Discourse SSO via a SimpleSAMLphp authentication module (IdP)

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Thanks for your module! I wrote a Configuration Guide so that people know how to config SimpleSAMLphp and your module. Thanks for your contribution!

Set up your DiscourseConnect(DiscourseSSO) to SimpleSAMLphp, use your Discourse forum as a SAML IDP (Identify Provider)

Discourse has intergrated a DiscourseConnect that allows you to change your Discourse into a SSO provider. You can find it in “Using Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect)” this article. However what it provides is not a standard SAML or Oauth protocol. So we need to use a module that created by Paul B. in Discourse forum. This is a module that allows us connect DiscourseConnect to SimpleSAMLphp and then use SimpleSAMLphp to provide standard SAML login service protocol. In he…