DNN OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) with Auth0 as OAuth Provider

DNN OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) authentication provider gives the ability to enable OAuth Single Sign-On for your DotNetNuke site. Using Single Sign-On you can use only one password to access your DotNetNuke site and services. Our authentication provider is compatible with all the OAuth compliant identity providers. Here we will go through a step-by-step guide to configure Single Sign-On (SSO) between DNN and Auth0 considering Auth0 as OAuth Provider. To know more about the other features we provide for DNN OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO), click here.

Pre-requisites: Download and Installation

• Download the DNN Oauth Single Sign On authentication provider with above link.
• Upload the installation package dnn-oauth-single-sign-on_xxx_Install by going in Settings > Extension > Install Extension.
• Now under the Installed extensions tab select Authentication Systems. Here you can see the miniOrange DNN OAuth Authentication Provider.

• Just click on the pencil icon as mentioned in the image below to configure the DNN OAuth Authentication Provider.

• You have finished with the installation of the Authentication Provider on your DNN site.

Steps to configure DNN Single Sign-On (SSO) using Auth0 as IDP

1. Configure Authentication Provider for Setting up OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)

• For configuring application in the authentication provider, click on the Add New Provider button in the Identity Provider Settings tab.


Select your Identity Provider

• Select Auth0 as Identity Provider from the list. You can also search for your Identity Provider using the search box.

2. Configure Auth0 as OAuth Provider

• Go to https://auth0.com/auth/login and sign up or login.
• Go to Applications tab in the left panel and then click on Applications.

• Click on Create application to create a new application.

• Select Regular web Applications and click on Create button.

• Now go to settings tab.

• Scroll down to Applications URI's section and enter the callback url which you will get from DNN OAuth plugin. Then, Scroll down and click on save changes.

• Copy the Client ID and Client Secret from basic information in setttings tab and save it on your miniOrange DNN OAuth plugin Configuration.

• Now go to Users tab in the user management from the left panel.

• Click on Create User to create a new user.

• Enter all the required details and click on Create.

You have successfully configured Auth0 as OAuth Provider to Single Sign-On into your DNN application.

3. Configuring OAuth Provider

• Copy the Redirect/Callback URL and provide it to your OAuth provider.

4. Configuring OAuth Client

• Configure Client ID, Client Secret, update the endpoints if required and save the settings.

5. Test Configuration

• Now go to the Identity Provider Settings tab.
• Under the select actions click on the Test Configuration button to verify if you have configured the authentication provider correctly.

• On successful configuration, you will get Attribute Name and Attribute Values in the Test Configuration window.

6. Attribute Mapping

• For attribute mapping select the Edit Configuration from the select actions dropdown.
• Map email and username with Attribute Name you can see in Test Configuration window and save the settings.

You can configure the ASP.NET OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO) module with any identity provider such as ADFS, Azure AD, Bitium, Centrify, G Suite, JBoss Keycloak, Okta, OneLogin, Salesforce, AWS Cognito, OpenAM, Oracle, PingFederate, PingOne, RSA SecureID, Shibboleth-2, Shibboleth-3, SimpleSAML, WSO2 or even with your own custom identity provider.

Additional Resources

• ASP.NET OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Two-Factor Authentication for ASP.NET
• Two-Factor Authentication for DNN
• DNN SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)
• DNN REST API Authentication
• nopCommerce OAuth Single Sign-On (SSO)
• Kentico SAML Single Sign-On (SSO)