Building a forms based authentication provider
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All Forms based providers share the Username/Password/Remember Me UI shipping with the Octopus Deploy UI. To participate as a Forms based authentication provider you must:
- Host an API endpoint that:
- expects a Http POST of a LoginCommand object.
- returns a JSON representation of an IUser and a cookie, as returned by a call to IAuthCookieCreator.CreateAuthCookie.
- Implement the IAuthenticationProvider interface and have:
- GetAuthenticationProviderElement return an element with:
- a Name.
- FormsLoginEnabled = true.
- Links containing path to the API from above.
- GetAuthenticationUrls return the same API url (which is used to add APIs to an allow list when in MaintenanceMode etc).
- GetAuthenticationProviderElement return an element with:
- Implement whatever configuration storage you require.
The Octopus Deploy UsernamePasswordAuthenticaionProvider on GitHub provides a good reference point.
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