Trouble getting ClaimsPrincipal populated when using EasyAuth to authenticate against AAD on Azure App Service in a Asp.Net Core web app

Question

We have a web app built on Asp.Net core. It doesn\'t contain any authentication middleware configured in it.

We are hosting on Azure App Service and using the Authen

Answer 1

You can give this library a try. I faced a similar problem and created this to simplify the use.

https://github.com/dasiths/NEasyAuthMiddleware

Azure App Service Authentication (EasyAuth) middleware for ASP.NET CORE with fully customizable components with support for local debugging

It hydrates the HttpContext.User by registering a custom authentication handler. To make things easier when running locally, it even has the ability to use a json file to load mocked claims.