ASP.NET MVC - Set custom IIdentity or IPrincipal

Question

I need to do something fairly simple: in my ASP.NET MVC application, I want to set a custom IIdentity / IPrincipal. Whichever is easier / more suitable. I want to extend the

Answer 1

MVC provides you with the OnAuthorize method that hangs from your controller classes. Or, you could use a custom action filter to perform authorization. MVC makes it pretty easy to do. I posted a blog post about this here. http://www.bradygaster.com/post/custom-authentication-with-mvc-3.0