Discourse as OpenID Connect provider

[TechGeek]

It will be wonderful if there is official support to use Discourse as OpenID connect provider either by enhancement on top of Discourse Connect or a plugin.

Communities thrives on lots of interactions and interactions happens on various platforms, leading to accounts scattered around at multiple places.

[Falco]

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Distrust: Discourse as an OpenID Connect provider

If you ever wanted to use Discourse as your authentication provider - now you can! Over the last week I’ve written a small service which can be used to act as an OpenID connect/OAuth provider with discourse as a backend. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/Parkour-Vienna/distrust Note that my primary use case was to authenticate to Nextcloud using Discourse, so it might not be working for your use case. If something is not working as expected, or it is missing that certain f…

[TechGeek]

Thanks for reference @Falco. Having it in built feature along with Discourse Connect will be great.