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4/15/2009 8:16 AM
 

I have a unique situation as an Operations Manager.  Just a quick summary:

We host/support several DNN websites in which my support team must login to at various times depending on customers calling in.  With that said we are currently using a single host or admin user that is in every one of our sites for support to login with.  From a security standpoint this is very poor and with employees coming and going, you can see why I need to address the issue at hand. 

So here is what I am trying to accomplish and have no clue if something like the Active Directory Provider will accomodate my needs or not:

We want to be able to create employees (admin/host)users, edit those passwords, and be able to remove internal employee users from all our dnn sites from a single point.  We have AD running on one of our servers that handles the databases.

Question is, if we put this Active Directory Provider module in every one of our sites, will this let us manage these company users from Active Directory?

Or does anyone know of something out there that will let us accomplish this?

Thanks for any insight.

Michael Kasper

 

 
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4/15/2009 1:50 PM
 

So you want your company employees to be logged in with admin/host user rights when they visit any of the DNN sites you host correct? And if they leave the company (and thus their account is either removed or disabled) they won't be able to log into those sites anymore.

I think it could be done but I'd have to do some testing to be sure. One thing I can see right now that you would need to do is that you'd want to "Hide" the login control so that your customers wouldn't see a Standard Login/Windows Login choice when they logged in. This would mean your staff would have go to the WindowsSignin.aspx page directly to get logged in but that shouldn't be a big deal once they're used to it.

 
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4/16/2009 7:47 AM
 

So you want your company employees to be logged in with admin/host user rights when they visit any of the DNN sites you host correct? And if they leave the company (and thus their account is either removed or disabled) they won't be able to log into those sites anymore.

Yes this is correct.

Could you elaborate more on the second part?  I would still need customers to be able to login  as they do go in and edit their sites as a secondary admin that we have created ourselves to limit full admin capability.

Thanks for your quick reply and I look forward to seeing if this was possible, and if so just how to implement this.

MK

 
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4/16/2009 4:00 PM
 

If you add the provider (or any provider) and then go to manually login you're given a list of tabs that point to each provider's login control. For the AD provider I added an option to hide the login from the manual login page. That said, a domain user can still get logged in by going straight to the WindowsSignin.aspx page.

 
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