Using Session to store authentication?

Question

I'm having a lot of problems with FormsAuthentication and as as potential work around I'm thinking about storing the login in the Session?

Login:
Session["Auth.ClientId"] = clientId;

IsAuthenticated:
Session["Auth.ClientId"] != null;

Logout;
Session["Auth.ClientId"] == null;

I'm not really using most of the bells and whistles of FormsAuthentication anyway. Is this a bad idea?

Answer 1

I would not store any valuable information in the session.

For authentication I would use:

if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
    // Then u use 
    // this.User.Identity.Name as my membership_id so i could call this everywhere
}else
{
    //Redirect to Login
    //gettting my LoginPageAddress
    Response.Redirect(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["LoginPage"]);
}

Login is something like this:

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(membership_ID, false)

Anyway hope this helps