Authentication through web.config not authenticating in ASP.net 3.5

Question

This is one of this things that should be extremely simple and I just can\'t work out why it\'s not working.

I\'m trying to set up some very quick authentication for

Answer 1

Another possible pitfall that is that the user name "Admin" appears to be special and not honored if your testing a credential set in web.config

   //Authentication always returns false for me



   //Authentication works normally 

The problem doesn't seem to apply in your case, but I just spent an hour figuring that out so I thought I'd record it here.