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Nitish KumarNitish Kumar 

Authentication into Communities from a Connected App

We have a connected app which we are using for our community users. We want to use Vidyard in the connected app , but since vidyard only works in SF1 connected app and not in any other connected app, We are trying to do a re-authentication into salesforce for using Vidyard. 
We would like to know if we can use the connected app Session ID to bypass or automatically login into Communities browser view.

Any help would be much appreciated
Andy BoettcherAndy Boettcher
You will need to do a standard SSO login() and pass the valid SessionID through.  The best thing I can recommend is for you to try it out.
Nitish KumarNitish Kumar
I don't this standard SSO login() which uses frontdoor.jsp login is supported for Communities.
Nitish KumarNitish Kumar
Salesforce has allowed the frontdoor.jsp to use for logging into Salesforce but its not supported for community users. 

https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewSolution?id=000193348

In our scenario we have an active session Id , is there any other way to login into the community using the Session Id.
Andy BoettcherAndy Boettcher
Yes, you correctly identified that you CANNOT use frontdoor.jsp with Communities.  If you are looking to log a user into Salesforce without them entering their username and password - you will need to implement Single Sign On, which you can pass a valid SessionId to.