I’ve enabled SSO on our company’s Discourse site, allowing external users from our app to log in. However, some staff members with company email addresses need access as moderators or administrators. Since these staff members aren’t registered in the app, we can’t create SSO accounts for them. Is t…

@RGJ thanks for the quick reply. But AFAIK this works only for admins, right? I want to do login for staff and moderators i.e power users but non-admin

I’m afraid that won’t work for non-admins.

Can’t they log in as regular users with sso and then you give them admin rights?

That’s the only problem I have is that they can’t exist on SSO

If I understand what you’re saying, Then you can’t use sso. The first S is for single. You’ll need to use multiple OAuth2 logins, I think. Why can your admins not use your authentication system?

I don’t have a solution, but I seem to remember this exact issue having come up a few times in the past. It’s unfortunate that you can’t make the users moderators and give them access to the site via the /u/admin-login route. [image] Nishkarsh Tripathi: I’ve enabled SSO on our company’s Discour…

Hey @simon , I am using DiscourseConnect for SSO

We want our admins, staff, and moderators to use their company email for logging in. However, our current SSO mechanism relies on phone number OTP-based authentication, and the user must be registered on our app with their email ID, which isn’t feasible for these users. While we could implement cus…

[image] Nishkarsh Tripathi: I am using DiscourseConnect for SSO [image] Nishkarsh Tripathi: Unfortunately, I don’t believe SSO and local login can coexist in this way. That is correct. When DiscourseConnect is enabled, users can only login via the DiscourseConnect authentication provid…

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) September 23, 2024, 5:45am 2

Go to https://forum.example.com/u/admin-login

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