ASP.Net Identity

 ASP.Net Identity

Asp.Net Identity

What is ASP.Net Identity?

ASP.NET Identity could also be a membership system for authentication and authorization of users by building an ASP.NET application.

ASP.NET Identity allows developers to their websites to use social identity providers for authorization and authentication.

ASP.NET identity allows you to feature customized login/logout functionality and customized profile features that make it easy to customize the logged-in user data.

What are the Features of ASP.Net Identity?

1.   Two-Factor Authentication:  

Two Factor authentication need your username and password alongside a One-Time Password(OTP). The One-Time-Password is usually a hardware token, mobile, or PIN. 

Whenever the user logs into an account they need to travel through 2FA, Username, and Password next, another could also be a hardware token that generates one-time words for the second stage of the login process. whenever the password generated by the token will b unique and changes for each short duration time.        

2.  Account Lockout : 

 If the password of the two-factor code entered incorrectly by the user, after some specific attempts which can be configured by the developer his or her account goes to be locked for a selected period of some time. Developers can disable this feature.   

3 . Account Confirmation :  

ASP.NET Identity allows verifying the account through the e-mail of the user. Most of the websites are having this feature to verify their accounts through email. It also prevents fictitious accounts from being created.

4. Password Reset :  

It enables the user to reset the password if they have to be forgotten..

5. Enhanced Password Validator :

Password validator gives you more control over the minimum length of the password and mandatory signs.

What is the goal of ASP.Net Identity to developed?

1. Persistence control :

By default, the system stores the user information within the database. ASP.NET Identity uses the entity framework code first to implement all of its persistence mechanism. 

Common tasks like changing table names or changing the data kind of primary keys are simple to undertake to try to once you've got control of the database schema. 

 It's easy to attach different storage mechanisms like Share Point, Azure Storage service, NoSQL databases, etc., without having to throw System.NotImplementedExceptions exceptions.

2. Unit testability :

ASP.NET Identity makes web applications more unit to see. you'll write unit tests as parts of the applications by using ASP.NET Identity.

3. Role provider :

There are roles within the applications to which you gave access for the roles of the particular parts by the access you'll easily create roles like “Admin” and Add users to roles.

4. Claims Based :

ASP.NET Identity supports Claims-Based authentication, Users identity is represented as a group of claims. Developers allowed by claims to be tons more expressive in describing a user's identity than roles allow.

5. Social Login Provider :

Users can store the info in your application by adding social logins like Microsoft accounts, Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

6. Owin Integration :

ASP.NET authentication is now supported by OWIN middleware which will be used on any OWIN-based host. ASP.NET Identity doesn't have any dependency on System. Web. it's a totally compliant OWIN framework and may be utilized in an OWIN hosted application. 

ASP.NET Identity uses OWIN authentication for login/logout of users on the website. this suggests that rather than using FormsAuthentication to get the cookie, the appliance uses OWIN CookieAuthentication.