I have in the past been able to successfully log into a 2.0 ASP.NET site (not DNN) and been able to resuse the same auth cookie in a separate 1.1 ASP.NET site.  This is fairly straightforward.

I want to use DNN  (4.3.7) for authenticating users of a separate application (1.1) and am having trouble.  I have configured everything the same and set up a portal role in DNN with the same naming as the allowed role in my 1.1 site.

After logging into the 2.0 DNN, the Application_AuthenticateRequest method of my 1.1 site is able to grab the auth cookie and knows the user is forrms authenticated and properly extracts the id.  The problem is that the userData (i.e. roles) is empty.  The user keeps getting bounced to the DNN login.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thank you.

            if (HttpContext.Current.User != null)
            {
                if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
                {
                    if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity is FormsIdentity)
                    {
                        FormsIdentity id = (FormsIdentity)HttpContext.Current.User.Identity;
                        FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = id.Ticket;
           
                        // Get the stored user-data, in this case, our roles
                        string userData = ticket.UserData;
                        string[] roles = userData.Split('|');    // this string array is empty
                        HttpContext.Current.User = new GenericPrincipal(id, roles);
                    }
                }
            }

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Shawn Duggan MCPD
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Hey Shawn I am really interested in the code.  It sounds like exactly what I'm trying to do.

 

Thanks mate.

 

Joe Fallon.