We are using Discourse with SSO and are creating users via the API. There is concern that if we leverage the email address for the username it will be easy to guess personal emails at gmail so we’d like to just create unique usernames by using First Name + a Number (eg Bill1, Bill2, Bill3) and user…

We are using Discourse with SSO and are creating users via the API. Clarification: Are you using Discourse Connect or creating the users by hand? It kind of sounds like you’re doing more work than you need to. Using Discourse Connect is probably easier and then you can let Discourse itself find…

Thanks for your response @supermathie . We are using Discourse connect and as it turns out whenI send Bill two times the second Bill is created as Bill1 so it looks like I’m good. Appreciate your help!

[immagine] Earnie: when I send Bill two times the second Bill is created as Bill1 Exactly! The most important thing is keeping your external ID unique for the user. pass in a “sensible” username and let Discourse do the work.

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supermathie (Michael Brown) 2 Maggio 2024, 9:48pm 4

Esatto! La cosa più importante è mantenere il tuo ID esterno univoco per l’utente. Inserisci un nome utente “sensato” e lascia che Discourse faccia il lavoro.

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