Can Discourse function as an oAuth provider for a system like Rocket.Chat? I’m still trying to figure out what the difference is between oAuth, SSO, and what all the terminology means. Basically, we need Discourse to host the user database, and another chat system (maybe Rocket.Chat, maybe something…

OAuth provider is a completely different thing. It’s not supported. And OAuth provider is rather complicated which takes a lot of effort to build.

Can Discourse be used as an OAuth provider?

Falco (Falco) January 28, 2019, 1:47pm 9

Discourse to Discourse SSO already works out of the box for years.

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