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monibius
monibius

Reputation: 1579

SAML Authentication for a .NET Application

It should be possible to use SAML to authenticate users for any type of application (according to the spec), but the examples I have seen are cookie-based ASP.NET web-sites.

Does anyone know of an example authenticating users for, say, a Win Forms app (not using cookies)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 10367

Answers (2)

Nicholas Carey
Nicholas Carey

Reputation: 74385

SAML is a wee complicated beastie. I'm not sure I'd try to roll my own SAML SSO solution.

When we implemented SAML SSO, we used PingFederate from. It's expensive, but good. There's also some open source SAML SSO stuff about, but I can't really speak to it.

PingFederate is pretty dead simple to configure and use, although if you don't speak SAML, the learning curve will be steep until you understand the concepts, the flow and the lingo used.

Upvotes: 0

thaBadDawg
thaBadDawg

Reputation: 5230

Not quite sure what it is you are looking for. If you are looking for SAML based authentication, you can use some combination of Windows Identity Framework and WCF and AD FS. SAML is just the "language" of authentication, but unless you already have an identity provider, you need to start there first.

You can use this article to give you an idea of what the basic infrastructure looks like, and I frequently use the site leastprivilege.com for a deeper reference.

But, if the scope of your application is purely within the desktop (ie, never communicates with any services) you really don't need anything like SAML to achieve your goal. Usage of tokens like SAML are for communicating with web services where the endpoints trust the identity provider.

Upvotes: 2

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