Windows Credential Provider with C#

c# .net credential-providers
Paul Liebrand picture Paul Liebrand · Apr 18, 2013 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

Has anyone successfully created a custom Windows Credential Provider in C#? The samples that are in the Windows SDK are all in C++. Some initial searching I have done indicates it may be possible but cannot seem to find anyone who has confirmed it.

Answer

rifaco picture rifaco · May 19, 2013

+1 for pgina. As Cody says, there is no managed API you can use to make a Credential Provider, and if you want to go the pInvoke route it will probably take more of your time troubleshooting pInvoke issues than figuring out the Credential Provider.

Where pGina can help you is that it has a nice Plugin architecture and the Plugins are written in managed code. See the chart here. pGina handles the communication with LogonUI (native code) but relies on the plugins (managed) to do the actual authentication, which is probably what you want to control (otherwise you probably wouldn't need your own credential provider).

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