How to Manage ACS Service Identities

Question

I host a WCF 4.5 service in azure WebRole and I use Azure ACS Service Identities to manage my wcf users (active authentication). this model is accepted for me because we have a limited number of users

Now I want to know How can I manage (Create/Read/Update/Delete) ACS Service Identities programmatically via C# code.

Answer 1

Take a look at the ACS Management Service API which has ServiceIdentity management.

The management endpoint is located here:
https://NAMESPACE.accesscontrol.windows.net/v2/mgmt/service

You can leverage this ACS Management service to create new ServiceIdentities

string name = "SampleServiceIdentity";
string password = "SampleServiceIdentityPassword";
ServiceIdentity sid = new ServiceIdentity()
{
    Name = name
};

DateTime startDate, endDate;
startDate = DateTime.UtcNow;
endDate = DateTime.MaxValue;

ServiceIdentityKey key = new ServiceIdentityKey()
{
    EndDate = endDate.ToUniversalTime(),
    StartDate = startDate.ToUniversalTime(),
    Type = "Password",
    Usage = "Password",
    Value = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(password),
    DisplayName = String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0} key for {1}", "Password", name)
};

svc.AddToServiceIdentities(sid);
svc.AddRelatedObject(
    sid,
    "ServiceIdentityKeys",
    key);


svc.SaveChanges(SaveChangesOptions.Batch);

This example is from MSDN - How to: Use ACS Management Service to Configure Service Identies.