Title: Transparent external authentication
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Transparent external authentication

 *  [wdgolden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wdgolden/)
 * (@wdgolden)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-external-authentication/)
 * I have an existing intranet that uses a sql database for user authentication.
   Upon signing into the intranet user info is stored in a cookie and session variable.
   I would like to add WordPress to my site and have users transparently authenticated
   against my existing sql database and then logged onto WordPress using the data
   from the session variable or cookie. I do not want users to see a logon page 
   at all, rather they would click a link to the WordPress site and have access 
   to post as the user they logged in as on the intranet main page.
 * The existing site is written in ColdFusion and classic ASP. Currently there is
   a header at the top of every page that checks to see if the session/cookie info
   is set, if not it redirects the user to the homepage to logon. I would likely
   have to duplicate this header content and functionality in php.
 * Does anyone have any experience with this kind of situation? I would greatly 
   appreciate any information or tips.
 * Thanks

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 *  [mikesmobile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikesmobile/)
 * (@mikesmobile)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-external-authentication/#post-783119)
 * Hi wdgolden,
 * Did you ever find an answer for this?

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/transparent-external-authentication/#post-783119)
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