cookieauthentication not working in website

GianniDPC 14 posts 80 karma points

Aug 10, 2022 @ 11:51

CookieAuthentication seems not to be working as expected in my Umbraco 10 project. I'm using Umbraco 10.1.0.

It seems to be creating the Authentication Cookie but User.Identity.Name is always NULL.

I added this line to ConfigureServices:

services.AddAuthentication(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
            .AddCookie(options =>
            {
                options.LoginPath = "/Login";
                options.Cookie.Name = "RubioAuthCookie";
                options.ExpireTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(20);
                options.SlidingExpiration = true;
            });

and I added these lines to the Configure method:

app.UseUmbraco()
                .WithMiddleware(u =>
                {
                    u.UseBackOffice();
                    u.UseWebsite();

                    u.AppBuilder.UseAuthentication();
                    u.AppBuilder.UseAuthorization();

This is the code from within my Login action:

[Route("/Account/Login")]
public async Task<IActionResult> LoginAsync()
{
    var claims = new List<Claim>
    {
        new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, "Gianni"),
    };

    var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(claims,
        CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme);

    await HttpContext.SignInAsync(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme, new ClaimsPrincipal(identity), new AuthenticationProperties { IsPersistent = true});

    return Redirect("/");
}

What am I doing wrong or what could be causing this issue?

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Sof 1 post 71 karma points

Sep 15, 2022 @ 10:31

Hello, I just came up with the same issue. Did you maybe find a solution to this problem?

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Per Collin 1 post 21 karma points

Oct 12, 2022 @ 08:22

I'm also curious about a solution. Facing the same issue 🤔 Any news?

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Gianni Declercq 8 posts 80 karma points

Oct 12, 2022 @ 20:40

Below is some example code that should help you get started:

Add AddUserCookieAuthentication(cookieName: "MyAuthCookie") after AddComposers and before Build() in ConfigureServices (Startup.cs). The code to make this method available is below.

Also add these lines to app.UseUmbraco().WithMiddleware..

u.AppBuilder.UseAuthentication();
u.AppBuilder.UseAuthorization();

Middleware..

using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.DependencyInjection;


namespace MyProject.Extensions
{
    public static class UmbracoBuilderExtensions
    {
        public static IUmbracoBuilder AddUserCookieAuthentication(this IUmbracoBuilder builder, string cookieName)
        {
            builder.AddMemberExternalLogins(logins =>
            {
                logins.AddMemberLogin(
                    memberAuthenticationBuilder =>
                    {
                        string strSchemeName = CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;

                        memberAuthenticationBuilder.AddCookie(strSchemeName, objCookieAuthenticationOptions =>
                        {
                            objCookieAuthenticationOptions.Cookie.Name = cookieName;
                            objCookieAuthenticationOptions.LoginPath = "/";
                        });

                        builder.Services.AddAuthentication(options =>
                        {
                            options.DefaultAuthenticateScheme = strSchemeName;
                        });
                        builder.Services.AddAuthorization();
                    });
            });
            return builder;
        }
    }
}

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imadtbro 2 posts 22 karma points

1 week ago

Hi Everyone!

On my quest to add Cookie Authentication for some front end user systems, I found this thread and it has helped immensely! I was able to use the code suggested by Gianna Declercq above.

Using the code I was able to user the .Net Core Identity system to properly create claims and log a user in and out, with the cookie being properly set.

With that said, I have encountered another issue. When logging into the back office, when a front end user is logged in, the back office is broken, and I see this error in the console:

Possibly unhandled rejection: The user object is invalid, the remainingAuthSeconds is required.

I suspect it has something to do with how the front end cookie is interacting or being picked up by the back office, but I don't know what the solution is.

Has anyone seen this issue?

EDIT: We are using Umbraco 13.

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GianniDPC 14 posts 80 karma points

1 week ago

I'm not sure this is the solution but make sure when logging in or out you are using the right Authentication Scheme.

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Huw Reddick 1929 posts 6697 karma points MVP 2x c-trib

Oct 12, 2022 @ 08:26

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55128952/user-identity-name-is-null-in-cookie-authentication-in-net-core

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Shelly 9 posts 79 karma points

Oct 17, 2023 @ 11:46

Hello, you showed us how to add the authentication cookie, within the Configure method, but as I saw, when I put a debugger on it, it does not come to the break point. I understood from this link: https://cornehoskam.com/posts/umbraco-8-versus-9-dependency-injection, that startup.cs is not accessible, unless we write it as a class that implements Composer. Like this:

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using IOCDocs.NotificationHandlers;
using IOCDocs.Services;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Composing;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.DependencyInjection;
using Umbraco.Cms.Core.Notifications;
namespace IOCDocs
{
    public class MyComposer : IComposer
    {
        public void Compose(IUmbracoBuilder builder)
        {
            builder.AddNotificationHandler<ContentTypeSavedNotification, ContentTypeSavedHandler>();
            builder.Services.AddSingleton<IFooBar, Foobar>();
        }
    }
}

My question is, is there a similar way to add the authentication cookie in this manner? of Composers?

Thanks!!

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