How to connect my (existing) User Database?

[mertins-mir (Frank Mertins)]

Hi all,

I have already an existing Webseite with a User DB. How can I use the Users from this DB to log into Discourse? It would be the best that they are automatically logged in, when the are already logged into my Website.

My Problem at the moment is, that the PW in my DB is encrypted and I can’t push them via Curl into Discourse. Is there a best practice article somewhere?

Thanks for your help!

Frank

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

If you want to move them to discourse, rather than use sso, you can use an import script and Migrated password hashes support

But you want to keep your old site, so you want sso.

[mertins-mir (Frank Mertins)]

I don’t want to move them, they should stay in our DB becuse new registrations are comming in through our Website.

How can I create a custom SSO?

[erlend_sh (Erlend Sogge Heggen)]

Like so:

Official Single-Sign-On for Discourse (sso)

Discourse now ships with official hooks to perform auth offsite. The Problem Many sites wishing to integrate with a Discourse site want to keep all user registration in a separate site. In such a setup all Login operations should be outsourced to that different site. What if I would like SSO in conjunction with existing auth? The intention around SSO is to replace Discourse authentication, if you would like to add a new provider see existing plugins such as: Vk.com login (vkontakte) Enabling …