# Auto Login enabled for public facing community?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-login-enabled-for-public-facing-community/223559>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 7, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-login-enabled-for-public-facing-community/223559 "2022-04-07T01:53:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-login-enabled-for-public-facing-community/223559/1 "2022-04-07T01:53:47Z")

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I’ve noticed a few posts on this, with most of them saying it is a feature only available for closed communities [Auto-sign-in with the OpenId Connect Plugin and AWS Cognito - support - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-sign-in-with-the-openid-connect-plugin-and-aws-cognito/145170)

[How to auto-login user in application web view - dev / sso - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-auto-login-user-in-application-web-view/193879)

We are hoping to have a community where you only get an account as part of our product registration process, but we want to make the content of the forum visible so that way if people are trying to self help via google they can get an appropriate result while being unauthenticated. (also so we can potentially hit some SEO targets for our content)

Is this possible or is it a pipe dream? It seems like I’m not the first person to ask this question, or desire this product capability.

edit: In particular I’m talking about this specific aspect of OIDC specification - [Auto-sign-in with the OpenId Connect Plugin and AWS Cognito - #8 by david](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-sign-in-with-the-openid-connect-plugin-and-aws-cognito/145170/8)

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