claims

Geneva Server STS

My requirement is the claims assigned to a user are company aware so say for example User 1: is publisher for Product Manager for Company 1 but the same user is only editor for Company B. Can this be achieved through Geneva Server, or additional code needs to be written to override classes. ...

ASP.Net WCF service's Thread.CurrentPrincipal is being thrown away by some interceptor in a Federated (WIF) environment

I have a per-call WCF service that's being hosted in IIS (.svc). In the service's constructor, I set Thread.CurrentPrincipal = HttpContext.Current.User as per this article. In this case HttpContext.Current.User is of type Microsoft.IdentityModel.Claims.ClaimsPrincipal and has the claims that were sent back from my custom passive STS. Ho...

Sharepoint 2010 Claims in BDC

I would like my BDC ReadList()-operation to fetch objects based on email from a user claim. I tried using IClaimsPrincipal in a webpart, with no problem, but I can't get it to work in BDC model. Basically I would like to do something like this: ReadList() { 1. Get Claims object 2. Get email from claims object 3. Ask query with that em...

Claims-based Authentication: Are strings the essence of claims?

I've been programming with claims-based authentication for some time now with Windows Identity Foundation. It appears to me that in Windows Identity Foundation, once a user is logged in, the claims are basically strings of information that describe the user. With the old role-based authentication, I could say that a user is or is not a...

How to force ClaimProvider recalculates the claims for current user in sharepoint?

I create a custom claim provider for sharepoint, it works fine but I need to add a claim when user enter a key in specific page, I write it in my user profile database, but my question is how to make ClaimProvider recalculate the claim for current user? One way is make user sign-out so he/she need to sign in again and he/she will gain n...

How do I request additional claims from Passive STS with WIF?

Hi, I have the following: A website ASP.Net application acting as an Identity Provider (IDP STS) Federation Provider (FP STS) A Resource ASP.NET MVC WebSite acting as (RP) when trying to access a Resource in RP, it goes thru the FP STS and gets redirected to IDP STS. User puts their credentials and upon validity of that, IDP provide...