Connect Discourse Auth with my Django user DB?

[funfake (William)]

Hi ! I’m really interested in Discourse for my ecommerce platform.
It would provide a great helping section for my users.
I’ve seen that Discourse has it’s own Auth methods. I was wondering if I could modify these in order to enable logins/registers through my platform (only).

Do you think it’s a great idea to split auths for better user management ?

Thanks for your answers.

[hawm]

You may try

DiscourseConnect - Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

(Feb 2021) ‘Discourse SSO’ is now ‘DiscourseConnect’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso_... rather than discourse_connect_... The DiscourseConnect protocol allows you to completely outsource all user registration/login in Discourse. The Problem Many sites wishing to integrate with a Discourse site want to keep all user registration in a separate site. In such a setup all login operations should be outsourced to that di…

[funfake (William)]

Thanks for your reply. This topic is interesting. I imagine that someone already thought about Django-SSO so it shouldn’t be that hard to link Discourse with it.
I’ll keep your informed if I found my way into this.

[emrysr (Emrys Roberts)]

found this link while googling the same issue (might be of use to django devs)

Integrating discourse into Django site?

@vinothkannans Thanks for posting that link. However, it isn’t available or is private. Do you know if that example for sso with Django is available publicly? @bartv any links / more thoughts you could share on examples of sso between Django <> Discourse Thanks!

[shawnngtq (Shawn Ng)]

@funfake

I am currently looking for a way to integrate Django allauth and discourse. Did you manage to find a way? Please share

[foobarbecue (Aaron Curtis)]

Did you find a way to link django auth with discourse? I’m trying to do the same thing (using dj-rest-auth with allauth and django rest framework)