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Yma

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1/17/2021 4:48 AM

    Hello,

    I have an external app that is working as an external application. It needs to use our DNN website users to authenticate. If the user is available it should send back to as an authenticated user and also user profile data.

    How can I receive the request and check the user availability and send back the response? Please, can you advise? the external app is using angular react.

    If there is an inbuilt module free/commercial please show me. Otherwise, please, can you advise me on how to develop this? As n DNN module or API?

    Appreciate your advice and the support.

    Thank you!






    Joe Craig

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    1/23/2021 8:17 PM
      Can anyone help with this?
      Joe Craig
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      tony bonn

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      1/24/2021 10:01 AM

        i have a similar need where i am running another .net application as a subdomain, which has its own authentication system. it would be very nice to federate the two sites such that a user who logs in to the subdomain would be authenticated with the dnn site. and though i program, it would be nice to have a software package which does this. (it is enough to configure and maintain a site without having to write code :-o ). i do not want to create windows os users as both sites are public facing. i also do not want to use 3d party oauth systems such as google or facebook logins to accomplish this.






        Joe Craig

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        1/25/2021 12:07 AM
          Hopefully someone will pipe up with some suggestions.
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          Barry Waluszko

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          1/26/2021 5:47 AM
            It all depends where external app have it's user data store. I see two options:
            1. External website have it's own user data store. In that case dedicated authentication provider is required. The best option to do that is see how the standard DNN login module works, the source code is on GitHub. Of course external app should expose some kind of API to connect with it, but often it doesn't have any hook to do that.
            2. Second option is where external website is using one of the popular user data store where users are, like: Azure AD, Active Directory, etc. In that case DNN has plugins where on the top of the protocols like: LDAP, ADFS, SAML, OpenID, etc. it can connect and do the job.





            Mike Palmer

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            2/18/2021 5:23 PM

              Another option would be to use the DNN Module XMOD Pro.

              Your non-DNN system could call an endpoint on your DNN domain via the:

              https://yourdomain.com/De...es/XModPro/feed.aspx endpoint with form and auth data, and the feed can return the user data / claims as JSON.

              Regards,

              Mike Palmer.

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