asp.net-identity-2

I am migrating users from a legacy user store to ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in my ASP.NET 5.0 web application. I have a means of verifying legacy hashes, but I want to upgrade them at login-time to ASP.NET Identity 2.0 hashes. I've created a custom IPasswordHasher that is able to detect and verify legacy hashes, and return PasswordVerificationResult.SuccessRehashNeeded at the appropriate time. (If it detects that the hash is not legacy, it simply falls through to the built-in ASP.NET Identity hash verification.) However, returning PasswordVerificationResult.SuccessRehashNeeded doesn't seem to cause

If my Gmail account has Access for less secure apps disabled , then my application can't send emails through this account . Instead I get " The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required " exception. Here Google explains that by disabling Access for less secure apps , only apps that use modern security standards can sign in . What are those modern security standards my code needs to implement and can you show me how to implement them with an example ( not sure if it matters, but my app and Gmail account

This has to be simple, but I'm going bug-eyed trying to find the answer. How does a controller action get a reference to the per-request ApplicationDbContext that was stashed in the Owin pipeline? EDIT: Ok, I think I'm getting closer... or maybe not... All of my Googling seems to lead to this blog post , which sez to use: var dbContext = context.Get<ApplicationDbContext>(); where context is apparently an instance of Microsoft.Owin.IOwinContext . So I tried: var db = HttpContext.GetOwinContext().Get<ApplicationDbContext>(); But the Get<T> method requires a string key parameter. :( And the

I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 Application which uses Identity 2.0 for authentication/authorisation. Now I want to provide access to the data in my web application to my Android Application via Web Api 2.0. My question is: How to control authorize/authenticate the access of my android application? On Android side I use "org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate" and add this HTTP header to my request: HttpAuthentication authHeader = new HttpBasicAuthentication("username", "password"); HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders(); requestHeaders.setAuthorization(authHeader); HttpEntity<?>