ASP.NET Membership Provider detached from a site
<p>I'm making a webservice that acts as user authentication module. You can add roles, users, update them and see if a user can connect to given username / password, if it's logged and so on.</p>

<p>Various applications would connect to the webservice in order to centralize user management.</p>

<p>I'm thinking of using ASP.NET's own Membership Provider classes (and ASPNETDB) as it seems to have most of what i'm looking for.</p>

<p>My problem is that most of the configurations have to be done in web.config (like the connection string to ASPNETDB, addictional user properies etc). Being a webservice, I do not need the configurations to access the webserice, I want to do all the operations (authentication, administration) programmatically.</p>

<p>Is this possible? How? Thanks</p>
