Node.js single sign on

OL Connect Professional Workflow
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I’m developing a web-based dashboard, and I’m using Workflow as the “web server” via the Node.JS Server Input plugins.

Users need to authenticate to the Active Directory, and that part is working, mostly.

Can I skip the Node.JS authentication if the user is already signed-in (via their Windows Domain login)?

In other words, can the Node.JS server be configured to support Single Sign-On (SSO)?

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Hi @TDGreer,

To be honest, I’m unfortunately not that familiar with Active Directory and/or Single Sign-On, but isn’t this something that can be solved by using the following property:

exports.DEFAULT_SESSION_TTL = 0;

in the JavaScript file default.js, which is stored at the following location:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Objectif Lune\ppnode\src\constants\

Source:

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No, that’s to set a “session cookie”, meaning that the session lasts as long as the browser is open. That’s failing for me as well, by the way. My main page loads and authenticates, but AJAX calls to the same domain/config bring up the login page again.

With SSO, there’s no need to login at all, the credentials used to login to the OS are passed in. Not entirely sure how that works, to be honest.

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If the webpage is the only page in the Crome browser, the user stays signed in.
But if the user opens multiple other pages in the same browser, the user is logged out multiple times a day, even though the session timer is set to 0.

So for now the solution is to have a separate browser windows for the pp web page, until hopefully SSO is implemented i PP.