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Data Isolation with ASP.NET Core Identity

Introduction

Finbuckle.MultiTenant has limited support for data isolation with ASP.NET Core Identity when Entity Framework Core is used as the backing store. It works similarly to Data Isolation with Entity Framework Core except Identity calls into the database instead of your own code.

See the Identity data isolation sample projects in the GitHub repository for examples on how to use Finbuckle.MultiTenant with ASP.NET Core Identity. These samples illustrates how to isolate the tenant Identity data and integrate the Identity UI to work with a route multitenant strategy.

Configuration

Configuring an Identity db context to be multitenant is identical to that of a regular db context as described in Data Isolation With Entity Framework Core with a few extra specifics to keep in mind.

The simplest approach is to derive a db context from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext (which itself derives from IdentityDbContext) and configure Identity to use the derived context.

When customizing the Identity data model, for example deriving a user entity type class from IdentityUser, to designate the customized entity type as multitenant either:

  • Add the [MultiTenant] data attribute to the entity type class, or
  • use the IsMultiTenant fluent api method in OnModelCreating after calling the base class OnModelCreating method (to ensure the Identity model exists).

If not deriving from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext make sure to implement IMultiTenantDbContext and call the appropriate extension methods as described in Data Isolation with Entity Framework Core. In this case it is required that base class OnModelCreating method is called before any multitenant extension methods.

Caveats

Internally Finbuckle.MultiTenant's EFCore functionality relies on a global query filter. Calling the Find method on an DBSet<T> bypasses this filter thus any place Identity uses this method internally is not filtered by multitenant.

Due to this limitation the Identity method UserManager<TUser>.FindByIdAsync will bypass the filter and search across all tenants in the database. The IdentityUser class uses a GUID for the user id so there is negligible risk of data spillover, however a different implementation of IdentityUser<TKey> will need to ensure global uniqueness for the user id.

Identity Options

Identity options can be configured for the IdentityOptions class as described in (Per-Tenant Options). Any option that internally relies on UserManager<TUser>.FindByIdAsync may be problematic as described above. If in doubt check the Identity source code to be sure.

The Identity option to require a unique email address per user will require email addresses be unique only within the current tenant, i.e. per-tenant options are not required for this.

Authentication

ASP.NET Core Identity cookies for authentication. It uses a slightly different method for configuring cookies, but under the hood standard ASP.NET Core authentication is used.

Finbuckle.MultiTenant can isolate Identity authentication per tenant so that user sessions are unique per tenant. See per-tenant authentication for information on how to customize authentication options per tenant.

Identity Model Customization with MultiTenantIdentityDbContext

The ASP.NET Core Identity data model relies on several types which are passed to the database context as generic parameters:

  • TUser
  • TRole
  • TKey
  • TUserClaim
  • TUserToken
  • TUserLogin
  • TRoleClaim
  • TUserRole

Default entity types exist such as the IdentityUser, IdentityRole, and IdentityUserClaim, which are commonly used as the generic parameters. The default for TKey is string. Apps can provide their own entity types for any of these by using alternative forms of the database context which take varying number of generic type parameters. Simple use-cases derive from IdentityDbContext types which require only a few generic parameters and plug in the default entity types for the rest.

Deriving an Identity database context from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext will use all of the default entity types and string for TKey. All entity types will be configured as multitenant.

Deriving from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext<TUser> will use the provided parameter for TUser and the defaults for the rest. TUser will not be configured as multitenant by default, and it is up to the programmer to do so as described above. All other entity types will be configured as multitenant.

Deriving from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext<TUser, TRole, TKey> will use the provided parameters for <TUser>, TRole, and TKey and the defaults for the rest. TUser and TRole will not be configured as multitenant by default, and it is up to the programmer to do so as described above if desired. All other entity types will be configured as multitenant.

Deriving from MultiTenantIdentityDbContext<TUser, TRole, TKey, TUserClaim, TUserRole, TUserLogin, TRoleClaim, TUserToken> will only use provided parameters. No entity types will be configured as multitenant, and it is up to the programmer to do so as described above if desired.

When providing non-default parameters it is recommended that the provided entity types have the [MultiTenant] attribute or call the IsMultiTenant builder extension method for each type in OnModelCreating after calling the base class OnModelCreating.