# Automatically assigning users to a group

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-assigning-users-to-a-group/45164
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [June 2, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-assigning-users-to-a-group/45164 "2016-06-02T22:03:16Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 11:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-assigning-users-to-a-group/45164/4 "2019-01-28T11:31:56Z")

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This is now supported, read our SSO documentation for full info.

> [@Setup DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045):
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> [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) is a core Discourse feature that allows you to configure “Single Sign-On (SSO)” to completely outsource all user registration and login from Discourse to another site. Offered to our [pro, business and enterprise hosting customers](https://discourse.org/pricing). information_source (Feb 2021) ‘[Discourse SSO](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true)’ is now ‘[DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true)’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso\_... rather than discourse\_connect\_... The Problem Many sites wishing to integrate wit…

You can assign users to groups or reset the list of groups a user belongs to direct from the SSO payload.

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