How to add support for Federated authentication and claims to Sitecore?

How to add support for Federated authentication and claims to Sitecore?

Upon login, there is an Authentication manager which has all login and user management logic abstracted away. The FormsAuthentication Manager, which has been registered in the web.config, is injected in the Authentication Manager as an Authentication Provider.

What happens if there is no Sitecore user identity?

At this point, there is still no Sitecore user identity. The result: The user gets redirected back to the login page, the authentication challenge will not be triggered, as the claims cookie is available. Right now we are are missing logic to do an actual “Sitecore user login”. There are bootstrap options to do this:

How does Sitecore form authentication challenge work with OWIN?

This attribute does not cause a Sitecore Forms authentication challenge, but a plain ASP.Net authentication challenge, the one that has been configured with OWIN. The OWIN middleware handles the RST token and sets the claimcookie and sets the current identity on Thread.CurrentPrincipal and HttpContext.Current.User.

Why is Azure AD not working with Sitecore?

Now in sitecore 9.1 Initial release when I click on ‘Sign-in with Azure Active Directory” its redirecting to Microsoft login page and also validating the user successfully, but once redirecting to my sitecore page its not opening the dashboard or not logging to site core site, its because the user is not creating in sitecore.

How does ADFS handle RST in Sitecore?

The RST that is posted to Sitecore by ADFS, needs to be handled. At the moment of writing, there is a PreProcessRequest processor, which handles form posts to Sitecore, the SuppressFormValidation processor.

Which is the default authentication provider for Sitecore?

The Sitecore architecture. Basically, the default user management implementation for Sitecore, is a custom Forms Authentication Provider, which makes use of the default ASP.Net Forms Authentication implementation. Under the hood, these users are partially managed in a standard Asp.Net Membership database.