LinkedIn

Authentication Users Password

Presentation

LinkedIn is a professional social network. It uses OAuth2 protocol to allow applications to reuse its own authentication process (see https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2).

You need to register a new application on LinkedIn to get an application ID and a secret. See https://www.linkedin.com/developer/apps/ on how to do that.

Configuration

In Manager, go in General Parameters > Authentication modules and choose LinkedIn for authentication module.

Then, go in LinkedIn parameters:

Collected fields are stored in session in linkedIn_ keys