I am writing an app in node red that has a GUI component that allows humans to login to a web page. To login, I want to authenticate the user against an existing AD using ADFS. Is there a node that allows me to do this? I'm not having much luck finding a solution. I am told that if ADFS is not poss…

While I've never actually got round to doing this, I understand that Node-RED uses Passport which is a popular extension to ExpressJS which Node-RED uses to provide its web interfaces. As such, there are plugins for Passport that provide both Azure Active Directory - which I think is what you want …

Thanks for the info. It's an on-premise AD for now, not sure what the future holds. So maybe for flexibility I should use ADFS/AD using Passport. I will read up on that.

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RobP 14 June 2019 18:58 4

With the help of a user here, I was able to get this to work inn pure javascript. See the code here: Authenticate against LDAP in Node Red

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