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

Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

Discourse now ships with official hooks to perform auth offsite. 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 different site. What if I would like SSO in conjunction with existing auth? The intention around SSO is to replace Discourse authentication, if you would like to add a new provider see existing plugins such as: Vk.com login (vkontakte) Enablin…

[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.