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Identity

This topic is important to me because I want to be able to create an experience in my web applications that apply authentication.

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Intro to Identity

Identity Demystified

Intro to Identity Notes

Its an API that supports UI login functionality

Manages users,passwords, profile data, roles, claims, tokens, email confirmation, and more!

Its configured using a SQL server DB to store all the data.

This is how we add authentication!

Step by Step

1. Add Identity to Your Project
   • Install the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity NuGet package in your ASP.NET Core project.
2. Configure Identity in Startup.cs
   • In the ConfigureServices method, configure Identity services, including user and role settings.
3. Database Setup
   • Identity data is stored in a database. Configure a database context and migrations to create the necessary tables.
4. User Registration and Login
   • Use the Identity APIs to handle user registration and authentication.
5. Authorization
   • Implement role-based or claims-based authorization using the [Authorize] attribute.

Identity Demystified

Source

This site breaks down whats going on in the breakdown for Identity.

• Understanding authentication vs. authorization.
• Authentication schemes and handlers.
• Various authentication methods: cookies, JWT, OAuth.

• Policy-based authorization.

• ASP.NET Core uses authentication middleware to handle authentication and authorization.
• The blog explains how to add authentication middleware to the pipeline.

Things I want to know more about

I want to understand how complicated this is to add to my own projects, I want to be good at doing it.

I want to learn more about the different libraries that can do authentication, if there is any.