/SitecoreFederatedLogin

Primary LanguageC#

This solution contains a OWIN based federated login solution for sitecore. It's by no means production ready, but it might be an interesting solution.

to install:

  • add the following node to your connectionstrings.config:
<add name="AuthSessionStoreContext" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Data Source=.\;Initial Catalog=WSFedTokens;Integrated Security=False;User ID=sa;Password=xxxxx;"/>
  • Database connection notes:
    • it creates a new database when it's needed, login tokens will be stored in this database
    • Note that you should replace the 'Data Source' value with your database server instance. Copy this part from your 'core' database connection string.
  • Install controller renderings:
    • Open up Content Editor on the master database and navigate to /sitecore/layout/Renderings
    • Create a folder named 'Owin'
    • Create a controller rendering "Login" - Controller: "Auth" - Controller Action: "Index"
    • Create a controller rendering "Logout" - Controller: "Auth" - Controller Action: "Logout"
  • Create a page in the root of your site called "Login" and place the login rendering on this page.
    • This page is used to login. It requires this path, because of some pipeline extension
    • Ensure you specify a valid placeholder. For example, if using the default Sitecore sample layout, use the placeholder 'main'
  • Create a page in the root of your site called "Logout" and place the Logout rendering on this page.
    • Ensure you specify a valid placeholder. For example, if using the default Sitecore sample layout, use the placeholder 'main'
  • Modify your startup.cs to include your own hostnames. If there is just one site, the pipeline branching is not needed
    • MetadataAddress: This is where your login metadata resides in your STS provider.
    • Wtrealm: This is your domain that will be accepting users and will be requesting tokens
    • Wreply: This is the full URL to the login page you created in your site.
  • Update Sitecore references to match to your current version of Sitecore
    • Note that references to Tracker.Current.Context do not compile in 8.2 (and some other versions of Sitecore 8). These should be updated to Sitecore.Context.Session to allow the project to compile.
  • Deploy the files and compiled code to your website.
  • Update the Web.config (see sample Web.config for copy-paste values):
    • Add entityFramework section definition at the top of the Web.config
    <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
    • Add entityFramework section at the bottom of the Web.config
      <entityFramework>
  <defaultConnectionFactory type="System.Data.Entity.Infrastructure.LocalDbConnectionFactory, EntityFramework">
    <parameters>
      <parameter value="mssqllocaldb" />
    </parameters>
  </defaultConnectionFactory>
  <providers>
    <provider invariantName="System.Data.SqlClient" type="System.Data.Entity.SqlServer.SqlProviderServices, EntityFramework.SqlServer" />
  </providers>
</entityFramework>
    • Add assembly binding for System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt:
        <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity name="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" culture="neutral" />
      <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.0.20622.1351" newVersion="4.0.20622.1351" />
    </dependentAssembly>
  • If there are any questions: please feel free to contact me.