Achieving a single sign-on by creating a virtual user with custom roles and rights
Sometimes, we may be in a situation where we need to authenticate users against an external security system before providing them access to secured pages or media items of the Sitecore website; this can be achieved by creating virtual users in Sitecore.
In some cases, virtual users are easier and simpler to implement than authentication providers. In this recipe, we will create a virtual user for an authenticated user of an external system, apply some predefined roles and permissions, and log in that user to access website resources.
Getting ready
This recipe assumes that a previewer user is already authenticated in any external application, and we will log in this ...
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