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c#azureazure-active-directoryasp.net-identityasp.net-core-2.0
Bob.at.Indigo.Health
Bob.at.Indigo.Health

Reputation: 11895

Azure AD as an "external provider"?

I'm trying to build a simple ASP.Net Core 2.2 web app that allows AzureAD as an "external provider". I'm doing this in Visual Studio 2019.

As a super-simple demo project, I started by creating a new project that uses Azure AD as the login provider:

  1. Select ASP.NET Core Web Application
  2. Select Web Application (Model-View-Controller)
  3. Change Authentication to "Work or School Accounts". It automatically filled in my domain name (because I'm logged in to VS)

This creates a web application set up to enforce user authentication on all pages. When I run the application, it goes to Azure AD and logs me in prior to navigating to the /home page.

Recall that I said I wanted to add Azure AD as an external provider. So I found this line in Startup.cs:

services.AddAuthentication(AzureADDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
    .AddAzureAD(options => Configuration.Bind("AzureAd", options));

and I removed the default authentication scheme to prevent the auto-login, like this:

services.AddAuthentication()
    .AddAzureAD(options => Configuration.Bind("AzureAd", options));

Now, when I run the app, it navigates to the Login page, and it gives me a big blue button offering to let me log in with Azure Active Directory. But clicking on that button does not log me in.

So I scaffolded the Identity pages, and I set a breakpoint at the ExternalLogin GET routine. Sure enough, clicking the big blue button finds its way there. Stepping through the code, I see that the call to _signInManager.GetExternalLoginInfoAsync() returns null.

I'm stuck. Apparently, the (undocumented) configuration magic doesn't set something up correctly to satisfy the call to GetExternalLoginInfoAsync.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1463

Answers (1)

Nan Yu
Nan Yu

Reputation: 27538

The scenario is you are using asp.net identity with Azure AD login as external identity provider .

You should set IdentityConstants.ExternalScheme as the signin schema of Azure AD authentication , so that you can get the external user information with _signInManager.GetExternalLoginInfoAsync() :

services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
        options.UseSqlServer(
            Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
services.AddDefaultIdentity<IdentityUser>()
    .AddDefaultUI(UIFramework.Bootstrap4)
    .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();

services.AddAuthentication(AzureADDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
.AddAzureAD(options => Configuration.Bind("AzureAd", options));

services.Configure<OpenIdConnectOptions>(AzureADDefaults.OpenIdScheme, options => {
    options.SignInScheme= IdentityConstants.ExternalScheme;

    //other config
});

Then you can scaffold the asp.net identity and modify to fit your requirement , in any page trigger external login(OnPost function in ExternalLogin.cshtml.cs) as the default template("big blue button") does .

Upvotes: 1

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