I've created a mvc web application that uses openid to authenticate with Azure Ad and get the claims along with the token. I'm interfacing with Web Api to do the business transactions. The web Api is configured to oauth bearer tokens.
I've created separate oauth clients in Azure Ad for the Web App and Web Api. I'm able to get a token for Web Api from the Mvc Controller using AuthenticationContext to send to request to Web Api. I need to know how I can send the current User Claims as well to the Web Api. The claims in the Web Api are not having the claims of the User from the Web App.
Let me provide a bit more context here. I've created a MVC Web Application and a Web Api layer. The MVC Web App is configured to use OpenID authentication using Azure AD and I've configured the Web Api layer to authorize using OAuth Bearer tokens. The actions in the Web Api layer will be called through ajax requests and the bearer token will be added to the header of each Ajax requests. When the User is authenticated in the Web App, additional claims are added to the User on top of the claims from Azure Ad. I'm able to create a token for the Web Api layer using AuthenticationContext.AcquireToken, but the token for Web Api does not have the User info from the Web App.
I'm taking a wild stab in the dark here, based on what I think is happening.
Claims are attached the user, so theoretically, any claim you add in one place should be available in the other, as long as both applications share the same user datastore. However, claims are loaded at the point of authentication and not dynamically updated. As a result, if you're already logged in to the web application and you add a claim with your Web Api, that claim will not be available on the web application side until the user is re-authenticated.
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I'm currently working on a Xamarin form that consumes data from the.net core API.
For API side, I use Abp framework.
By using this reference, I can consume data from API.
But in this example, the user needs to login using an administrator credential.
What I need to do is, I just need to consume data from API without login.
Is it correct way if I add [AllowAnonymous] attribute over the API method that I need to access ?
This is the example they show,
var accessToken = await _loginService.AuthenticateAsync();
var httpClient = GetHttpClient(accessToken);
Is there any example like just using clientId/secrets and without using accessToken?
What I need to do is, I just need to consume data from API without login.
This refers to Server-to-Server authentication; backend making request to an other backend without user interaction.
The authentication flow you are looking for, is named Client Credentials Flow.
It boils down to:
Add your api (abp app) as an api resource and api scope at authentication server.
Add your ui app (xamarin app) as a client at authentication server.
Declare a client secret for your xamarin app at authentication server.
Make an access_token request from xamarin app to authentication server with the api scope and client secret that you have already created above.
Its implementation can be varied on authentication server provider (namely your _loginService). It can be Identityserver4, Microsoft, Google etc etc.
If you are using ABP application backend (as authentication server), it handles most of the automated stuff in the background. You can check abp synchronous communication between microservices docs that has explanation about how client credentials is used between microservices.
I am developing web Application in .Net Core 3. I need to manage authentication and authorization in web app based on the JWT token received from other rest API application. Is it possible to manage role based based page and navigation between them without using/creating the database for web app? How to manage token expiration for web application if we are able to manage that?
You can add same token validation parameters as you have in your other rest API app with same IssuerSigningKey, and use tokens with your main app as well
I am creating a new .Net Core Web API that is consumed by a new React client-side app. Both the client-side app and the Web API are on different hosts and protected by Auth0. I set up both the client-side app and the Web API in Auth0, and then I created a machine-to-machine app in Auth0 to be able to communicate with the Web API silently (without a user interface). The security flow works like this:
User tries to access client-side app.
User is re-directed to Auth0 to provide credentials.
Auth0 authenticates the credentials and returns user info (including user ID + access token) to client-side app.
Client-side app stores user info in local storage for future use until it expires.
Any calls to 3rd party APIs are routed through my own Web API, so 3rd party API keys are sitting in a safe place on the server, not on the client-side.
User accesses a page that requires a call to my Web API but we don't have an access token for my Web API yet.
Client-side app reads the ClientId & ClientSecret (hard-coded values) from .env file and makes a POST request to Auth0 to fetch an access token for my Web API (this is Auth0's recommended way of getting the access token for the Web API silently except they don't specify where the ClientId & ClientSecret would be stored).
Auth0 returns an access token for my Web API.
Client-side app stores the Web API access token in local storage for future use until it expires.
Client-side app invokes my Web API with newly acquired access token as the bearer token in the header.
Web API receives the access token, authenticates with Auth0 and fulfills the request.
All of the above is working for me but I am concerned about storing the Auth0 ClientSecret of my Web API in the client-side app. Although it is not visible on the screen or in a cookie anywhere, any capable user would be able to get at it by inspecting the network traffic.
Many people on the Internet seem to be fine with storing 3rd party API keys in .env files while others advise routing 3rd party API access through your own Web API ... and I am doing the latter. But I still need the Auth0 ClientSecret to get to my own Web API and I cannot figure out a better place way to get to it without storing them somewhere on the client-side.
One last-ditch solution I can think of is to not protect my Web API through Auth0 and instead every call from the client-side app to my Web API should include something unique (like the user ID from Auth0) that can be validated by the Web API. Thankfully, the user ID from Auth0 will be stored in our database when the user is set up initially, so this is actually possible.
Does Auth0 have any other way for me to get the Web API access token without providing the ClientSecret given that I already have the client-side app's access token? I am curious to know how others have secured both their client-side app and their Web API through Auth0.
You are correct, you should not include the client secret in your client-side app. Do not use a client credentials flow, instead use a auth code + PKCE or implicit flow.
With that being said, Auth0 should handle most of that if you are using a library or SDK.
You have two options for getting the token:
When requesting the initial access token and ID token add the Web API as an audience and request the related scopes.
Make a silent request using the checkSession function for Auth0.js or getTokenSilently for auth0-spa-js
Take a look at this:
https://auth0.com/docs/architecture-scenarios/spa-api/part-3
I have a web app front end and web api back end both written in ASP .Net Core 1.1 MVC. I am using Auth0 as the authentication server, using the "authorization code grant flow".
So the user logs in - i.e. the user gets directed to Auth0's login screen, which, if the username and password were correct, sends the web app back an authorization code, which the web app then exchanges for an access token, which is then used for all web api calls.
Then, the user clicks on a link which makes the web app call upon a web api action. My question is, how can the web api know which user is making the request? Or maybe at the point the user successfully logs in, the web app should call upon a controller in the web api and tell it which user just logged in? Not sure what the best practice is...
Thank you
I will answer in terms of OAuth 2.0 specification.
Specification determines 4 roles:
Resource owner
Resource server
Client
Authorization Server
In your context:
Resource owner is end-user.
Resource server is your Web API.
Client is your web application.
Authorization Server is Auth0.
Follow steps:
Your Web API should be registered on Authorization Server
(https://auth0.com/docs/apis).
Your Web API should be responsible to validate access tokens that
are used for requesting API. This access tokens contains info about
end-user/client (https://auth0.com/docs/api-auth/tutorials/verify-access-token).
You should include Web API scope in authorization request.
You should get access token in your web application and include it in HTTP request to Web API.
What is the best way to architect the following solution for authentication?
I have a standalone (not integrated with MVC) ServiceStack REST service layer. This service is the entry point to all my data. No data is stored on the client.
I have multiple clients (ASP.Net MVC 4 site, MonoTouch app, MonoDroid app, Silverlight app, MonoMac app, etc).
I would like to provide authentication (Facebook, Twitter, etc) at the service level, including storing the users in the MongoDBAuthRepository, but allow the clients to provide the login UI (do I want this?). For example, for the MVC site, I'd like to integrate the remote ServiceStack authentication service (including Facebook, Twitter), with MVC's authentication system. It seems like the actual authentication should occur on the service side, but the client side needs to hold on to the authentication response.
I've read the wiki, looked at SocialBootstrap, and read the forum, but I'm still confused as to how this is supposed to work in a distributed way.
For OAuth options like Twitter + Facebook your authentication should happen in a browser as they each require redirections from their respected auth provider to capture trusted verification from each user. Some mobile apps do this by embedding a browser widget for Twitter + FB Auth.
Once a user is authenticated with Twitter + Facebook and Credentials in the same authenticated session, ServiceStack's AuthProviders automatically merges all Auth info into the same account. So later you will be able to login with 1 auth provider but get access to info available on all 3. The SocialBootstrapApi project provides an example of this.