How do I use Authentication in simple WCF publish subscribe.

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I have a publish - subscribe WCF Duplex model using NetTCpBinding (session mode). When a user is subscribing - I would like to pass in NetworkCredential - but I can't as it will not send the password and instead I see a '' (BLANK - Nada - nothing), but the username of course is there.. of course (MS! aargh).

I have a Simple Login and Authorization I want to do so they must be a valid user stored in the WCF Service Hosts private Database. (NOT a windows user etc..) I am not intending to send this info in the clear but I sure like the nice Credential Object - should I just simply use string Username, string Password, string Domain and create the Credential if I need to use it later. How will my Username and Password Data be encrypted - my NetTCpBinidng is included here as I am not sure how to configure that - the Host and the Client can be on different machines - and also can be on different networks.
Any help with this is Appreciated. Thank you.

C#

public void Subscribe(NetworkCredential credential)
{
    IGenericDataRepository<Users> repositorySingle = new GenericDataRepository<Users>(RepositoryConnection);
    Users UserList = repositorySingle.GetSingle(d => d.Name == credential.UserName && d.Password == credential.Password);
}

public NetTcpBinding SetNetTCPBinding()
{
    NetTcpBinding binding = new NetTcpBinding(SecurityMode.Transport);
    binding.Security.Mode = SecurityMode.Transport;
    binding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.None;
    binding.Security.Transport.ClientCredentialType = TcpClientCredentialType.None;
    binding.Security.Transport.ProtectionLevel = ProtectionLevel.None;
}

Posted 24-Aug-15 8:49am

stixoffire

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stixoffire · Answer 1 · 2015-08-25T05:07:00

Since I could not pass in the Credential, I used the channel factory ClientCredential Users field - my intellisense showed it was {get; set;} so I tried to use it and immediately got an exception declaring the field was readonly (and I said hogwash!). So I ended up with code like this in order to set it:

C#

ClientCredentials credentialBehaviour = NetPipeFactory.Endpoint.Behaviors.Find<ClientCredentials>();
credentialBehaviour.UserName.UserName = credentials.UserName;
credentialBehaviour.UserName.Password = credentials.Password;
// I found I could also do this..
credentialBehaviour.Windows.ClientCredential = Credential;