Title: Force authentication
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Force authentication

 *  [Stefano Aglietti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveagl/)
 * (@steveagl)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/)
 * I use a plugin externa DB authentication that works fine allowing me to match
   auth users against an external DB. But I need a further step.
 * I get users already logged in on another site, for them i have they login and
   password, if I use them to login on WP using the plugin above it works like a
   charm, but i don’t want to have user to login on WP but getting they login data
   and send it in some way to WP to make them being logged in a full transparent
   way but passing trhought the ext db auth plugin. In other words i wanna pass 
   usersname e password not to get the auth cookies without having to make people
   login or redirecting to WP login URL with a redirect… to not have the page reloaded.
 * Any idea how to? I tried to call wp_authenticate passing users and password but
   no luck it loops somewhere.
 * It’s a bit urgent… thanks in advance.

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 *  Thread Starter [Stefano Aglietti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveagl/)
 * (@steveagl)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/#post-1212380)
 * Any help? It’s really important….
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/#post-1212388)
 * You might want to try subscribing to the wp-hackers list and post the question
   there.
 * [http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers](http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers)
 *  Thread Starter [Stefano Aglietti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steveagl/)
 * (@steveagl)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/#post-1212400)
 * I already am there… no luck i will ask there again too. Thanks
 *  [jkpro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkpro1/)
 * (@jkpro1)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/#post-1212546)
 * I would like to know how to do this too… anyone?

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 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [jkpro1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkpro1/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/force-authentication/#post-1212546)
 * Status: not resolved

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