Hello all,

This message was posted about a year ago to a stackoverflow forum:

"I would like the users on my DNN website to associate their accounts with their Facebook account. Once this is done, they should be able to login with either the website UN/PW or Facebook.

I currently have Facebook login integrated on the website using a 3rd party module. But the way it works is, that it creates a new user whenever a new profile is used for login. Instead of that, I'd like current users to specify their Facebook profiles in some way and then use it for login if they wish."

At the time Chris Hammond replied:

"You would need to check with the creator of the third party module you are using, there isn't anything in DNN specifically to do Facebook logins right now."

Well, a year later, DNN is allowing Facebook logins, but, from my experience so far, does exactly the same thing as this user describes... namely, creates a new user in my portal, even if an account already exists for them. This is not what I was hoping for.

I can find no documentation at DNN which describes how this process works, IOW, if the usernames and email address are the same in DNN and Facebook then the accounts are linked (or under what conditions will this work)?

If new accounts will need to be made, then DNN should tell us... otherwise tell us what the conditions need to be to make this work!

Thanks

Matthias,

Thanks for the response. I have configured the DotNetNuke Facebook Authentication Project. Users can login using their Facebook credentials... after they create a new account on my portal... this is the problem. If they already have an account on my portal I want that account to be used. I see no setting where this issue is addressed.

This leads me to wonder if only new accounts can be used in this case. What I need is advice from someone who has gone through these steps, with first-hand experience. Perhaps someone from DNN can provide further details of this process.

Thanks

I will look to found some time to install the fb Provider and check it's work. I haven't try the provder yet so I am not sure about the Feature of the Provider. But as I mentoried as the AD Provider works it should be anywhere a function to add Facebook account to a existing DNN account.

At time I can't tell you into the steps how this works, or is this an issue of the provider that the feature is not added.

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Regards

Matthias

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