Are you able to provide some assistance with adding Single Sign On to my Discourse instance? I have a website with existing clients, and I would like to add a button to my discourse community that allows them log in/register with their existing credentials. Thanks.
Thanks Jeff. I think I may have asked the wrong question. I do not want to replace the existing auth options ie Google, Facebook, Email form, etc. I want to add another button which allows the user also use their existing credentials on my site. Your official SSO topic suggests using OmniAuth:
https://github.com/omniauth/omniauth
My Discourse instance is hosted by you guys, so how would I implement this?
Thanks
Sounds like you will need to use the oauth2 plugin this is only available on the business/enterprise plans. If you are on the standard plan just lets us know and we can upgrade you to business.
Ok, please upgrade to the business plan.
What is the name of your site? I can’t seem to find it by your name or email in our system?
Cool. So how do we implement the oath2 plugin?
Kwame
Take a look at this guide:
The plugin has been installed and you can change the settings for it in your admin site settings. You will need to update it with values from your OAuth2 provider.
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I still have no idea how to do this. Like I said in my earlier email, the website that I am trying to authenticate with is my existing website (app engine site). It does not have OAath endpoints so how will I implement this. Do I need to build my own OAuth implementation from scratch and add it to my web site!
Yes, your existing app will have to implement OAuth.
So my app uses app engine, Python. Do you have any sample code I might use to get started?
Sorry, we’re all ruby developers. DuckDuckGo suggests this might be a good place to start:
Uses the discourse-sso Node.js library:
https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-contrib-id-sso/blob/master/lib/discourse.js
You don’t need OAuth per se.
Yes sso would be easier to setup than oauth2, but also depends what you are trying to accomplish:
If you have sso set up you will lose your other sign in methods via google, twitter, etc.
Also @Kwame_Iwegbue just want to make sure you knew that the business plan is $200/month since I didn’t state that earlier you can see more info on http://discourse.org/buy if the oauth2 plugin doesn’t end up working out just let us know and we can downgrade you back to the $100/month standard plan.
SSO won’t allow multiple concurrent login methods, that’s the Single in Single Sign On.