SharePoint 2010 Role Assignment to Claims(Claim Based Authentication)
Claims Authentication: Claims Authentication is a new feature in SharePoint 2010 and understanding it will assist administrators in designing and maintaining robust infrastructures and help make implementing other functionality (such as PeoplePicker) a little easier. It also provides many of the details related to setting up a trust configuration, an explanation of runtime considerations and management, configuration details, and programmatic implementations or the use of the extensibility points to turn federated access into a federated SharePoint Server 2010 business solution. Claims: An identity provider makes claims about a user. A good example of an identity provider is Live ID. So Live ID will claim to have attributes and their values. For Example: Identity Provider "provider of the attributes" contains username attribute containing Himanshu. A custom identity provider created by a hacker also contains an account with username attribute named Himanshu. Both i...
