Custom form authentication / Authorization scheme in ASP.net MVC - asp.net

Question

I am trying to create a custom authentication scheme in ASP.NET MVC using form authentication. The idea that I might have different areas on the site that will be managed - approver are and general user area, and these will use different login pages, and so forth. So this is what I want to happen.
User access restricted page (right now I have it protected with a customer AuthorizeAttribute)
User is redirected to a specific login page (not the one from Web.config).
User credentials are verified (via custom databse scheme) and user logs in.
Would really appreciate any help with this!!!
This is what I what I have so far, and it doesn't work:
public class AdministratorAccountController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Login()
{
return View("Login");
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Login(AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
if (model.UserName == "admin" && model.Password == "pass") // This will be pulled from DB etc
{
var ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, // version
model.UserName, // user name
DateTime.Now, // create time
DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(30), // expire time
false, // persistent
""); // user data
var strEncryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);
var cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, strEncryptedTicket);
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl))
{
return Redirect(returnUrl);
}
else
{
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
}
else
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
}
// If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
return View(model);
}
[AdministratorAuthorize]
public ActionResult MainMenu()
{
return View();
}
public class AdministratorAuthorizeAttribute : AuthorizeAttribute
{
protected override bool AuthorizeCore(HttpContextBase httpContext)
{
var authenCookie = httpContext.Request.Cookies.Get(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName);
if (authenCookie == null) return false;
var ticket = FormsAuthentication.Decrypt(authenCookie.Value);
var id = new FormsIdentity(ticket);
var astrRoles = ticket.UserData.Split(new[] { ',' });
var principal = new GenericPrincipal(id, astrRoles);
httpContext.User = principal;
return true;
}
protected override void HandleUnauthorizedRequest(AuthorizationContext filterContext)
{
var model = new AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel();
var viewData = new ViewDataDictionary(model);
filterContext.Result = new ViewResult { ViewName = "Login", ViewData = viewData };
}
}
}

Answer 1

I used a combination of code suggested by minus4 and my own code above to create this simplified scenario that might help someone else. I added some comments about things that confused me at first.
public class AdministratorAccountController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Login()
{
return View("Login");
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Login(AdministratorAccountModels.LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
// Here you would call a service to process your authentication
if (model.UserName == "admin" && model.Password == "pass")
{
// * !!! *
// Creating a FromsAuthenticationTicket is what
// will set RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated to True
// in the AdminAuthorize attribute code below
// * !!! *
var ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(1, // version
model.UserName, // user name
DateTime.Now, // create time
DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(30), // expire time
false, // persistent
""); // user data, such as roles
var strEncryptedTicket = FormsAuthentication.Encrypt(ticket);
var cookie = new HttpCookie(FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName, strEncryptedTicket);
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
// Redirect back to the page you were trying to access
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(returnUrl))
{
return Redirect(returnUrl);
}
else
{
return RedirectToAction("Index", "Home");
}
}
else
{
ModelState.AddModelError("", "The user name or password provided is incorrect.");
}
// If we got this far, something failed, redisplay form
return View(model);
}
[AdminAuthorize]
public ActionResult MainMenu()
{
return View();
}
public class AdminAuthorize : ActionFilterAttribute
{
public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
{
if (!filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
// Redirect to the needed login page
// This can be pulled from config file or anything else
filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Redirect("/AdministratorAccount/Login?ReturnUrl="
+ HttpUtility.UrlEncode(filterContext.HttpContext.Request.RawUrl));
}
base.OnActionExecuting(filterContext);
}
}
}

Answer 2

okay here you go The Code
in there you have ActionFilters folder ( AuthAccess.cs)
Plugins Folder (security.cs (encrypt/decrypt cookie), SessionHandler.cs (all matters of login))
Controllers folder (BaseController.cs, and exampleController (show you how to use)
and the loginTable SQL file.
i use mysql so you may need to amend, also i use subsonic so my model would come from there
and would be in the empty models folder.
really simple to use will leave it up for a while for you, enjoy
nope cookie model is here sorry:
using System;
namespace TestApp.Models
{
public class CookieModel
{
public string CurrentGuid { get; set; }
public DateTime LoginTime { get; set; }
public Int32 UserLevel { get; set; }
public Int32 LoginID { get; set; }
public bool isValidLogin { get; set; }
public string realUserName { get; set; }
public string emailAddress { get; set; }
}
}

Answer 3

Isn't this what roles are for?
Have a look at asp.net mvc authorization using roles or have a look at roles in general

Answer 4

i tackled this one before i have a class i use for login
routines are login, read cookie, check cookie and they have a model that contains
name, email, id, userlevel
then you just have your own custom actionFilter
eg [CustomAuth(MinAllowedLevel=10)]
i use a baseclass for all my controllers so i can have an easier link to
all my session content and can then get info like so
var model = pictures.all().where(x => x.userid == users.ReadCookie.userID)
i will bob up the code tommorow if you want for you when im back on UK daytime
say 10 hrs i will let you have the class for all the session stuff and the
custom action filter that you can use, then all you need is a logins table with a userlevel field, best with levels of 10,20,30,40 incase you need a level between 1 and 2