We have a legacy system written in Core MVC 1, using IdentityServer4 for API access and Identity for user management. The site includes a set of API controllers as well, which a mobile application connects to for authentication and data.
We have been having general stability issues, which we have not been able to get to the bottom of. We have decided to upgrade the system to the latest version of MVC Core and in the process IdentityServer4 requires an upgrade.
The problem is that the authentication pipeline has changed dramatically between versions (Core MVC 1 - 2 and Identity 1 - 2) and we are unable to determine a configuration that works.
In short we need:
Cookie Authentication for web site access
OAuth 2 password grant flow for app access
However, despite this setup working on the legacy version, it does not seem to want to play ball on the newer setup. It seems we can have one or the other, but not both. There doesn't appear to be any example projects available anywhere that demonstrate such a setup.
I understand this setup is not ideal in that these systems should be split out, and I am going to be making a recommendation as such. I have seen hints of routing api requests through a pipeline setup for Bearer authentication using MapFrom but haven't managed to determine a working setup.
UPDATE: Startup.cs
services.AddIdentity<ApplicationUser, IdentityRole>(o =>
{
o.Password.RequireDigit = false;
o.Password.RequireLowercase = false;
o.Password.RequireUppercase = false;
o.Password.RequireNonAlphanumeric = false;
o.Password.RequiredLength = 6;
})
.AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>().AddDefaultTokenProviders();
var AuthServerConfig = new IdentityServerConfig(Configuration.GetSection("IdentityServer"));
var IdentityCert = AuthServerConfig.GetCerttificate();
var IdentityConfig = services.AddIdentityServer()
.AddInMemoryIdentityResources(AuthServerConfig.GetIdentityResources())
.AddInMemoryApiResources(AuthServerConfig.GetApiResources())
.AddInMemoryClients(AuthServerConfig.GetClients())
.AddAspNetIdentity<ApplicationUser>();
//to secure the API
services.AddAuthentication("Bearer")
.AddIdentityServerAuthentication(options =>
{
options.Authority = AuthServerConfig.Settings.RootUrl;
options.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
options.ApiName = AuthServerConfig.Settings.Scope;
});
And in the Configure Method we have:
app.UseIdentityServer();
app.UseAuthentication();
The stage we are at now is that IdentityServer seems to be operational in that a token can be requested. You can call into an API endpoint and gain access so long as that endpoint had the following attribute:
[Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = "Bearer")]
However, we want the API to be authenticated using both Identity Cookies as well as Bearer tokens, as there is a swagger UI for querying the API when logged in.
Using just the [Authorize] attribute will allow it to be accessed via cookies, but not access tokens through Postman (401)
Not sure if this is solved but what i personally done to enable API to be authenticated via cookie and bearer token is implement both schemes:
e.g.
services.AddAuthentication()
.AddCookie(options => {
options.LoginPath = "/Account/Unauthorized/";
options.AccessDeniedPath = "/Account/Forbidden/";
})
.AddJwtBearer(options => {
options.Audience = "http://localhost:5001/";
options.Authority = "http://localhost:5000/";
});
In the api controller i use [Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = AuthSchemes)]
[Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = AuthSchemes)]
public class TodoController: Controller
More details on different schemes and usages of them you can have a look here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/limitingidentitybyscheme?tabs=aspnetcore2x
Hope that helps.
Related
I am using ASP.NET Core Identity with social login providers in my ASP.NET Core 3.1 API. I can login with the configured providers successfully. After logging in, I have a controller that needs access to the access_token that was provided by the social authentication provider to query for additional data (Facebook in this case).
Does ASP.NET Core Identity store the access token from the social login provider anywhere by default or is that my responsibility to write it to a cookie or session in the ExternalLogin callback page of the scaffolded identity code after calling GetExternalLoginInfoAsync()?
It seems GetExternalLoginInfoAsync() only returns information in the ExternalLogin callback as calling this same method from my controller always returns NULL. So maybe the cookie is removed after successfully logging in. This seems a bit strange as I would expect it to be able to return the related record stored stored in the AspNetUserLogin table as the user is signed in when calling that method from the controller.
I've also tried using the following code to store all the tokens, but can't seem to find them anywhere. Where does it store them?
services.AddAuthentication()
.AddFacebook(fb =>
{
fb.AppId = Configuration["FacebookAppId"];
fb.AppSecret = Configuration["FacebookAppSecret"];
fb.SaveTokens = true;
fb.Scope.Add("user_birthday");
fb.Scope.Add("user_friends");
fb.Events.OnCreatingTicket = ctx =>
{
List<AuthenticationToken> tokens = ctx.Properties.GetTokens().ToList();
tokens.Add(new AuthenticationToken()
{
Name = "TicketCreated",
Value = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString()
});
ctx.Properties.StoreTokens(tokens);
return Task.CompletedTask;
};
})
This is all new to me and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. I've got an IDP (Identity Server 4) set up, and I was able to configure a client to authenticate to it (Angular 6 App), and further more to authenticate to an API (Asp.Net Core 2.0). It all seems to work fine.
Here's the client definition in the IDP:
new Client
{
ClientId = "ZooClient",
ClientName = "Zoo Client",
AllowedGrantTypes = GrantTypes.Implicit,
AllowAccessTokensViaBrowser = true,
RequireConsent = true,
RedirectUris = { "http://localhost:4200/home" },
PostLogoutRedirectUris = { "http://localhost:4200/home" },
AllowedCorsOrigins = { "http://localhost:4200" },
AllowedScopes =
{
IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.OpenId,
IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Profile,
IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Email,
IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Phone,
IdentityServerConstants.StandardScopes.Address,
"roles",
"ZooWebAPI"
}
}
I'm requesting the following scopes in the client:
'openid profile email roles ZooWebAPI'
The WebAPI is set up as such:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services
.AddMvcCore()
.AddJsonFormatters()
.AddAuthorization();
services.AddCors();
services.AddDistributedMemoryCache();
services.AddAuthentication("Bearer")
.AddIdentityServerAuthentication(options =>
{
options.Authority = "https://localhost:44317";
options.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
options.ApiName = "ZooWebAPI";
});
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
}
app.UseCors(policy =>
{
policy.WithOrigins("http://localhost:4200");
policy.AllowAnyHeader();
policy.AllowAnyMethod();
policy.AllowCredentials();
policy.WithExposedHeaders("WWW-Authenticate");
});
app.UseAuthentication();
app.UseMvc();
}
By using [Authorize] I was successfully able to secure the API:
[Route("api/[controller]")]
[Authorize]
public class ValuesController : Controller
{
// GET api/values
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Get()
{
return new JsonResult(User.Claims.Select(
c => new { c.Type, c.Value }));
}
}
Everything works fine, if client is not authenticated, browser goes to IDP, requires authentication, redirects back with access token, access token is then used for API calls that are successfully made.
If I look at the Claims in the User object, I can see some information, but I don't have any user information. I can see the scopes, and etc, but no roles for example. From what I read, that is to be expected, and the API should not care about what user is calling it, but how would I go by restricting API calls based on roles? Or would that be completely against specs?
The IDP has an userinfo end point that returns all the user information, and I thought that would be used in the WebAPI, but again, from some reading, it looks like the intention is for that end point to be called from the client only.
Anyway, I would like to restrict Web API calls based on the roles for a specific user. Does anyone have any suggestions, comments? Also, I would like to know what user is making the call, how would I go by doing that?
JWT example:
Thanks
From what I can learn from your information, I can tell the following.
You are logging in through an external provider: Windows Authentication.
You are defining some scopes to pass something to the token that indicates access to specific resources.
The User object you speak of, is the User class that gets filled in from the access token. Since the access token by default doesn't include user profile claims, you don't have them on the User object. This is different from using Windows Authentication directly where the username is provided on the User Principle.
You need to take additional action to provide authorization based on the user logging in.
There a couple of points where you can add authorization logic:
You could define claims on the custom scopes you define in the configuration of Identityserver. This is not desirable IMHO because it's fixed to the login method and not the user logging in.
You could use ClaimsTransformation ( see links below). This allows you to add claims to the list of claims availible at the start of your methods. This has the drawback ( for some people an positive) that those extra claims are not added to the access token itself, it's only on your back-end where the token is evaluated that these claims will be added before the request is handled by your code.
How you retrieve those claims is up to your bussiness requirements.
If you need to have the user information, you have to call the userinfo endpoint of Identityserver to know the username at least. That is what that endpoint is intended for. Based on that you can then use your own logic to determine the 'Roles' this user has.
For instance we created an separate service that can configure and return 'Roles' claims based upon the user and the scopes included in the accesstoken.
UseClaimsTransformation .NET Core
UseClaimsTransformation .NET Full framework
I use the IdentityServer 3 with the ResourceOwner Flow.
It seems to work. I can see in fiddler the token is accessed and validated by my WebAPI.
app.UseIdentityServerBearerTokenAuthentication(new IdentityServerBearerTokenAuthenticationOptions
{
Authority = "http://server/IdentityServer/",
ValidationMode = ValidationMode.ValidationEndpoint,
RequiredScopes = new[] { "MyFramework" },
SigningCertificate = Certificate.Get(),
DelayLoadMetadata = true
});
If I configure:
ValidationMode = ValidationMode.ValidationEndpoint
There is an extra request.
With ValidationMode.Local there is not. (This is good because IdentityServer is embedded in the WebAPI).
But if I use ValidationMode.Local, there are TWO requests to the IdentityServer.
http://server/IdentityServer/.well-known/openid-configuration
http://server/IdentityServer/.well-known/jwks
Why is this reccessary? The IdentityServer is embedded and this information is accessible in-memory. Even if the setting is "ValidationMode.ValidationEndpoint" this two calls do not appear.
But back to my primary question:
How can I validate the ClaimsIdentity in my WebAPI?
I have an "AuthenticationHandler" (ASP.NET-DelegatingHandler) that handles the validation for my old basic-authentication.
I figured out I can use the HttpContext.Current.User to access the IPrincipal.
Now I check it is of the type "ClaimsIdentity" and the Identity.IsAuthenticated==true.
Is this a correct approach?
And how can I check the User-ID?
On the server-side the ID of the user is put in the "sub"-claim (aka 'Subject').
Do I have to access this specific property to check which user is logged in?
I could access it like this:
ClaimsIdentity.Claims.FirstOrDefault(c => c.Type.Equals("sub"));
BUT only with the setting "ValidationMode.ValidationEndpoint".
Then the AuthenticationType of the IPrincipal is "Bearer" and the 'sub'-claim is present.
With the setting "ValidationMode.Local" the AuthenticationType is "JWT" and the claim is not present.
Why does the ValidationMode changes the IPrincipal? Do I have to check this for different cases?
I am new at this. Can someone please help me, since I am going crazy over my problem for nearly a month now :(
In short: I have identity server project, an webapi project and angular client. Client request to authenticate and gets id_token and access_token (all good), access_token send to webapi project where I have:
var idServerBearerTokenAuthOptions = new IdentityServerBearerTokenAuthenticationOptions {
Authority = "https://localhost:11066/IdentityServer/identity",
ValidationMode = ValidationMode.ValidationEndpoint,
AuthenticationType = "Bearer",
RequiredScopes = new[] { "permissions", "openid" },
DelayLoadMetadata = true
};
app.UseIdentityServerBearerTokenAuthentication(idServerBearerTokenAuthOptions);
and I have Autofac which should get me the current logedin user
builder.RegisterApiControllers(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()).InstancePerRequest();
builder.Register(c => new ClaimsIdentityApiUser((ClaimsIdentity)Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity)).As<IApiUser>().InstancePerRequest();
BUT Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity has nothing, and
also ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Identity has nothing. What am I missing??
p.s. Similar problem to this question Protecting webapi with IdentityServer and Autofac - can't get claims but obviously not same solution nor set up.
a) user should always be retrieved from ApiController.User (or the RequestContext)
b) token validation might fail for some reason use this resource to enable logging for the token validation middleware:
https://identityserver.github.io/Documentation/docsv2/consuming/diagnostics.html
c) are you using JWTs or reference tokens? For JWTs you can set the ValidationMode to Local
I have been working on a project with webapi 2 using oauth 2 (openid connect to be precise) bearer tokens to grant access. Now the whole idea is that the bearer tokens are only secure if used with a secure connection.
Until now I have simply not allowed http calls to the webserver which kinda worked since no one could do a http call with a bearer token.
We now have some endpoints that need to be avaible over http (no bearer token/authenticaiton required) and we are going to enable http of course. Now my question is, what is normal in these situations?
Would I have an attribute that I can put on all actions that only accept https?
Can I make that the default behaviour and only put attribute on those that are okay on http?
What is the advice on, is it our responsibility that no one use a oauth token over a non secure line or is the user of the api ?
I believe the right way to do this is to add global action filter which forces you to use HTTPs on all controllers/actions on your Web API. The implementation for this HTTPs action filter can be as the below:
public class ForceHttpsAttribute : AuthorizationFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnAuthorization(System.Web.Http.Controllers.HttpActionContext actionContext)
{
var request = actionContext.Request;
if (request.RequestUri.Scheme != Uri.UriSchemeHttps)
{
var html = "<p>Https is required</p>";
if (request.Method.Method == "GET")
{
actionContext.Response = request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.Found);
actionContext.Response.Content = new StringContent(html, Encoding.UTF8, "text/html");
UriBuilder httpsNewUri = new UriBuilder(request.RequestUri);
httpsNewUri.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeHttps;
httpsNewUri.Port = 443;
actionContext.Response.Headers.Location = httpsNewUri.Uri;
}
else
{
actionContext.Response = request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.NotFound);
actionContext.Response.Content = new StringContent(html, Encoding.UTF8, "text/html");
}
}
}
}
Now you want to register this globally on WebApiConfig class as the below:
config.Filters.Add(new ForceHttpsAttribute());
As I understand from your question, the number of controllers you want to call them over https are greater than controllers over http, so you want to add override attribute to those http controllers [OverrideActionFiltersAttribute]
Do not forget to attribute your anonymous controllers with [AllowAnonymous] attribute.
But my recommendation is to keep all the communication over https and you just allow anonymos calls.
You can read more about enforcing https on my blog here: http://bitoftech.net/2013/12/03/enforce-https-asp-net-web-api-basic-authentication/
Hope this helps.
Firstly I think you definitely have to make best efforts to ensure the security of that token and so the server should enforce SSL.
We are using web api v1 (infrastructure restrictions :() and we have a global DelegatingHandler that enforces SSL on all requests except for certain uris that are on a whitelist (not the prettiest solution but it works for now).
In web api 2 I reckon you could have a global FilterAttribute to enforce the SSL connectivity and then use the new attribute override feature http://dotnet.dzone.com/articles/new-filter-overrides-feature to create your exceptions - all theory though ! :)
Hope that helps
Garrett