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Guest Topic Starter

17 years ago

Hi, I've just recently downloaded and installed YAF for a client, but I'm having a little bit of trouble integrating it into the current project. Authentication( with yaf stored procedure) works fine but its not setting the cookie to authenticate the user on the forum, although the code is almost the same as the login.acx page. heres the source if anyones interested.

If NewUser.DeCrypt(NewUser.password) = UCase(txtPassword.Text) Then
                    Dim dl As New DataLayer()
                    Dim params As Object() = {1, txtUserID.Text,FormsAuthentication.HashPasswordForStoringInConfigFile(txtPassword.Text.ToUpper(), "md5")}
                    Dim uID As Integer = dl.execScalar("yaf_user_login", params)
                    If uID > 0 Then
                        Dim idName As String = String.Format("{0};{1};{2}", uID, 1, txtUserID.Text)


                        'User is valid...
                        Label1.Text = NewUser.FirstName & " " & NewUser.LastName

                        LoadSessionVariables(NewUser)
                        FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(idName, False)
                        Response.Redirect("main.aspx", False)
                    End If

it all executes fine and returns the uID but its not setting the session. both folders are virtual directories the yaf forum is located in the root/forum/ folder. Thanks.

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Ederon
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YAF Developer

17 years ago

If you want to share authentication, you have to use the same authentication settings in web.config IIRC.

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guest
Guest Topic Starter

17 years ago

hmm, could you provide an example of this? Thanks for the help its much appreciated.

Ederon
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YAF Developer

17 years ago

web.config of both applications should share this part.

	<system.web>

		...

		<authentication mode="Forms">
			<forms name=".YAFNET_Authentication" protection="All" timeout="43200" cookieless="UseCookies"/>
		</authentication>

		<machineKey validationKey="YOUR_KEY" decryptionKey="YOUR_KEY" validation="SHA1"/>

		...

	<system.web>

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guest
Guest Topic Starter

17 years ago

Yes! worked perfectly, thank you very much sir. :d

Kai2
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YAF Camper

16 years ago

Great! The machinekey-entry also fixed my problem, thanks a lot 😎 Just in case anyone else needs it: Here is a quite useful article about machine keys, especially the MachineKey Generator was a big help for me. :idea: You only need to copy the generate lines to both your application and YAF (in addition to the authentication node of course).

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