ASP.net Identity Disable User

Question

Using the new ASP.net Identity in MVC 5, How do we disable a user from logging in? I don't want to delete them, maybe just disable their account for a time period.

Does anyone have any ideas on this as I don't see a status column or anything on the ASPNetUsers table.

Answer 1

You can have a new class, which should be derived from IdentityUser class. YOu can add a boolean property in the new class and can use this new property of take care per check for login process. I also done it pretty well. I might wanna take a look at : blog

Answer 2

UserManager.RemovePasswordAsync("userId") will effectively disable a user. If the user has no password he will not be able to log in. You will need to set a new password to enable the user again.

Answer 3

Update: As CountZero points out, if you're using v2.1+, then you should try and use the lockout functionality they added first, before trying the solution below. See their blog post for a full sample: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/08/05/announcing-rtm-of-asp-net-identity-2-1-0.aspx

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Version 2.0 has the IUserLockoutStore interface that you can use to lockout users, but the downside is that there is no OOB functionality to actually leverage it beyond the pass-through methods exposed by the UserManager class. For instance, it would be nice if it would actually increment the lockout count as a part of the standard username/password verification process. However, it's fairly trivial to implement yourself.

Step #1: Create a custom user store that implements IUserLockoutStore.

// I'm specifying the TKey generic param here since we use int's for our DB keys
// you may need to customize this for your environment
public class MyUserStore : IUserLockoutStore<MyUser, int>
{
    // IUserStore implementation here

    public Task<DateTimeOffset> GetLockoutEndDateAsync(MyUser user)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task SetLockoutEndDateAsync(MyUser user, DateTimeOffset lockoutEnd)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task<int> IncrementAccessFailedCountAsync(MyUser user)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task ResetAccessFailedCountAsync(MyUser user)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task<int> GetAccessFailedCountAsync(MyUser user)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task<bool> GetLockoutEnabledAsync(MyUser user)
    {
        //..
    }

    public Task SetLockoutEnabledAsync(MyUser user, bool enabled)
    {
        //..
    }
}

Step #2: Instead of UserManager, use the following class in your login/logout actions, passing it an instance of your custom user store.

public class LockingUserManager<TUser, TKey> : UserManager<TUser, TKey>
    where TUser : class, IUser<TKey> 
    where TKey : IEquatable<TKey> 
{
    private readonly IUserLockoutStore<TUser, TKey> _userLockoutStore;

    public LockingUserManager(IUserLockoutStore<TUser, TKey> store)
        : base(store)
    {
        if (store == null) throw new ArgumentNullException("store");

        _userLockoutStore = store;
    }

    public override async Task<TUser> FindAsync(string userName, string password)
    {
        var user = await FindByNameAsync(userName);

        if (user == null) return null;

        var isUserLockedOut = await GetLockoutEnabled(user);

        if (isUserLockedOut) return user;

        var isPasswordValid = await CheckPasswordAsync(user, password);

        if (isPasswordValid)
        {
            await _userLockoutStore.ResetAccessFailedCountAsync(user);
        }
        else
        {
            await IncrementAccessFailedCount(user);

            user = null;
        }

        return user;
    }

    private async Task<bool> GetLockoutEnabled(TUser user)
    {
        var isLockoutEnabled = await _userLockoutStore.GetLockoutEnabledAsync(user);

        if (isLockoutEnabled == false) return false;

        var shouldRemoveLockout = DateTime.Now >= await _userLockoutStore.GetLockoutEndDateAsync(user);

        if (shouldRemoveLockout)
        {
            await _userLockoutStore.ResetAccessFailedCountAsync(user);

            await _userLockoutStore.SetLockoutEnabledAsync(user, false);

            return false;
        }

        return true;
    }

    private async Task IncrementAccessFailedCount(TUser user)
    {
        var accessFailedCount = await _userLockoutStore.IncrementAccessFailedCountAsync(user);

        var shouldLockoutUser = accessFailedCount > MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout;

        if (shouldLockoutUser)
        {
            await _userLockoutStore.SetLockoutEnabledAsync(user, true);

            var lockoutEndDate = new DateTimeOffset(DateTime.Now + DefaultAccountLockoutTimeSpan);

            await _userLockoutStore.SetLockoutEndDateAsync(user, lockoutEndDate);
        }
    }
}

Example:

    [AllowAnonymous]
    [HttpPost]
    public async Task<ActionResult> Login(string userName, string password)
    {
        var userManager = new LockingUserManager<MyUser, int>(new MyUserStore())
        {
            DefaultAccountLockoutTimeSpan = /* get from appSettings */,
            MaxFailedAccessAttemptsBeforeLockout = /* get from appSettings */
        };

        var user = await userManager.FindAsync(userName, password);

        if (user == null)
        {
            // bad username or password; take appropriate action
        }

        if (await _userManager.GetLockoutEnabledAsync(user.Id))
        {
            // user is locked out; take appropriate action
        }

        // username and password are good
        // mark user as authenticated and redirect to post-login landing page
    }

If you want to manually lock someone out, you can set whatever flag you're checking in MyUserStore.GetLockoutEnabledAsync().

Answer 4

await userManager.SetLockoutEnabledAsync(applicationUser.Id, true);
await userManager.SetLockoutEndDateAsync(DateTime.Today.AddYears(10));