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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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Where should I be retrieving the user principal in an ASP.NET Web Forms app?

Assuming a fairly general use case in an ASP.NET Web Forms application, where should I be retrieving my principal + identity? I'm aware that there are generally two ways to go about it: HttpContext.Current.User Thread.CurrentPrincipal I'm…
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Where to keep data about an authenticated user?

I am still pretty new to ASP.NET Web API. I am currently working on the authentication part of a new application based on Web API, which is developed using some libraries/kinda framework of the company. There is already some MVC application - they…
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I need code revision if I am authenticating user right - Custom Principal

In my login method I used this code to login user: FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe); Since I wanted to avoid database call always when I need UserId and some other data I made something and I am not very sure that…
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Invalid cast when getting custom IPrincipal from HttpContext

After researching FormsAuthentication for a few days, I decided to store a serialized object in the FormsAuth cookie's UserData property and use a custom IPrincipal object for the HttpContext.Current.User. Most of the guides I've found say to cast…
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Extending Azure ACS Claims for MVC Sessions

I am developing an MVC 4 Application to be hosted in Azure and want to use their ACS service for authentication. Once the user is authenticated I will use the resulting claim details to correlate to my local records. Subsequent to that, I would like…
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MVC's ActionExecutingContext HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated Returns False When Signing in on Multiple Browser Tabs

During a custom ActionFilterAttribute's OnActionExecuting method, we ensure that the user is still logged in before performing some actions. We do this by doing something similar to this pseudo code: public override void OnActionExecuting(…
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Role-based Security without Forms Authentication in ASP .NET

I would like to take advantage of: Page.User.IsInRole("CustomRole"); Page.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated when working inside Page methods, as well as authorization section in web.config:
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Problems implementing IPrincipal

Trying to implement IPrincipal (ASP.NET MVC 3) and having problems: my custom IPrincipal: interface IDealsPrincipal: IPrincipal { int UserId { get; set; } string Firstname { get; set; } string Lastname { get; set; } …
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Why to create a custom principal interface when you want to create a Custom Principal in Asp.net MVC?

Recently I seaerched for how to create custom principal and I got the answer but there is one thing that I do not understand, I found this solution on stack overflow using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using…
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