I recently setup SSO so users can login to my top domain site ( mysite.com ) using their discourse login running on a subdomain ( forum.mysite.com ). Now I’m running into trouble because I also want to login to discourse from a desktop application. A little background: I’m running an invite-only softwa…

[image] tytel: I was thinking if Discourse was an OAuth2 provider it would work? I don’t think it is and I can’t find a way to do what I want but maybe I’m missing something. Discourse can’t be an OAuth2 provider, no (although I’d love to see a plugin that implements that one day - it’s defin…

Authorization from a desktop application (and base domain site)

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tytel (Matt Tytel) November 21, 2019, 3:39pm 3

That “User API Key” seems perfect!
I’ll give it a try, thank you!

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Authorization from a desktop application (and base domain site)

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