CanCan gem for MVC .NET

Question

I am looking for NuGet package that provides similar functionality as the CanCan gem in rails ( https://github.com/ryanb/cancan ).

Does anyone know a plugin that provides a similar functionality? Or a simple way to implement this?

Thanks

Answer 1

I ended up looking at http://www.develop.com/wifclaimsbasedauthorizationone it does very much as CanCan does.

For example

ClaimsPrincipalPermission.CheckAccess("Customer","Add");

Would check whether the user had permission to add customers.

We are testing http://thinktecture.github.com/Thinktecture.IdentityModel.45/

Basically claims based Authorization for .Net

With MVC5 and One ASP.Net Claims is baked right into the core of .Net

Answer 2

After a long long search I found these essays useful:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff359101.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/639458/Claims-Based-Authentication-and-Authorization http://www.codetails.com/punitganshani/using-claims-identity-with-simplemembership-in-asp-net-mvc/20130525
http://leastprivilege.com/
http://www.postsharp.net/aspects/examples/security

UPDATE
latest from Microsoft introduced in 2013 release: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2013/06/27/introducing-asp-net-identity-membership-system-for-asp-net-applications.aspx
Samples:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/18751036/316343
https://github.com/rustd/AspnetIdentitySample http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh377151.aspx

I prefer the one used in CodeProject tutorial which is based on frameworks from Thinktecture guys, source code is available at:
https://github.com/brockallen/BrockAllen.MembershipReboot https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityModel.45

Just remember that the CodeProject article is outdated from the persistence point of view.
Now MembershipReboot support EntityFramework, MongoDB and RavenDB as data store.