Pro ASP.NET Core Identity: Under the Hood with Authentication and Authorization in ASP.NET Core 5 and 6 Applications

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10. Using Roles and Claims

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

In this chapter, I describe the Identity API features that support roles and claims. Roles are commonly used to create fine-grained authorization policies that differentiate between different signed-in users. Claims are a general-purpose approach to describing any data that is known about a user and allow custom data to be added to the Identity user store. Table 10-1 puts these features in context.

Table 10-1.

Putting Roles and Claims in Context

Question	Answer
What are they?	Roles differentiate groups of users to create authorization ...