Hello,

I have no clue about the inner workings of DNN and Michael's idea of being able to authenticate a user in one portal against the user details in a 'Master' portal would solve some problems for me, so I installed the module and it does almost what I want, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to make the amendments to the code to get it to work how I need it to.

The module currently confirms that the user is valid and then retrieves the roles that the user belongs to and creates userrole records in the target portal.  The problem for me is that the userroles are created with expiry dates a long way off using a DateTime.MaxValue parameter value, and I make use of the dates to allow access to content.  I have copied the current code below, can someone please help me modify this code so that the userrole records are created with the same effectiveDate and Expiry date that they have in the source portal.

        #region UpdateUserInTheCurrentPortal
        private void UpdateUserRoles(UserInfo objAuthenticationPortalUserInfo)
        {
            UserInfo objUserInfo = UserController.GetUserByName(PortalId, objAuthenticationPortalUserInfo.Username);
            RoleController RoleController = new RoleController();
            RoleInfo RoleInfo;

            // First remove the user from all roles they are in
            foreach (string strRole in objUserInfo.Roles)
            {
                RoleInfo = RoleController.GetRoleByName(PortalId, strRole);
                if (!(RoleInfo == null))
                {
                    if (RoleController.CanRemoveUserFromRole(PortalSettings, objUserInfo.UserID, RoleInfo.RoleID))
                    {
                        RoleController.DeleteUserRole(PortalId, objUserInfo.UserID, RoleInfo.RoleID);
                    }
                }
            }

            // Add the user to the roles that they are in in the Authentication portal           
            foreach (string strRole in objAuthenticationPortalUserInfo.Roles)
            {
                RoleInfo = RoleController.GetRoleByName(PortalId, strRole);
                if (!(RoleInfo == null))
                {
                    RoleController.AddUserRole(PortalId, objUserInfo.UserID, RoleInfo.RoleID, DateTime.MaxValue);
                }
            }

        }
        #endregion

Any help very gratefully accepted

Many thanks

Barry

Thanks for replying Michael, that makes sense.

I'm trying to get to a stage where I can have other related portals using the authentication portal for all role/membership management. So if I am managing all the roles from within the authentication portal, how would I duplicate the UserRole information (including EffectiveDate and ExpiryDate) from the authentication portal into a record for the target portal (providing that there's a security role with the same name in the target portal) ?

Many thanks

Barry