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The System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal interface defines the basic functionality of a security object. It is most commonly used by applications written for the Microsoft.NET framework.

The System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal interface defines the basic functionality of a security object. This object represents the security context of the user on whose behalf the code is running, including that user's identity (IIdentity) and any roles to which they belong.

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How can I make accessing my custom IPrincipal easier in ASP.NET MVC?

I've written a custom principal object which contains a few additional fields (email and userid in addition to the username). In order to access these properties I have to cast the Context.User object as my custom…
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Wrong Thread.CurrentPrincipal in async WCF end-method

I have a WCF service which has its Thread.CurrentPrincipal set in the ServiceConfiguration.ClaimsAuthorizationManager. When I implement the service asynchronously like this: public IAsyncResult BeginMethod1(AsyncCallback callback, object state) …
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Do I really need to call Dispose() on every Principal?

I'm doing some Active Directory work with .NET's System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement namespace. I noticed that Principal implements IDisposable, which causes sort of a headache since everything in that namespace inherits Principal. E.g.…
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asp.net extending IPrincipal

I would like to extend IPrincipal in asp.net to allow me to get the usertype that I will define. I would like to make it possible to do this in a controller string type = User.UserType then in my extension method i will have a method like public…
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SerializationException on 'CustomIdentity' when user is denied in ASP.NET

I try to implement ASP.NET Authentication and Authorization on top of our existing database. We have a website calling a webservice to fetch its data. To use the webservice, i need to provide the username and password. Knowing that, I decided to…
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Obtaining the current Principal outside of the Web tier

I have the following ntier app: MVC > Services > Repository > Domain. I am using Forms authentication. Is it safe to use Thread.CurrentPrincipal outside of my MVC layer to get the currently logged in user of my application or should I be using…
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MVC3 + Ninject: What is the proper way to inject the User IPrincipal?

I have seen the following two example for injecting the User IPrincipal: Method 1: kernel.Bind() .ToMethod(context => context.Kernel.Get().HttpContext.User) .InRequestScope(); Method 2: kernel.Bind() …
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UserPrincipal.IsMemberOf is returning false

I am trying to validate the user is in the "TestGroup" group or not. The user is part of the "TestGroup" group, even i am getting the retval = false @line(retVal = user.IsMemberOf(groupPrincipal);), and in event viewer it is showing msg as "The user…
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IPrincipal.IsInRole() only works when I truncate the role names - why?

I have an application that relies heavily on authorization of users. Within it, I am using IPrincipal.IsInRole() to check whether users are in the correct groups: IPrincipal principal = Thread.CurrentPrincipal; bool inRole =…
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Inject IPrincipal with SignalR

I am trying to inject IPrincipal into my SignalR hub constructors. I already saw and tried the solution from "Selective IPrincipal Injection via StructureMap with SignalR", but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work anymore for SignalR 2.x. In my…
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How do you use IPrincipal and IIdentity in the portable class libraries?

With WIF (Windows Identity Foundation) 4.5, Microsoft created the WindowsPrincipal class, which is a type of ClaimsPrincipal. Of course, these classes aren't portable, but the interfaces behind them are (IPrincipal). The same can be said of the…
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linqpad and custom IPrincipal serializable

I'm using LINQPad to test code (what a great product, I must say) but now I'm encountering an exception when I try to set the Thread.CurrentPrincipal to a custom IPrincipal that is marked with the SerializableAttribute following a sample that…
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Implementing IPrincipal and IIdentity in MVC with use of custom membership and role provider

I'm stuck with the implementation of a custom iprincpal and iidentity object. I spend a day now for searching how to implement these right and extend it with more informations. I want to extend the Information @Context.User.Identity.Name with custom…
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Cannot Deserialize ClaimsPrincipal

Given I create a claims identity and subsequently a principal. Then I serialize the principal. Inspecting the json string I can confirm that the "Role" claim is there as well as the identity. Deserializing it back results in an object with empty…
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Why is Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.IsAuthenticated false when creating an instance using Simple Injector

Basically I am trying to get the current set of claims for an authenticated user (via bearer token) currently accessing a Web Api; by injecting the current principal into a helper class, which is then injected into class that is injected into an…
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