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Rank: YAF Forumling
Joined: 7/31/2008
Posts: 3
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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Hi all, was wondering could someone explain the way yaf works with regards logging into the system, creating users and if it is possible to use single sign on? was looking at the piece of code.. Code:
DataRow dr = DB.GetUser( this.ApplicationName, null, username, userIsOnline );
which queries the database. is it possible to have a secondary user name, a forum display name and a login name? where the login name could be mapped to an AD account. how difficult would this be to modify the code or is it possible? also would it be possible to auto create a users profile based on there AD account. so if user entry does not exist it creates a new profile? N.
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Rank: Member
Joined: 4/24/2008
Posts: 22
Location: East Sussex UK
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Hi Not sure if what you are trying to achieve is the same as me but I have modified the registration process to use the users AD account and automatically register them in YAF. This was necessary for my project as we drive our employee data from AD and have a number of intergrated systems. At the moment I have used a subset of AD information for membership and manage members profiles separately in a .net web app (turn off YAF member profiles, use's manage profile info in web app via AD). In the future I will intergrate the membership information in AD via SharePoint 2007 Profiles which I we are implementing as our corporate platform. If you think it might help I can post some of my code 
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Rank: YAF Forumling
Joined: 7/31/2008
Posts: 3
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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hi CodeJunky,
thats along the same lines as im thinking. could you post the code please.
Think i will need to add a column to the users table to store either a link id or a display name so i can link back to AD.
which would be easier? adding a display name column which is shown on the forum so users can chose there own name and hiding the current username column from everyone but admin. or adding an id column that is hidden to everyone and just used in a new login method to check if a user exists?
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Rank: YAF Developer
Joined: 7/12/2005
Posts: 1,223
Location: on Dock Street
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I'm sure someones had some success with using 1.93 and the ActiveDirectoryMemsberhip provider, possibly saving the headache of trying to sync an earlier version with Active Directory. Not done it myself, but neither of you mentioned what version so I thought I'd throw that idea in.  "It's a case of RTFM.. the only problem being we don't have a manual!" When I post FP:Mek in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Ederon  )
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Rank: Member
Joined: 7/30/2008
Posts: 10
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I'm not sure if this is the same issue or not, but I'd like for YAF to use my login and my registration page that already exists in my application.
Can I do this? I have custom code that processes a user when they register and I don't want the Yaf code to run.
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