Month: January 2020

Globally Require Authenticated Users By Default Using Fallback Policies in ASP.NET Core

Nice article

Scott Sauber

tldr;

You can use Fallback Policies in ASP.NET Core 3.0+ to require an Authenticated User by default. Conceptually, you can think of this as adding an [Authorize] attribute by default to every single Controller and Razor Page ONLY WHEN no other attribute is specified on a Controller or Razor Page (like [AllowAnonymous] or [Authorize(PolicyName="PolicyName")]).  See lines 9-11 below.



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publicclassStartup
{
// Other Startup code omitted
publicvoidConfigureServices(IServiceCollectionservices)
{
services.AddAuthorization(options=>
{
options.FallbackPolicy=newAuthorizationPolicyBuilder()
.RequireAuthenticatedUser()
.Build();
// Register other policies here
});
// Other service registrations omitted
}
}
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Requiring MFA for Admin Pages in an ASP.NET Core Identity application

Nice article from Damien.

Software Engineering

This article shows how MFA could be forced on users to access sensitive pages within an ASP.NET Core Identity application. This could be useful for applications where different levels of access exist for the different identities. For example, users might be able to view the profile data using a password login, but an administrator would be required to use MFA to access the admin pages.

Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi

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Extending the Login with a MFA claim

The application is setup using ASP.NET Core with Identity and Razor Pages. In this demo, the SQL Server was replaced with SQLite, and the nuget packages were updated. The AddIdentity method is used instead of AddDefaultIdentity one, so…

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