I can see in the api that once you have a user you can get their sso information. If you user are using sso you probably have a data source with this name. What you do not have is a source of the username they may have chosen in a discourse instance. This makes it very hard to find users. So it there a way to find a user by their sso username? Since I moved to docker I have replacing some automation I that ran via adding it as a rake task. It added and disabled users. I do not want to do that anymore and would like the use the API to replace it.

With a little tweak @riking that is it. /users/by-external/#{sso_username}.json The json part is needed as it will not do the search otherwise. This needs to be added to the api gem.

In am thinking something like def show @user = User.find_by(username_lower: params[:id]) if SiteSetting.enable_sso && !@user sso_record = SingleSignOnRecord.find_by(external_id: params[:id]) if sso_record && user = sso_record.user @user = sso_record.user end end raise Discourse::NotFound unless @user render_serialized(@user, AdminDetailedUserSerializer, root: false) end The idea is that if sso is enable using the sso records as a back up. As I think this through the more I think this is a bad idea. Hmm how to get the user via their external_id?

Using the API is it possible find users by their sso username

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riking (Kane York) July 7, 2015, 8:44pm 3

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Using the API is it possible find users by their sso username

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