Context.User always null with basic authentication in ASP.NET vNext - asp.net

Question

I'm working on writing a simple login page + SignalR chat room for my website with vNext beta8. Unfortunately, I'm having a very difficult time understanding how claims and authentication work.
All I am trying to do is authenticate a user and set Context.User to their identity, so it can be accessed in SignalR. With the way I have it now, though, Context.User is null everywhere, so SignalR isn't even the meat of this question.
Here's the relevant bits of code for this issue:
Startup.cs
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddMvc();
services.AddSession();
services.AddCaching();
services.AddSignalR();
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseSession();
app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
routes.MapRoute(
name: "default",
template: "{controller}/{action}/{id?}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index" });
});
app.UseSignalR();
}
Login Web API controller method with default values provided, skipping password/authentication checks, and setting the session, which works. LoginUserInfo is just a small class to receive a username/password for logging in.
[HttpPost]
public string Login(LoginUserInfo info)
{
kUser user = new kUser();
user.Name = "Test user";
//This is where I am completely missing the point of something
Context.User = new ClaimsPrincipal(user);
}
kUser - this class is incomplete, I'm assuming that AuthenticationType and IsAuthenticated don't come into affect here, since the exception is never thrown.
[Serializable]
public class kUser : IIdentity
{
public ObjectId Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string AuthenticationType
{
get { return "MongoDB"; }
}
public bool IsAuthenticated
{
get
{
//If ID exists in database
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
}
Research leads me to many different ways to accomplish setting Context.User and having it available across the entire application. Some guides point to FormsAuthentication, which doesn't seem to exist in ASP.NET 5, some talk about setting user IDs to each thread, and some detail how to write an entire service provider for authentication.
All I want is an extremely basic login procedure - no Remember Me style cookies, nothing fancy. Just type in username/password, and the server remembers you for your session. Where am I going wrong, and what am I missing?

Answer 1

You need to do something like this
var claims = new[] { new Claim("name", authUser.Username), new Claim(ClaimTypes.Role, "Admin") };
var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme);
Context.Authentication.SignIn(CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme, new ClaimsPrincipal(identity));
More details - https://github.com/anuraj/CookieAuthMVCSample
I didn't verified the code with latest runtime.