# Auto Login enabled for public facing community?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-login-enabled-for-public-facing-community/223559
**Category:** 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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### Author: ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2022, 9:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-login-enabled-for-public-facing-community/223559/5 "2022-04-07T09:15:10Z")

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> [@BaneWilliams](#):
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> 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.
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> 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)

I’m afraid the general answer is still largely the same as last time

> [@Auto-sign-in with the OpenId Connect Plugin and AWS Cognito](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-sign-in-with-the-openid-connect-plugin-and-aws-cognito/145170/8):
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> It is technically possible in the OIDC specification, but unfortunately Discourse does not currently support it.

The spec I was talking about is [OpenID Connect Session Management](https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-session-1_0.html). Unfortunately, that iframe-based solution is becoming increasingly less useful because many browsers are now blocking third-party cookies by default. It now only works reliably if your identity provider and Discourse have the same ‘origin’.

As @simonk said, depending on your identity provider it might be possible to implement something custom via a theme component, but I’m not aware of any general solution we could add to Discourse itself.

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