asp.net application + single sign on

Question

I want to implement single sign on in my asp.net web application. Scenario is something like below:

1. user will get registered / sign up at "account.example.com"
2. there will a link to "professional.example.com"
3. when user goes to this link (step 2), they must remain logged in over here.

Please suggest me the best solution for this.

Regards, Pratik

Answer 1

You want to set the Domain property on the cookie object to ".example.com" and it will work for any sub-domain of "example.com".

If you're using ASP.NET's forms authentication, this article is a good place to start to find out all the options for configuring it.

Answer 2

If you are using Forms Authentication you need to set your forms and machinekey sections in web.config to be identical.

Here is a good link -> Forms Authentication Across Applications