DevForce Community Forum : Windows auth

Windows auth : Great!Sorry I wasn't very...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 08:28:43 -700

Author: kimj
Subject: 2356
Posted: 09-Dec-2010 at 8:28am

Great! Sorry I wasn't very clear - as you found neither WindowsPrincipal nor WindowsIdentity are serializable to Silverlight.

Windows auth : doh, i figured out the last problem....

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:06:17 -700

Author: mikedfox
Subject: 2356
Posted: 09-Dec-2010 at 6:06am

doh, i figured out the last problem. I didn't folow your directions well enough :)

I was creating a UserBase from HttpContext.Current.User.Identity

Instead I needed to build a UserIdentity from HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name, then build the new user base from that.

so the final form looks like

public IPrincipal Login(ILoginCredential credential, EntityManager entityManager)
	{
		var ident = new UserIdentity(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name, "Custom", true);
		var principal = new UserBase(ident);
		return principal;
	}

Thanks

Windows auth : I figured out the missing bit...

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:57:55 -700

Author: mikedfox
Subject: 2356
Posted: 09-Dec-2010 at 5:57am

I figured out the missing bit you mentioned. :)

Once I changed my login to

public IPrincipal Login(ILoginCredential credential, EntityManager entityManager)
	{
		var principal = new UserBase(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity);
		return principal;
	}

I get

" The Login could not be completed because the server did not respond. Check that the server is available and contains a clientApplicationType='Silverlight' configuration setting."

I changed the serversettings in config to

<serverSettings allowAnonymousLogin="false"  loginManagerRequired="true" supportedClientApplicationType="Silverlight"/>

but that didn't help

Windows auth : Sorry, we don't have a sample...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:18:56 -700

Author: kimj
Subject: 2356
Posted: 08-Dec-2010 at 7:18pm

Sorry, we don't have a sample showing Windows ASP.NET authentication with a custom IEntityLoginManager. The DRC is a bit misleading, since it's both assuming use ofthe AspNetAuthenticatingLoginManager and jumping ahead to the final result.

The actual ILoginCredential passed into your Login method will be null, since that's what you passed from the client. What the built-in login manager does, and what you need to do in your custom login manager, is grab the HttpContext.Current.User, which with Windows authentication enabled will be a WindowsPrincipal. In the built-in manager we build a UserBase/UserIdentity from the WindowsPrincipal and return that from the login method. Since the WindowsPrincipal can't be serialized to a Silverlight application you'll need to also build a UserBase/UserIdentity, or some other custom IPrincipal/IIdentity which can be serialized.

Windows auth : Do you have any samples that show...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:30:53 -700

Author: mikedfox
Subject: 2356
Posted: 08-Dec-2010 at 2:30pm

Do you have any samples that show using Windows auth against a custom security table in silverlight.

my web.config contains

  <objectServer>
	<serverSettings allowAnonymousLogin="false"  />
  objectServer>
	  
  ideablade.configuration>
  <system.web>
	  <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0" />
	  <authentication mode="Windows" />
  system.web>
	<system.serviceModel>
		<serviceHostingEnvironment aspNetCompatibilityEnabled="true"/>
	system.serviceModel>

before querying my entitymanager I call

Manager.LoginAsync(null, LoginCallback, null);
 
and in my LoginManager : IEntityLoginManager
the credential comes across as null. In the drc, it says that if you use a null in the 
call to LoginAsynch, and the credentials will be your windows credentials, but this doesn't seem to be working.

I need a sample to follow, or maybe someone can see what I missed in the configuration.