#auth

The SSO tax, in dollars: what SAML actually costs at Auth0, WorkOS, and Clerk

Our service discovery caught its own failure and switched itself off

Your OTP regex assumes six digits. Supabase magic links don't.

Peter Pistorius - Redwood SDK

Peter Pistorius discusses Redwood's evolution into a serverless React Server Components framework and his vision for personal software development.

I made a small auth server template for Deno Deploy

I've fallen in love with Deno and its Deploy service, but also OpenAuth, so I made a simple template to deploy OpenAuth to Deno Deploy, using Deno KV for storage.

Extending OpenAuth

I needed a self-hostable auth solution for the project I'm working on. OpenAuth's beautiful simplicity looked really promising. There were just a couple things I wanted adjusted, so I spent a weekend …

Graph API: getting users Active Directory group names and ids with the C# SDK

Learn how to get the Azure Active Directory group names and ids from the Graph API using the C# SDK.

Braden Sidoti - Clerk

Braden Sidoti, CTO of Clerk, breaks down authentication complexity, session management challenges, and how Clerk evolved beyond just auth.

Azure Container Apps, Easy Auth and .NET authentication

Azure Container Apps support Easy Auth. However, .NET applications run in ACAs do not recognise Easy Auth authentication. This post explains the issue and solves it.

Deep linking with Azure Static Web Apps and Easy Auth

Azure Static Web Apps does not support deep linking with authentication. This post describes how to work around this limitation.

Azure AD Claims with Static Web Apps and Azure Functions

Authorization with Azure Static Web Apps linked to Azure Functions has an issue. Azure AD app role claims are not supplied; this post will demo a workaround.

Making Easy Auth tokens survive releases on Linux Azure App Service

To prevent authentication issues during restarts or deployments, Microsoft is recommending Blob Storage for Token Cache to store and fetch tokens.

Azure App Service, Easy Auth and Roles with .NET and Microsoft.Identity.Web

The `Microsoft.Identity.Web` library has authorization issues with roles. A `IClaimsTransformation` can map claims to fix the problem.

Azure App Service, Easy Auth and Roles with .NET

"Easy Auth" in Azure App Service doesnt currently work with .NET Core and .NET due to discrepancies. Open-source middleware can help solve the issue.

Dual boot authentication with ASP.NET

The article explains how to have different authentication methods for two classes of users accessing an app. Code snippets are provided.

ASP.NET Core authentication: hard-coding a claim in development

The DevelopmentModeAuthenticationHandler allows ASP.NET Core developers to hard code user authentication claims during development, easing testing.

Cypress and Auth0

The article explains how to automate Auth0 login using Cypress, by using the auth0-js client library, and creating a custom command.

Auth0, TypeScript and ASP.NET Core

Auth0 makes authentication and authorization simple. They offer Auth-As-A-Service, quick start and easy customization of settings.

WCF - moving from Config to Code, a simple WCF service harness (plus implementing your own Authorization)

John describes his approach to developing a Windows Service-hosted WCF service/client harness, including locking down WCF authorization.

WCF Transport Windows authentication using NetTcpBinding in an Intranet environment

John explains authentication issues when migrating from .NET Remoting to WCF. The post highlights a security feature and suggests solutions.