Form Based Authentication (FBA) provides an authentication method using a web form. Using this method, a user is being presented with an editable "form" to fill in and submit in order to log into some system or service.
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How to detect SharePoint 2013/2016 authentication mode in JavaScript
I need to detect authentication type being used by SharePoint 2013 and 2016. I need to distinguish between ASP.NET Forms (cookies) authentication and Windows (Basi/Digest/NTLM/Ketberos) authentication.
I see that it is possible to detect…

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FBA login page issue in SharePoint
I have FBA sharepoint site with custom login code (see below). When the user login out side system and I passing Cookie value to FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(userName, false);. It works fine till here.
The issue is, If user goes out…

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SharePoint and Forms Based Authentication Issue - Office Apps no longer work
We have several sites that use Forms Based authentication (FBA) within SharePoint. Many of them have been running for months without issues. Within the last week or two we have noticed the following behavior for users trying to access a Read Only…

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FBA dual authentication problem
What I have?
I have configured FBA in one of the web applications with out of the box login page having dropdown box to select the either windows or FBA login. Everything is working fine.
What I want?
I want to have a custom login page having text…

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People Picker. I cannot receive FBA users in Admin Center Site
My database membership3 at .\sharepoint has many membership users.
There is web.config file for my Admin Center Site

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Is it possible to share an existing asp.net applications membership database with sharepoint 2010's, when using Forms based authentication
I am trying to integrate an existing asp.net application with sharepoint 2010. I would like to be able to have a logged in user on the application access a document library via an Iframe on the sharepoint 2010 site. I want to use FBA on sharepoint.…

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Custom Login page in SharePoint 2013 with FBA autentication
How can I customize the default login page in SharePoint 2013 with FBA authentication, but will not create a new login page, I want to modify the page that already exists.

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Where to get the credentials to use for Authentication.asmx?
For one of our FBA enabled SharePoint site, we need to access various web services. I know that we need to invoke Authentication.asmx before we make any other SP web service call.
How do I get the currently logged in user's username & password to…

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SharePoint FBA and Custom data - SharePoint 2010
Am I doing this right?
I have a client, they currently have a portal for their users, all their users are in an oracle database. They want to move to SharePoint 2010.
The user will log into the site via their username and password, which I will…

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Setting permissions to roles in SharePoint 2010 with FBA
I have SharePoint 2010, on which each WebApplication have two zones - one Windows authentication and another is FBA via LDAP. The zone with FBA is allowed for anonymous access. Users are able to login with no problem in both zones.
Now, lets say I…

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SharePoint 2010 FBA with custom form - 403 error
I have a SharePoint 2010 site that is configured for Forms Based Auth using custom role, membership and profile providers. This works perfectly using the OOTB SharePoint 2010 FBA form (ie. under /_forms in the web app virtual directory).
My problem…

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Rest call WebException 401 Unauthorized only in mixed authentication webapp
I've come across a strange behaviour when trying to make a rest call from outside an SharePoint app (specificly from a .NET console application). As long as I use DefaultCredentials everything is fine, as long as my webapplication does not allow FBA…

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FBA Display Name with custom membership provider, WSS 3.0
I have a WSS 3.0 site (no MOSS) that uses a custom forms authentication membership provider and role manager, authenticating users against a remote web service (although at the moment it works against moq data). My problem is this: users when logged…

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How do I delete my fedauth authentication cookie using c#?
I have a custom login in Sharepoint 2010 using claims-based authentication. User authentication works just fine but my custom sign out method doesn't. I have tried several solutions but my authentication cookie (federation) is still there. Why?
This…

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Issue with Spaces in UserContainer LDAP string for Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2013
Steps:
Web Application was created with Claims Authentication using Windows NTLM Authentication
FBA (Forms Based Authentication) was enabled post app creation
Was able to set up Forms Authentication for…

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