Hello, 

I have checked all the documentation publicly available in roder to find how to create a custom authentication module, but i couldn't find it.

I have downloaded the sample modules from codeplex and looked at the source code, but i couldn't figured out how to put the "standard", "Twitter", "LiveID" tabs at the top of the login page. When i create a sample auth module the tab shows nothing, it is seen as a small square.

Do you have any publicly available resource to build custom auth providers for DNN 6.0?

regards,

Take a look at Joe Brinkman's blog for a very nice step-by-step example. It was written in the V5 days, but it's still applicable.

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Joe Craig
Patapsco Research Group, Ellicott City, MD
DotNetNuke Development and Services (http://patapscorg.com)

The first thing to understand about authentication providers - is that they are NOT modules in the same sense of the word as say a blog module or a html module.

Firstly they are not based on the  portalmodulebase class but instead is based on the AuthenticationLoginBase class.

In addition, you do not load your authentication provided onto a page like a normal module. Instead what happens at runtime - is that the Login module that comes with DNN is always the "module" that gets loaded - this module then looks up the list of installed authentication providers - and loads each one onto a tab - it is the module that is doing the work of putting DNN, LiveID, Facebook as buttons at the top of the login page.

So to create your OWN provider you need to first create an authentication provider extension - and register this in the sites DNN extensions.

Also, the files for your extension should really always be installed in a sub folder of /DesktopModules/Admin/AuthentecationServices/,  This is where the default DNN, LiveID etc extensions are located.

Finally by far the easiest way to create your own extension is to base it on the DNN provider - it shows ALL the minimum elements you need to do to get a user properly authenticated.

Westa