I'm working on a DNN implementation for our corporate intranet.

We want to have a public portal and several child portals. The public portal will be for all unauthenticated users. Once a user authenticates (via SSO and a custom module I'll develop), we want to push the user to one of several child portals.

Child Portal #1: Department Administrators
Child Portal #2: Department Developers
Child Portal #3: The Boss Page!
Child Portal #4: Any authenticated user not in our department.

We can provision access to Child Portals #1-3 using our current architecture (ironically enough, the department is Access Provisioning so we're actually quite good at that...). Using our current back-end, we will load and manage the DNN User Store with the appropriate logins.

When a user authenticates via SSO, we will take their userID token and validate it against the DNN User store. From there, based on the user's role, we want to push them to a specific Child Portal.

So, my questions are:

1. Is creating Child Portals the right way to seperate users?
2. Can you share content easily between child portals?
3. Is there any type of functionality within DNN currently to send a user to a specific child portal based on role?

We'd really like child portals 1-3 to be the same with the exception of the home page and a few links. Ideally, we'd just be able to swap out home pages based on User Role.