# Customized login auth plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-login-auth-plugin/49691
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 4, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-login-auth-plugin/49691 "2016-09-04T03:39:59Z")
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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/customized-login-auth-plugin/49691/6 "2016-09-04T14:31:13Z")

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The second option is a world of pain, because there are a ton of edge cases in using an external user database, most of which are already handled beautifully by Discourse’s SSO implementation.

Go for option one, and build a thin app to handle SSO. Remember that your users don’t have to know about SSO at all – you can style the login prompt as you wish to make this all seamless 🙂

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