DevForce Community Forum : Multiple Authentication http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; DevForce Community Forum : Community Forum : Multiple Authentication Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:02:57 -700 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:47:01 -700 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 9.69 360 www.ideablade.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4002 DevForce Community Forum http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_images/IdeaBlade_logo_tm.png http://www.ideablade.com/forum/ Multiple Authentication : Technically, something like that... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4002&PID=15902#15902 Author: mgood
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Posted: 22-Feb-2013 at 11:47am

Technically, something like that is possible, but it requires extending parts of Cocktail and probably a custom AuthenticationService. Our team of consultants can help you explore and build a custom solution that meets your requirements. ]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:47:01 -700 http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4002&PID=15902#15902 Multiple Authentication : Thanks Marcel for your reply and... http://www.ideablade.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4002&PID=15901#15901 Author: pjcunningham
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Posted: 22-Feb-2013 at 11:09am

Thanks Marcel for your reply and the link you've provided.

I was thinking about an application similar to SQL Management Studio (and other variations), where I can login in to multiple databases.

Regards, Paul.
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Posted: 22-Feb-2013 at 10:34am

Paul,
The short answer is no. .NET just like pretty much any other technology does not have a notion of multiple current principals. The Thread.CurrentPrincipal property only takes a single principal (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.thread.currentprincipal.aspx).

If you have this requirement you need to look into federated identity and single sign-on (SSO) technologies. There is no restriction on the DevForce/Cocktail side to integrate SSO and federated identity systems. 
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Posted: 22-Feb-2013 at 3:41am

Can Cocktail be configured to use multiple authentications?

I have a requirement to allow an application to login in to multipledatabases (different models) simultaneously – this is at the proof of conceptstage.

My initial thought was to have multiple implementations ofAuthenticationService, all exporting IAuthenticationService. My LoginViewModelimports many IAuthenticationService (exposed as a combo box so the user canchoose which authentication service to login to).

There are a couple of issues;

In Composition.Clients.cs OnEntityManagerCreated gives the error “Probedfor service with contract IAuthenticationService and found multiple matchingexports” – so it seems I can only have one IAuthenticationService.

Secondly, if I could have multiple AuthenticationServices how toconfigure the individual EntityManagerProviders to use the correctAuthenticationService?

 

Regards, Paul

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