Hi guys, I’m coming in to pick your brains on something :brain: We are setting up SSO between our no-code platform and our to-be Discourse forum. All’s working great, so yay on that. We are now, however, thinking about whether we should also keep Discourse’s ‘basic’ login via email + password. My …

[image] Michaela: it might end up in duplicate accounts if someone uses an A email address to create the community account and later on a B email address to register with us. I would hope that the majority of users would use the same email address :crossed_fingers:. For the few that do end up…

Thanks for the replies, guys! Please excuse my lack of technical knowledge @RGJ but I believe it’s Custom OAuth2 that we configured between our product and our community :slight_smile: @david I mean I’d hope so as well but people are strange creatures haha. I am very much in love with the ‘merge’ …

[image] Michaela: people are strange creatures I 100% agree with you that people are strange. You have to make it easy for each person. Once they struggle to register or login, they tend to leave it. You have to cater for everyone tho. SSO login, email login, social media login, etc

[image] Michaela: believe it’s Custom OAuth2 that we configured In that case it can indeed be combined with other login methods so you can completely ignore my previous comment.

[image] RGJ: In that case it can indeed be combined with other login methods so you can completely ignore my previous comment. Haha, good to know, thanks! [image] IAmGav: Once they struggle to register or login, they tend to leave it. That’s what I’m thinking as well. There are, howev…

[image] David Taylor: they could always ask an administrator to ‘merge’ the accounts via the Discourse admin panel. [Screenshot 2022-02-07 at 10.16.16] I’ve used it several times on my forum. Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but at a time, when I was merging to/from (?) an account with a l…

[image] Coin-coin le Canapin: It was two years ago, but since then I’m now so afraid to merge through the interface that I always do it through the rake task, unless the two accounts to merge both have very little content. Do you have any info on that @david ? Many improvements have been made…

A community of a no-code tool: SSO vs login via email

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) February 7, 2022, 11:46am 3

If you are referring to DiscourseConnect with “SSO” then you don’t have an option since enabling DiscourseConnect will disable all other login methods.

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A community of a no-code tool: SSO vs login via email

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