MsalGuard redirect to login instead of automatically authenticating?

[umagon]

Core Library

MSAL.js (@azure/msal-browser)

Wrapper Library

MSAL Angular (@azure/msal-angular)

Public or Confidential Client?

Public

Description

I was checking this issue #3047 and the OP wanted to login automatically upon entering a protected path.

I want the opposite, I would like MsalGuard to redirect to my login page instead of trying to automatically authenticate (thus triggering a msal:loginStart event) upon arrival to a protected route. I only want the app to try to authenticate when the user clicks on my "SSO Login" button.

My Setup

PathLocationStrategy, MsalRedirectComponent (bootstrapped in app.module) in its own /auth route, with its tag present in index.html. Login page with a button that calls loginRedirect(). Using logoutRedirect({ account }) to logout with postLogoutRedirectUri to my login page, MsalGuard protecting all routes except /auth, /login and error pages, RoleGuard protecting certain screens.

Source

External (Customer)

[tnorling]

This is more of a routing problem than an auth problem so this is not something we're going to build into the library, however, you can absolutely build your own Guard to handle this.