How do I manage permissions for my custom .NET application using Crowd?

Doug Chase

We're investigating the use of Crowd for identity and access management to our own custom .NET web app. Different users and groups will need access to different features and functionality in this app. 

I haven't been able to find documentation on how authorization is managed via Crowd; only authentication. Is it possible to use the Crowd interfaces to manage authorization to specific features for a custom application?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You can, but most of the work needs to be done in your application.

The way I think of it is that Crowd provides a user directory - that does authorisation and some information about the user's account.  Most importantly, it tells you what groups they are in.  Then your application needs to implement something that checks the groups before letting the user do things...