Howdy, I’m pre-populating users in Discourse from an integrated SSO external system and would like to mimic the username creation process in Discourse. Currently, I’m having to create usernames like so, where the number is the unique user id. u12345678 u23456789 I tried using portions of name o…

[image] SwisherSweet: Does anyone know what the logic is and/or can point me to the code in GIT that performs the magic? Here you go: lib/user_name_suggester.rb bb0fa5abb module UserNameSuggester GENERIC_NAMES = ['i', 'me', 'info', 'support', 'admin', 'webmaster', 'hel…

Only if you don’t supply a valid username.

Ok - so if we use SSO (Auth0) and when it goes to create a username, if there’s one already existing in Discourse with that name then it will create a different one, like a variation?

Recreating the single sign on logic for generating usernames

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jerdog (Jeremy M) January 5, 2018, 1:36pm 3

So if I understand this correctly, Discourse automagically does this when you have SSO setup/integrated?

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Recreating the single sign on logic for generating usernames

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