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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjevtic" data-source="post: 954671" data-attributes="member: 118214">I'm not sure what you're working on with respect to the new permission system, but generally speaking, you can do Active Directory authentication anywhere you have a LDAP client library available. You can authenticate a user by binding with the provided username and password (if it succeeds, the credentials are good), and checking if a user is a member of a group isn't that hard either.  That said, dealing with the nuances of most things involving LDAP tend to be less pleasant than they should be.  I remember playing once with <a href="http://adldap.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">adLDAP</a>, and was able to get useful results pretty quickly.  I realize it's not C# and thus not directly usable, but it will give you a good idea of a workable approach and its associated complexity. Sasha</blockquote>