Create a login page for SharePoint Internet Site

[John Brennan]

I have a question on SharePoint that's been bugging me lately and was
wondering if anyone might have come across this already.

We're going to have a SharePoint site that's exposed to the Internet. It
will have anonymous access to most parts but we also want sections of the
site to require authentication. My understanding is that Sharepoint will
only work with Windows authentication (i.e. you can't create your own
ASP.NET forms authentication. SharePoint has to have Active Directory).
However, is there a way of suppressing the ugly, default "Enter your
username/password" dialog window from popping up? (That is, can I create my
own login page that capture the username & password and passes the details
on to the authentication process that will validate against Active
Directory, so that the appropiated Windows principal is associated with the
session?)

Many thanks,

John

[Steven Collier [MVP]]

'Not really' is the answer. If you are reverse proxying through ISA server
there *may* be some options.

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Steven Collier

SharePoint Portal Server MVP

[Colin Bowern]

John,

From all that I know of the architecture then you could probably modify the
ASP.NET HTTP Pipeline to do authentication and then create the user context
based on the login. There is also a potential to use ASP.NET forms
authentication to create a security principal. I haven't tried either but
technically both add the possibilities of doing it.

Cheers!
Colin

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[Bogdan Chernyachuk]

We did this task with writing own ISAPI filter.

Previuosly we tryied to implement our ouw HTTPModule but
didn't succeded, because WSS controls authentification
using it's own ISAPI filter. For example we was able to
make our custom web part and get data from database for
impersonated user, but for all sharepoint's objects the
user was still anonimous.

So what you need to do - write your ISAPI filter and
ensure that it has higher priority than one of WSS.

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[John Brennan]

Hi Bogdan,
Thanks for replying. I have never written an ISAPI filter
before but I am glad to hear that you successfully implemented custom logon
for SharePoint using this implementation. As a C# developer can you suggest
any url's or whitepapers that I should start with if I want to write a
similar ISAPI filter for SharePoint.

Many Thanks,
John

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