# Email activation when using SSO

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-activation-when-using-sso/28861>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** sso, approval, discourseconnect\
**Created:** [May 15, 2015, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-activation-when-using-sso/28861 "2015-05-15T14:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-activation-when-using-sso/28861/4 "2015-05-16T02:10:17Z")

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We have definitely seen people get in trouble when they enable SSO but do not validate emails or have a captcha on signup.

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