I am facing Issue with Custom Membership Provider in SharePoint 2010 FBA

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Hello everyone,

I have working on setting up Forms Based Authentication for SharePoint 2010 using a custom membership provider & I am running into some issues that I could use help with.

I have successfully configured the web.config files for Central Administration the Security Token Service & the SharePoint site. when I try to log in using a user from the FBA database, I get an error message stating; User does not exist in the membership database. Also I have double checked the membership connection string and it seems correct.

Also I am wondering if there are any specific considerations related to cybersecurity when configuring FBA in SharePoint 2010, such as best practices for secure authentication.

Has anyone facing a similar issue or know of any detailed steps to ensure everything is correctly configured?

As well, I found these resources when doing research on this; Custom Membership Provider Issue! & if anyone have any resources, tutorials or personal experiences please share with me, It would be greatly appreciated!!

Thank you… :smile:

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Did you create the custom membership provider yourself? As long as all of the membership provider functions are implemented it should work. What’s the purpose of the custom membership provider (ie why aren’t you using the sqlmembershipprovider?).

Also, one thing to check that’s a common problem, even with the correct connection string, is to make sure that the app pool user has permissions to access the database.