How to map a certificate to a user via C#

Hi,

I'm busy writing a program which reads a certificate from a card (the
belgian eid card) and that certificate has to be mapped to a user that has
been selected in a datagridview.

I have tried with:

entry.Properties["userCertificate"].Add(x509.getRawCertData());
entry.Properties["userCert"].Add(x509.getRawCertData());

I had no luck with these... I never saw the certificate being mapped.

I then looked for a function which showed all the propertynames and values
of a specific entry. There I found that a user who had a certificate mapped
to his account had a property "altSecurityIdentities".

When I added a value to that property I saw I had mapped a certificate to my
account. The value was made by data which is retrieved from the certificate I
got from the card. This is the format:

object altSecId = x5092.GetFormat() + ":<I>" + x5092.GetIssuerName() + "<S>"
+ x5092.GetName();

Now I did the real test.

I made sure I had no certificate mapped to my account. I also made sure the
property's "userCertificate" and "userCert" had no more values.


Then I tried to login to a website. The result was as I expected. I could
not login. I got an error telling me that the client certificate did not
match the user credentials. I expected this one.


Then I mapped a certificate to my account via my C# code. I expected I would
be able to login but got the same error message as the previous test. My
client certificate did not match the user credentials I entered. So this was
not expected as I saw my certificate being mapped to my account.


My final test was to make sure that if I mapped my certificate manually I'd
be able to login. So I mapped it manually. I tried to login. I was successful
as I expected.


Now I can't solve the issue as why I can't login when I map my certificate
via C# code. I see it's mapped, but it doesn't do anything... So something is
probably still missing :s

Hope some of you guys hava experience with this. If you want to see code or
something don't hesitate to ask ;)

[christina18_7]

Hello,

I'm facing the same problem. Can you tell me how did you resolve it.


Thank you,

Cristina