# Discourse-saml as sole login method

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-saml-as-sole-login-method/66916>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 27, 2017, 11:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-saml-as-sole-login-method/66916 "2017-07-27T11:12:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-saml-as-sole-login-method/66916/5 "2017-07-27T14:09:14Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’m pretty sure that SAML plugins supports all of those settings. It’s still SSO.

Nope, and this is a too common mistake.

SAML on Discourse is not SSO, it’s just another login strategy, like Facebook, Google or Email/Password.

If you want to use it as the one true login, I really recommend implementing our native SSO protocol.

But, if you are felling adventurous, you can try to hack on the SAML plugin to add the SSO features one by one. I recently added the group sync feature from SSO to the SAML plugin.

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