ASP.NET Identity “Role-based” Claims

Question

I understand that I can use claims to make statements about a user:

var claims = new List();
claims.Add(new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, \"Peter\"));
         


        

Answer 1

You need to specify the Role in a claim with a type of ClaimsType.Role and then specify the claim type that contains the role in the ClaimsIdentity as shown below.

var claimsIdentity = new ClaimsIdentity(new[]
{
    new Claim(ClaimTypes.Email, "peter@domain.com"),
    new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, "Peter"),
    new Claim(ClaimTypes.Role, "SuperAdmin"),
},
"ApplicationCookie", ClaimTypes.Email, ClaimTypes.Role);

This will then allow you to use the [Authorize(Roles = "SuperAdmin")] attribute in your controllers.