SignInManager<T>
SignInManager<T> is an ASP.NET Core Identity service that manages sign-in, sign-out, and related authentication operations for user accounts.
ASP.NET Core in Action, 3e
SignInManager<T> is an ASP.NET Core Identity service for signing users in and out and managing request authentication state.
- How it is used
- Handles user sign-in and sign-out while establishing authenticated request state through a principal and authentication cookie.
- How deep it goes
- Explains login processing from credential validation through cookie creation, but does not detail the service API methods.
- Examples
- Uses a Razor login form, database user lookup, password validation, claims creation, and encrypted-cookie persistence.
- What you can do after
- Apply via ASP.NET Core Identity to connect a login UI with credential validation and persistent authenticated requests.
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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
SignInManager is an ASP.NET Core Identity service that manages user sign-in operations.
- How it is used
- Supports AccountController authentication by providing Identity sign-in APIs through dependency injection.
- How deep it goes
- Defines its login role and injection point, but does not show a direct SignInManager call in the supplied login implementation.
- Examples
- Uses AccountController registration and login endpoints, LoginDTO validation, password checking, and JWT response generation.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via dependency injection when structuring an ASP.NET Core Identity login endpoint.
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Related concepts
- credentialuses · A credential is information or an artifact presented as evidence of an entity’s identity, qualifications, status, or authorization to access a system or resource.
- ASP.NET Core Identityused by · ASP.NET Core Identity is an extensible ASP.NET Core membership system for managing user accounts, credentials, claims, roles, authentication, and related identity data.
- ClaimsPrincipalproduces · ClaimsPrincipal is a .NET security class representing a principal through one or more identities and their associated claims.
- cookieproduces · An HTTP cookie is a small piece of data that a server asks a user agent to store and return with subsequent requests within its scope.
- databaseuses · A database is an organized collection of persistent data managed by software for storage, retrieval, querying, and modification.
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