Hello,

I am looking into extending Umbraco to authenticate members against existing profiles.  I have successfully set-up my Membership provider to this, however, I would like to keep the existing roles that the members have in the other system so I was trying to set-up my own Role Provider.

The problem I am having is restricting the content based on my own existing roles and the role the user has.  I am not sure that this will work in Umbraco or not.  

When I am validating the user, do I need to pull out the users role here and store this somewhere, or do I override a method in the role provider to do the look up in my existing db when the user tries to do something?

Also, I have currently (for testing) overridden every function in the role provider, but when I restrict the content pages, no function in the role provider is called when accessing the restrict page.  I would have thought a method would check the user is in the correct group, I am missing something or can someone explain the nature of the calls to the restrcited pages?

Thanks in advance!

L.