WCF Username Authentication Readme
This sample illustrates how to authenticate to ACS using a username & password and obtain access to a WCF relying party. It includes a WCF service and a WCF client as command line applications. The WCF service
requires a SAML token from the ACS username endpoint. The client follows the service binding to request a token from ACS using WS-Trust protocol with a username and password registered with ACS. The code for this sample is in the
Acs2UsernameBindingSample folder of the ACS 2.0 Samples package.
Prerequisites
To run this sample, you will need:
- To create an account at
http://windows.azure.com and create an Access Control Service namespace.
- Visual Studio 2010 (any version)
See Prerequisites
for more details. Note that it may be beneficial to walkthrough the Getting Started
sample before running this sample.
Configuring the Sample
The ACS configuration required for this sample can be performing using either the ACS management portal, or the ACS management service. Select one
of the two options below to go to the relevant section.
Option 1: Configuring via the ACS Management Portal
1. Open a browser and navigate to
http://windows.azure.com and sign in. From there, navigate to the
Service Bus, Access Control, and Caching section to configure your ACS service namespace. Once you have created a namespace, select it and click
Manage > Access Control Service at the top of the page. This should launch the following page in a new window:
2. Next, register your application with ACS by creating a relying party application. Click the
Relying Party Applications link on the main page, then select
Add and enter the following information in the subsequent form.
- In the Name field, enter "Username Binding Sample RP"
- In the Realm field, enter
http://localhost:7100/Service/Default.aspx
- In the Token encryption policy field, select "Require Encryption"
- In the Identity Providers field, uncheck any selected identity providers
When complete, click the
Save button and then navigate back to the main page.
3.
With your relying party registered, it is now time to create the rules that determine the claims that ACS will issue to your application. In this sample we will create a rule that grants any claim generated by ACS to passthrough. To do this, navigate to the
main portal page and select Rule Groups. From there, select the
Default Rule Group for Username Binding Sample. Add a new rule, similar to the following:
4. In contrast to the web site samples, this sample relies on credentials managed by ACS. The last step in configuring ACS is registering the Username
and password for the Client application to use. To configure a new username, select the
Service Identities link on the main portal page. Click the
Add link and fill out the subsequent form. For this sample, use a username of "acssample", a Credential Type of "Password", and a password of "pass@word1". Click
Save and return to the main portal page.
Option 2: Configuring via the ACS Management Service
The Visual Studio sample solution has a console application called
ConfigureSample which uses the ACS Management Service and the common helpers defined in the
Common class library. This application can be used to configure your ACS service namespace for use with this sample.
1. Update the
Common class library with information about your Service Namespace. Open
SamplesConfiguration.cs and enter your:
-
ServiceNamespace -
This is the namespace used with ACS.
-
ManagementServiceIdentityName
- This is a management service account’s Name
-
ManagementServiceIdentityKey -
This is the password associated with the management service account.
-
AcsHostUrl -
This is the host name of the ACS
2. Run the ConfigureSample application in Visual Studio, which will configure ACS to run this sample
Running the Sample
1. Open the sample in Visual Studio. The solution consists of two projects:
WcfService and WcfClient
2. If you did not do so during configuration, enter your Service Namespace details in
Common\SamplesConfiguration.cs. See step 1 of “Option 2: Configuring via the ACS Management Service” above. This file is also used by the WcfService and WcfClient projects.
3. Open the App.config in the WcfClient project.
Enter your username and password in the appropriate AppSettings elements. If needed, refer back to the
Service Identities area of the portal to obtain the username and password you previously registered. Below is a code snippet showing this area of the Client App.config file
<!-- ACS v2 configuration -->
<!-- Service configuration -->
<add key="ServiceAddress" value="http://localhost:7000/Service/Default.aspx" />
<add key="ServiceCertificateFilePath" value="..\..\..\Certificates\WcfServiceCertificate.cer"/>
<!-- Client configuration -->
<add key="ClientUsername" value="...update to your username..."/>
<add key="ClientPassword" value="...update to your password..."/>
4. Last, but not least, it is time to run the sample! Start the WcfService, then start the WcfClient. At the client, enter a string to reverse.
After entering that information, the Client console window should show output similar to the following:
