On our forum, we created a custom group for users with a certain email domain. My understanding was that new users who join the site with this domain would automatically be added to the group. However, it doesn’t seem to be functioning in an automated fashion. Right now I have to go to Group > Membe…

@sam this is the same as the other recent report, where these rules aren’t consistent.

Yes, we are using the official SSO for Discourse.

I think this is the bug. When you were updating emails via SSO cause you have sso_overrides_email enabled the auto group membership was not taking. It would take for initial user creations. Note, there is the whole “retroactive” concept that is massively confusing, we should probably just remove …

I would suggest that you manage those groups with sso and push them when they log in.

Automatic addition of users to group based on email domain

Support SSO

sam (Sam Saffron) April 7, 2020, 10:45pm 3

Looks like an SSO bug to me

Can you confirm you are using Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

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Automatic addition of users to group based on email domain

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