DotNetNuke (DNN) internal database contains membership/role for authentication and authorization.   What if your shop already has an established database of  username and password and you want to use it for DNN login?  The ICPC-SsoXP module provides a custom login control that let users login to DNN using accounts from the external database.

How does it work?  When a user enters username and password and clicks on Login button (Figure 1), the module will authenticate the user name and password against the external database.  If the account is authenticated, the module will authorize user to login DNN .

Figure 1 - SsoXP login control enables authentication (checking valid user username and password) from external database

In addition to custom login control, the SsoXP module provides following capabilities:

• Page redirect after login - users can be redirected to page in the portal if the username belongs to certain role 
• Sync profile data between DNN and external database - module provides custom Profile control that will sync DNN and external database when users update their profiles in DNN.  The sync data include password, name, email, phone, etc. 
• Batch import of accounts/roles and role assignments from external database into DNN - the Import Users utility can be used import accounts into DNN so you can assign the accounts to DNN security roles prior to user login

For more information about this release, check out this blog.  The module binary version is avaiable as free download.