principal – Tarik Billa

Keycloak retrieve custom attributes to KeycloakPrincipal

April 30, 2023 by Tarik

To add custom attributes you need to do three things: Add attributes to admin console Add claim mapping Access claims The first one is explained pretty good here: https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_admin/index.html#user-attributes Add claim mapping: Open the admin console of your realm. Go to Clients and open your client This only works for Settings > Access Type confidential … Read more

How should I check if a user is authenticated in MVC5?

April 13, 2023 by Tarik

There’s no difference. The only difference is that if the user is not authenticated User.Identity might be null and thus you might get a NRE, whereas with the second approach, internally there’s a check for this and is safer. Here’s how the Request.IsAuthenticated method is implemented: public bool IsAuthenticated { get { return this._context.User != … Read more