Creating your own log in and authentication system

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Hi All,

Is it feasible and permitted to create your own log in system and save the information to another Dataverse table not named Contact in order to avoid having Authenticated Users but instead only have mostly Anonymous Users?

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You mention creating your own login system = authentication, but then instead have mostly anonymous users. With the information you have provided, it doesn't sound feasible. In trying to implement this on Power Pages and Dataverse, you are really ignoring all the functionality and capability the product/platform provides, which is what you pay for. If you are trying to avoid or lessen licensing costs, then I would consider a cheaper alternative technology or go open source.

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Thank you for the response! A cheaper alternative or going open source is something we are considering and this is what we might end up doing.

Before we finalize that decision, I am required to fully workout and expand on this option to my team. Suppose we use an online service such as Okta to handle authentication and user registration and then customize/develop the portal in-house to integrate this into the web pages/forms, it is against Power Platform's terms of service to do this and basically bypass Authenticated Users functionality?

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Power Pages authentication and authorisation works a certain way, that is using the contacts table to store power pages users and setting up permissions and relationships on tables. There is no point trying to fit square pegs in round holes, it will take more effort to do and maintain this on Power Pages as to develop a custom solution in another technology. I am not familiar with Okta but if it's an identity provider that supports SAML 2, Open ID or WS Federation, then it should be possible to use it for authentication.

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