I have developed one REST WCF and would like to client will use it with basic Authentication, I have hosted this service in IIS 7.0 and disabled all authentication except Basic Authentication.
Now problem is that when call this service from any other application (in my case i am calling this from ruby command prompt) with Header "Basic bXlhZGRvbjpDcFplcUc5MzlHdDZQMEtD" although i was not able to authenticate this service.
Make it more simple , when i will access this service (.svc) from browser due to basic Authentication
it will prompt to enter username & password , so which residential i need to pass here and to which credential i need to compare (weather i need to set in web.config or IIS)??
Thanks in Advance
Arun.
For basic authentication, IIS would always try to validate the userName & Password as a windows users (either local or domain user).
Dominick has created a Basic Http Authentication module which let's you use other credential stores with Basic Authentication.
http://www.leastprivilege.com/HTTPBasicAuthenticationAgainstNonWindowsAccountsInIISASPNETPart3AddingWCFSupport.aspx
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I am trying to request data from a uri in the form "https://link.sharepoint.com/sites/0001/_api/link" that requires to log in into your windows account to have access.
To test I started using Postman but can't figure out how to use Windows Auth for the request.
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Hi you should use NTLM authentication
Workstation is your computer hostname and domain is your domain used for windows authetication you can see it in internet explore when authentication pop up comes up
In username passord fields provide the credential you use for login to system
I'm developing a blazor web application that will use windows authentication. The web application requires data from another web service. Basic authentication is required on the web service. The web application and web service are in the same domain using the same domain for authentication. Is there a way to take the windows auth credential that the web application will possess and convert it to the basic auth required by the web service?
I am aware that the windows auth credential does not contain the password and basic auth needs a password. I cannot change the authentication scheme of the web service. I cannot spin up a new instance of the web service with a different authentication mechanism. I can't use basic authentication for the web application. The web service requires that the web application connects with it using the logged in users credentials for logging purposes ie. can't just use a service account to connect to the web service. I am open to using a different authentication mechanism for the web application with comparable security to windows auth if it will work, SSO preferred.
I believe this is technically infeasible but would welcome any evidence to the contrary.
I'm currently have a selfhosted WCF REST service. Using WebHttpBinding and Windows authentication, is it possible at all to get the password or do I have to use Basic authentication?
You can't get the user password using Windows auth - since the authentication is done via a third party (usually the active directory), no passwords are exchanged between the client and the service, only a token which is issued by the AD.
Being able to get the password using Windows auth would also be a huge security risk - in intranets clients (such as browsers) usually don't prompt the user for credentials when authenticating themselves to a server which requires that kind of authentication. You wouldn't want your password to be handed over to a service which you happen to visit that uses that kind of authentication.
I have a iPad application. In which I am making a proxy object using WCF data services(OData).
While initializing an object I am getting authentication required error. My service is authentication configured as windows authentication on the IIS 7.0.
Can anyone help me, How can I send windows credentials to get access of all the verbs (POST,GET,DELETE and etc.) ?
You must configure your service for anonymous access (or Basic authentication) if you want to access it from iPad. Windows authentication is only for devices which are part of your windows domain (or for local authentication).
I like to use wcf (windows communication foundation) with windows authentication.
Do I need Active directory for this purpose?
How the server knows about the identity of the client?
If someone can found out the pass of the client that is using the wcf services, can he create the same user name on different computer and use the password to access the wcf services ?
Yes, if you want to use Windows authentication, you need Active Directory as the source where the user gets validated.
The way this happens is by means of a user "token" - when your client logs into his PC with his Windows credentials, the login process will check with AD whether the user is legit and issue a "token". This token is then used in calls to a WCF service to determine who it is that is calling the service.