Hi,

Im developing a portal with DNN.  However DNN is only going to be used as a wrapper.

I have separate asp pages that are various order entry screens and the like.  That will be displayed in iframe on the dnn screen.  I do not want to make modules out of these screens.

What I need to happen is use the dnn login to validate users for my other asp pages.  So the roles and users will be set up in DNN but will also be used by my pages do determine functionality. 

Is there any way to access the user information dnn stores from my pages.  I need to get the user name and password of the person logged in.  Then allow them to see the appropriate information on my asp pages.

I hope that makes sense thanks in advance for any help.

Joe.

There is absolutly no secure way to do what you want to do

I recommend you upgrade tyour classic asp application to ASP.NET 2.0, then you could use ASP.NET membership to share the login info

Even better would be as djbaldwin said, convert your app to DNN modules. You do not need to implement DNN DAL, this is just good design practise, you can keep your current data access methods and only rewrite the GUI in DNN style ASCX user controls

GuitarDude,

I am in the same situation. I am also going to load the old site into an ifram and use DNN as the frontend. I will on the other hand make the old site moduler over time.

That being said, it appears that they there will soon be a fix to the current IFrame module that will allow parameters to be passed through the query string. From the screen shots, it appears that one of the parameters that you can use is UserId.

As far as looking up the currently logged in user in your old app, you really only need the UserId. I would not pass the password in the query string. If the user has already logged in through DNN, then passing the UserId to look up specific information is all you need. If you currently have a user table for the old app where you will need to look up information specifi to the user, then i would just create a reference field in the Users Table of the old site that links the user to the DNN user Table. Then when you pass the UserId you can do a quick look up on the currently logged in user.

djbaldwin,

For you question about why would you want to do this? Consider that in my case i will be transiiting from the old site to the DNN framework over a period of time (I have multiple application based intranets that need to be combined). My current intranets are too big to just create a module over night and do as you say with using the DNN framework out of the box. So as i build my modules i will take advantage of DNN's security by making it the single sign in for the multiple intratnet sites. Then overtime i will slowly convert the IFrame to the actual module and kill off the old intranets. That being said i still need to know who is logged in when they are working on an application in the old site. Passing the UserId through the query string will allow you to look up your user in your old site while still using DNN's framework.