sorry didnt recompile (silly me)

working now

but the code i was trying to use - was i using it wrong?

 

by: Juan_BarreraPosted on 2009-02-01 at 18:04:50ID: 23524030

Well, I think, without knowing your application, that if you want to define a Role based policy for executing code, you should use the web.config access control list and the membership provider, like:

  If User.IsInRole("Administrator") Then
 
        End If

                                              
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