Setting up User Management

Owned by James Ellis-Jones
Last updated: Jun 17, 2016
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Unlike most CMSs, Lynicon is designed to be able to be added to existing projects as well as to be used as the basis on which to build a new project. Consequently it has been designed to be very adaptable in terms of how users are managed, and via adaptors to be able to use systems for user management which may already exist in projects to which it is added at a later stage.  There is a general approach to adapting a user management system to work with Lynicon, which is not a trivial task, however prebuilt adapters exist as follows:

Set up documentationDescription
Lynicon ASP.Net MembershipLynicon comes with by default a customised version of the ASP.Net Membership system. This will not work with ASP.Net Core going forward and will be replaced in the near future.
Generic ASP.Net IdentityAn adaptor is provided which can in 2 lines of code configure Lynicon to use ASP.Net Identity. This allows for depended on types such as for the user record and the store to be specified in the same way as ASP.Net Identity does in general.