Calling ASP.NET pages between 2 different applications

[Guest]

Hello,
I have two ASP.NET applications running on the same IIS and secured with
FormsAuthentication. After users login to one of them I would like them to be
able to call pages from another without doing login again. What would be the
the best technique to accomplish that?

Thanks

 

[Brock Allen]

If both application use forms authentication and their <machineKey> elements
are synchronized then it should work fine.

 

[Mr Newbie]

How do you get the machineKey elements sync'd

 

[Brock Allen]

http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/SecurityWiki.HowToConfigureTheMachineKeyInASPNET2

 

[Tim Cartwright]

Correct me if im wrong, but wont his auth cookie need to be the same name as
well?