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    <p>I have a Sitecore site where I want to have website visitor accounts stored in an external asp.net membership database but keep Sitecore content editors/admins managed via the Sitecore interface (and hence stored in the 'Core' database).</p> <p>I've read through the following forum post <a href="http://sdn.sitecore.net/SDN5/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?postid=35305">http://sdn.sitecore.net/SDN5/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?postid=35305</a></p> <p>in which the following documents are mentioned <a href="http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/62/membership_providers_sc62-a4.pdf">http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/62/membership_providers_sc62-a4.pdf</a> <a href="http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/62/security_api_cookbook_sc60-62-a4.pdf">http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/62/security_api_cookbook_sc60-62-a4.pdf</a> <a href="http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sdn5/modules/ad/low-level_sitecore_cms_security_and_custom_providers-a4.pdf">http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sdn5/modules/ad/low-level_sitecore_cms_security_and_custom_providers-a4.pdf</a></p> <p>but none of these seem to provide a complete picture of what I need to do.</p> <p>I've currently got the the <code>&lt;membership&gt;</code> section set up to use the 'switcher' provider (with a corresponding provider pointing to my membership DB) and the <code>&lt;roleManager&gt;</code> section also set up to use the switcher provider again with a corresponding provider pointing to said membership DB.</p> <p>So far I have only succeeded in breaking the user manager in the Sitecore desktop (it throws either the exception <code>Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'extranet\Anonymous' Key being added: 'extranet\Anonymous'</code> if Sitecore has created the extranet\Anonymous account, or <code>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</code> if I've deleted that user account.</p> <p>As background information I'm using Sitecore 6.5 and the relevant section of my web config is as follows</p> <pre><code>&lt;membership defaultProvider="switcher"&gt; &lt;providers&gt; &lt;clear/&gt; &lt;add name="sitecore" type="Sitecore.Security.SitecoreMembershipProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" realProviderName="myProvider" providerWildcard="%" raiseEvents="true"/&gt; &lt;add name="sql" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="core" applicationName="sitecore" minRequiredPasswordLength="1" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="256"/&gt; &lt;add name="switcher" type="Sitecore.Security.SwitchingMembershipProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" applicationName="sitecore" mappings="switchingProviders/membership"/&gt; &lt;add name="myProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" applicationName="sitecore" connectionStringName="myDatabase" minRequiredPasswordLength="1" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="10" /&gt; &lt;/providers&gt; &lt;/membership&gt; &lt;roleManager defaultProvider="switcher" enabled="true"&gt; &lt;providers&gt; &lt;clear/&gt; &lt;add name="sitecore" type="Sitecore.Security.SitecoreRoleProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" realProviderName="myProvider" raiseEvents="true"/&gt; &lt;add name="sql" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="core" applicationName="sitecore"/&gt; &lt;add name="switcher" type="Sitecore.Security.SwitchingRoleProvider, Sitecore.Kernel" applicationName="sitecore" mappings="switchingProviders/roleManager"/&gt; &lt;add name="myProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" applicationName="sitecore" connectionStringName="myDatabase" /&gt; &lt;/providers&gt; &lt;/roleManager&gt; </code></pre>
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