No authenticationScheme was specified, and there was no DefaultChallengeScheme found with default authentification and custom authorization

Question

I have a .NET Core 2.0 app and have a problem with authorization. I want to use custom authorization with special requests. Header and standard default authentication. First, I add configuration in Startup.cs:

public IServiceProvider ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    // ...
    services.AddAuthorization(options =>
    {
        options.AddPolicy(DefaultAuthorizedPolicy, policy =>
        {
            policy.Requirements.Add(new TokenAuthRequirement());
        });
    });
    services.AddSingleton<IAuthorizationHandler, AuthTokenPolicy>();
    // ...
}

AuthTokenPolicy.cs:

public class AuthTokenPolicy : AuthorizationHandler<TokenAuthRequirement>
{   
    protected override Task HandleRequirementAsync(AuthorizationHandlerContext context, TokenAuthRequirement requirement)
    {
        var filterContext = context.Resource as AuthorizationFilterContext;
        var response = filterContext.HttpContext.Response;
        try
        {
            // some validation code

            var isValidToken = isValidTokenTask.Result;
            if (!isValidToken)
            {
                response.StatusCode = 401;
                return Task.CompletedTask;
            }

            response.StatusCode = 200;
            context.Succeed(requirement);
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            return Task.CompletedTask;
        }
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }
}

and in HomeController.cs:

[Authorize(Policy = Startup.DefaultAuthorizedPolicy)]
public async Task<IActionResult> IsVisible()

If I use the wrong request.header in AuthTokenPolicy I see it, but in the logs I see this error:

System.InvalidOperationException: No authenticationScheme was specified, and there was no DefaultChallengeScheme found.\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationService.d__11.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ChallengeResult.d__14.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Internal.ResourceInvoker.d__19.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Internal.ResourceInvoker.d__17.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Internal.ResourceInvoker.d__15.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder.RouterMiddleware.d__4.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.StatusCodePagesMiddleware.d__3.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at React.AspNet.BabelFileMiddleware.d__5.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.AuthenticationMiddleware.d__6.MoveNext()\r\n--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---\r\n at System.Runtime.ExceptionServices.ExceptionDispatchInfo.Throw()\r\n at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task task)\r\n at core.common.Middleware.LoggingMiddleware.d__3.MoveNext() in D:\Dev\microservicePDP\Template\core.common\Middleware\LoggingMiddleware.cs:line 72

After reading Migrating Authentication and Identity to ASP.NET Core 2.0 I've added this code in startup.cs

Quotation from the article :

services.AddAuthentication(options => 
{
    options.DefaultScheme = CookieAuthenticationDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
    options.DefaultChallengeScheme = OpenIdConnectDefaults.AuthenticationScheme;
});

Define a default scheme in 2.0 if one of the following conditions is true: You want the user to be automatically signed in You use the [Authorize] attribute or authorization policies without specifying schemes

I added AuthenticationScheme and DefaultChallengeScheme in ConfigureServices(). It didn't help, the same error here. I've tried to use app.UseAuthentication(); in the Startup.Configure() method, with no results.

How can I use a custom authorization without authentication?

Answer 1

Do not use authorization instead of authentication. I should get whole access to service all clients with header. The working code is :

public class TokenAuthenticationHandler : AuthenticationHandler<TokenAuthenticationOptions> 
{
    public IServiceProvider ServiceProvider { get; set; }

    public TokenAuthenticationHandler (IOptionsMonitor<TokenAuthenticationOptions> options, ILoggerFactory logger, UrlEncoder encoder, ISystemClock clock, IServiceProvider serviceProvider) 
        : base (options, logger, encoder, clock) 
    {
        ServiceProvider = serviceProvider;
    }

    protected override Task<AuthenticateResult> HandleAuthenticateAsync () 
    {
        var headers = Request.Headers;
        var token = "X-Auth-Token".GetHeaderOrCookieValue (Request);

        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty (token)) {
            return Task.FromResult (AuthenticateResult.Fail ("Token is null"));
        }           

        bool isValidToken = false; // check token here

        if (!isValidToken) {
            return Task.FromResult (AuthenticateResult.Fail ($"Balancer not authorize token : for token={token}"));
        }

        var claims = new [] { new Claim ("token", token) };
        var identity = new ClaimsIdentity (claims, nameof (TokenAuthenticationHandler));
        var ticket = new AuthenticationTicket (new ClaimsPrincipal (identity), this.Scheme.Name);
        return Task.FromResult (AuthenticateResult.Success (ticket));
    }
}

Startup.cs :

#region Authentication
services.AddAuthentication (o => {
    o.DefaultScheme = SchemesNamesConst.TokenAuthenticationDefaultScheme;
})
.AddScheme<TokenAuthenticationOptions, TokenAuthenticationHandler> (SchemesNamesConst.TokenAuthenticationDefaultScheme, o => { });
#endregion

And mycontroller.cs

[Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = SchemesNamesConst.TokenAuthenticationDefaultScheme)]
public class MainController : BaseController
{ ... }

I can't find TokenAuthenticationOptions now, but it was empty. I found the same class PhoneNumberAuthenticationOptions :

public class PhoneNumberAuthenticationOptions : AuthenticationSchemeOptions
{
    public Regex PhoneMask { get; set; }// = new Regex("7\\d{10}");
}

You should define static class SchemesNamesConst. Something like:

public static class SchemesNamesConst
{
    public const string TokenAuthenticationDefaultScheme = "TokenAuthenticationScheme";
}