Is Sign Up with Linkedin Possible? Impossible?

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In a discussion titled “Is Sign Up with Linkedin Possible? Impossible?” under the SSO category, frank.manuel asks whether it’s possible to enable “Sign Up with LinkedIn” on Discourse, noting that while a plugin exists for “Sign In with LinkedIn”, he recalls documentation suggesting sign-up wasn’t supported — though he can’t locate it. He’s willing to hire help via the marketplace if needed, and wonders why LinkedIn might be excluded when other providers like Google and Twitter support sign-up. pfaffman expresses surprise if LinkedIn doesn’t support new account creation, since Google auth does. david confirms that the mechanism for signing in and signing up is identical for external providers — meaning the LinkedIn plugin should work the same way as the built-in Google, Facebook, and Twitter integrations, enabling sign-up as well.

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I’ve seen the topic on LinkedIn Authentication Plugin, but that covers only “Sign In with Linkedin”. What I’m looking for is a method to Sign Up with linkedin. I remember trying this before, but found some documentation saying it’s not possible, but I cannot for the life of me find those documentations again.

Before I spend too much more time on this, I’d like to ask if anyone has tried adding this to their Discourse, or if anyone knows if it is/isn’t possible. Will be willing to post a job about this on marketplace to help us enable it in our server, but I imagine that since we allow “Sign Up with ___” for the other associated sites (Google, Twitter, etc), there’s probably a reason they didn’t include LinkedIn.

Any input is appreciated.

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I know that Google auth works to create new accounts. I would be quite surprised if linked in doesn’t also work for new accounts.

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Yep, the mechanism for ‘sign in’ and ‘sign up’ is exactly the same when external providers are involved. The LinkedIn plugin will work exactly the same as the core Google/Facebook/Twitter integrations.