Community login issue

[Martin_Cash]

I had two reports today of members that keep getting redirected to the “activate your email” page whenever they sign in. I talked to my SSO authentication guy and it looks like a problem with Discourse validating thier identity. Can someone take a look?

[Martin_Cash]

I found the last discussion around this…I haven’t tested it yet.

SSO Authentication Issue with differently cased emails

Today, I had a case of a member that would be redirected to the “confirm your email address” page every time they signed in to Discourse. They are able to sign in to other assets that use our authentication method just fine. After some digging, we found that the email address stored in Discourse and on our authentication server had capital letters which they don’t actually type when signing in to anything. I had the member change their ID to lowercase and now they can sign in to Discourse witho…

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Hmm can you check this code path @techapj for any place it is incorrectly case sensitive?

[techAPJ (Arpit Jalan)]

This was a legitimate issue. Fixed via:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b21d5d3633b36ee0d2b1c4ee3f572775a022e43c

Thanks for reporting this issue @Martin_Cash

The fix will be deployed on your instance soon.