First of all, thank you very much for taking out time and responding
to my question.
Authenticating is not the problem.
Is there a way to provide the authentication credentials without the
user having to type in the username/password. My app would have the
credentials in a db, but how can I pass those to the external site so
that the pop-up for credential does not show up and the user is taken
to the post-authentication pages...
As the original post stated Windows Authentication, I focused on that
problem. It sounds more like a provisioning of users problem now, in
particular linking a database account to a windows account so they have
permissions.
Are you trying to link database credentials to a windows authentication
app? If so, there are some ways to do this. Not out of the box .NET, per
se, but there are products like Commerce Server that allow mapping of
database accounts to Active Directory accounts/groups. I have not
personally worked with it, but Content Management Server may also offer the
same.
It might also be possible in SharePoint, although I have not seen how much
of Commerce Server has been pulled in now. I do remember some scenarios
with early Digital Dashboard to map accounts, however, so I would assume
there is a way to do this.
There might also be some third party bits that map database users to a
windows authentication site.
Peace and Grace,
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Gregory A. Beamer
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