How to import pre-sso discourse users?

SSO
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Hi,

I have the admin user which was created before discourse was set to use SSO.
How could I possibly “convert” it to an SSO user?

Thanks,
Michael

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Just use the same email that SSO is going to send to Discourse.

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To clarify: There is no difference between “SSO users” and “regular users”.

The only difference is in whether Discourse knows the external id of the user. When logging in a users, Discourse proceeds like this:

  1. Do I know a user with this external id? If so, log him in, and possibly update his email.
  2. Otherwise, do I know a user with this email? If so, remember his external id, and log him in.
  3. Otherwise, create a new account.
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This is very helpful. I am starting a discourse site and am wanting to use SSO but I’d like to defer it for a while longer – but want to make sure I won’t have any problems switching over to it.

My plan is to bulk invite users using the email address that my primary site uses, and then later what I hear @fefrei saying is that when I turn SSO on, I shouldn’t have any problems.

Does that sound correct? Thanks!

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This is still correct and Discourse matches the users up the first time they sign in, unless your site does not validate email addresses (and reports this to Discourse).

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