I am using IdentityServer3 for authentication. Users are stored using AspnetIdentity framework. I wanted to provide reset password functionality to users. I want to provide this functionality in IdentityServer hosting application. I have gone through several posts here here here and this what I have done so far:
1>I have created custom user service derived from AspNetIdentityUserService.
2>Created resetpassword.html and put it in template folder. (documentation)
3>It's not necessary to create a CustomViewService, so I added LoginPageLink in AuthenticationOptions and now the link is available on login page.
4>Created ResetPasswordController
public class ResetPasswordController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
public ActionResult ResetPassword(string username)
{
// call customservice here and reset password
return View();
}
}
Issue
when i click on the resetpassword link, i get error
The view 'Index' or its master was not found or no view engine
supports the searched locations. The following locations were
searched: ~/Views/resetpassword/Index.aspx
~/Views/resetpassword/Index.ascx ~/Views/Shared/Index.aspx
~/Views/Shared/Index.ascx ~/Views/resetpassword/Index.cshtml
~/Views/resetpassword/Index.vbhtml ~/Views/Shared/Index.cshtml
~/Views/Shared/Index.vbhtml
I know why the error is, its because we don't have corresponding view in Views folder where MVC framework in looking for. My view resetpassword.html is in template folder. And that's the confusion. Identity server is using Angular to build its views.
If I decide to use angular then
1>How do I create and pass model to resetpassword.html.
2>How do I wire-up my CustomUserService to controller.
If I use ASP.NET MVC then
1>I need to add resetpassword.cshtml in Views folder and also a new Layout.cshtml in shared folder.
2>Doing so MVC scafolding will add bootstrap resources (css,js, jquery). The version may not match with IdentityServer's embedded resources.
I am comfortable coding ASP.NET MVC but worried adding bootstrap resources twice in the solution.
What is the best and easy approach here. Any sample example will be greatly appreciated.
Related
In the new SPA (react and angular) web templates for .Net core 5. I'd like to fetch the current logged in User. However, when I try to get a user in the controller the User doesn't have anything populated.
Does anyone know how to achieve this with the new Identity Classes?
I've made a repo of the vanilla reactJS template, the only thing I changed is the line highlighted in my screenshot below to show there's no user set.
I've done a bit of googling and these pages are all I could find on the topic, unfortunately, they don't give enough detail for me to be able to implement anything practical.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/identity-api-authorization?view=aspnetcore-5.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/claims?view=aspnetcore-5.0
Backend:
ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);
On the frontend if you need yo access it
//with UserManager
UserManager<ApplicationUser> UserManager
#{
var user = await UserManager.GetUserAsync(User);
}
// with SignInManager
SignInManager<ApplicationUser> SignInManager
#if (SignInManager.IsSignedIn(User))
To answer my own question.
In order to populate the User detail in the HttpContext you have 1 of 2 routes. Either change
services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>();
to
services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>();
or you can continue to use the Core Identity
services.AddIdentityCore<IdentityUser>();
but then you also need to implement your own Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.ISecurityStampValidator and add it as transient services.AddTransient<ISecurityStampValidator, MyValidator>();
Your MyValidator implementation will be responsible for validating the cookie. You can see the default implementation here on github
Edit: Under the hood services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>(); uses services.AddIdentityCore<IdentityUser>();. I feel like its importatnt to know this.
I am about to move a webshop from old webforms to new .Net Core (.Net 5) site.
The old urls have a lot of good rating on google and I would like to be able to make a permanent redirect from an aspx page to .net core page.
Etc.:
www.mydomain.com/products/great-backpack-1234.aspx
to
www.mydomain.com/great-backpack
I believe that requires that I have both .net core and aspx site running on the same domain.
Is this possible?
Or do any one have any other solution ideas?
Best regards
Thats probably not needed to run both on the same domain or space. It seems everything will end in .aspx, and assuming you are using MVC, a controller function to catch-all requests that don't match other routes, then check to see if it ends in aspx, should do it for you. You can put it in an existing controller, but I personally would put it in a new one to separate concerns
public class RedirectController : Controller
{
[Route("{**url}", Order = 999)]
public IActionResult RedirectPage(string url)
{
//Redirect logic based on the URL given, making sure it ends in aspx
}
}
The url would come across in the url parameter as a string and you can check to see if it ends in aspx, and what the page name was to determine where to send them. So "www.mydomain.com/products/great-backpack-1234.aspx" would come across in the url parameter as "products/great-backpack-1234.aspx". Note that the order field in the route attribute assures that it will be the last match checked for patterns, so it shouldn't mess with anything else.
First things first. I'm a complete OAuth newbie. This will be my first stab at it, and things are getting hairy...
I'm writing a single page application using Durandal & Web API.
The user needs to be able to login using any social network.
I don't have access to a database whatsoever, I have to call an unprotected 3rd party web service which I consume server-side, and need to protect using OAuth.
So I've managed to add the files to my solution which generates the login using facebook contol/button (created a new MVC4 web application, and did a manual copy and paste of all the auth related files, updated bootstrappers etc..), and the code seems to work for the most part.
When facebook redirects back to
[AllowAnonymous]
public ActionResult ExternalLoginCallback(string returnUrl)
{
AuthenticationResult result = OAuthWebSecurity.VerifyAuthentication(this.Url.Action("ExternalLoginCallback", new { ReturnUrl = returnUrl }));
if (!result.IsSuccessful)
{
return this.RedirectToAction("ExternalLoginFailure");
}
if (OAuthWebSecurity.Login(result.Provider, result.ProviderUserId, createPersistentCookie: false))
{
return this.RedirectToLocal(returnUrl);
}
//code removed for brevity ....
}
I get the error specified once the following line tries to execute.
OAuthWebSecurity.Login(result.Provider, result.ProviderUserId, createPersistentCookie: false)
I've removed the [InitializeSimpleMembership] attribute from the controller, as I don't have a database.
Please forgive me if this is the dumbest question ever, but...
Why does the login fail? I mean at that point, isn't the app trying to log into facebook, why does it need a databse? Or am I correct in saying I can remove/replace that code section, with a login/authorise call on the web-service I'm using?
Not the dumbest question ever. Not by a long shot. But you are getting the error because your membership provider is still set to use the SimpleMembershipProvider and OAuthWebSecurity will use the default membership provider. If you don't want to use a database you will have to create or find a different membership provider to use.
EDIT:
I know you said you don't have access to a DB but if you can use SQL Compact you can just stick with the default SimpleMembershipProvider(check out Hanselman's blog) or DevArt has a SQLLite provider. Also the MemFlex Project has a RavenDb provider. If none of those work I think you might just have to write your own.
I started the site using AST.NET Razor template, not ASP.NET MVC template.
I recall seeing somewhere on the Internet that even without MVC, it's possible to use RESTFul URLs in the razor-based ASP.NET site. It appears to work without the CHTML extension names right out of the box -- www.test.com/car automatically redirects to www.test.com/car.cshtml.
But, what if I used www.test.com/car/2, how would I get to the "2" inside the View without using MVC? I really hope that's something already baked in.
Found it -- it's in UrlData
http://beta.asp.net/web-pages/tutorials/aspnet-razor-pages/18-customizing-site-wide-behavior
section "How Routing Works"
Look at the WebGet Attribute. It has a UriTemplate.
Example:
WebGet(UriTempate="{Id}")<br>
public JsonResult Get(int Id)
{
}
I just started working with ASP.Net MVC 2.
I created a new ASP.Net MVC application and created one vehicle controler with a database table connected with LINQ. Then created forms authentication mechanism for the application and tried to use the uri instead of cookies it was working smoothly but when i submit the form by creating a "Create" view from the controler using the utility it just dont work. The autherization got failed and asking to enter the user name and password again.I had created the authorization mechanism by adding Authorise attribute to the Controller so as to get authorized for all the actions.
namespace MVCNEW.Controllers
{
[Authorize]
public class VehicleController : Controller
{
But if i use the cookies instead of uri it works fine.
Thanks in advance...
Please see http://forums.asp.net/p/1517391/3634908.aspx for an official response.
Summary: Cookieless Session support is essentially obsolete, and the MVC framework isn't likely to include additional support for it.
I found the problem and a solution.
This was due to some error in the framework. They are not creating the Uri string for the Form action while calling
Html.BeginForm()
But if we make it call overloading of this method like the providing the Controller name and Action name it is working fine.
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Html.BeginForm("Create","Vehicle")