Authentication samples for ASP.NET Core

By Rick Anderson

The ASP.NET Core repository contains the following authentication samples (main branch):

• Claims transformation
• Cookie authentication
• Custom authorization failure response
• Custom policy provider - IAuthorizationPolicyProvider
• Dynamic authentication schemes and options
• External claims
• Selecting between cookie and another authentication scheme based on the request
• Restricts access to static files

Obtain and run the samples

The sample links provided in this article provide samples for the upcoming release of ASP.NET Core. To obtain a sample for the current release or a prior release, perform the following steps:

• Select the release branch of the ASP.NET Core repository. For example, the release/5.0 branch contains the samples for the ASP.NET Core 5.0 release.
• Clone or download the ASP.NET Core repository.
• On your local system, verify installation of the .NET Core SDK version matching the clone of the ASP.NET Core repository.
• Navigate to a sample in aspnetcore/src/Security/samples folder and run the sample with the dotnet run command.