# External SSO provider login link

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-provider-login-link/48392>\
**Category:** SSO\
**Created:** [09.Август.2016 11:30:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-provider-login-link/48392 "2016-08-09T11:30:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dominic\_Hargreaves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Dominic\_Hargreaves](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dominic_Hargreaves)\
**Post date:** [15.Август.2016 14:46:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/external-sso-provider-login-link/48392/5 "2016-08-15T14:46:40Z")

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The user visits our main site. They may choose to log in with google accounts, github accounts or internal accounts specific to our site. They might also choose not to log in.

They then choose to visit our discourse instance via a link on our main site.

if they are logged in with an external SSO provider the link on our site should point to a link on discourse which automatically initiates the SSO login sequence with the same provider, if they are not already logged into discourse.

Otherwise, they are sent to the main discourse page, and can log in manually if they choose.

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