I’m new to discourse, Is it possible validate the login process by customized database information? I have an original service with login/logout mechanism, now I want to create a forum by discourse, and login/logout from the original service’s user database or what’s the keyword to search in discourse forum Thanks

You want to look for “SSO”.

@mpalmer Can I just access to the DB for user authentication, not through the SSO in discourse? I have no idea if this take a large effort or not. Is there any example? Thanks

If you’re asking what I think you’re asking, the answer is “no”.

You’d need to implement OAuth2 on your own system, then use: [image] Discourse OAuth2 Basic Plugin discourse2 Summary Discourse OAuth2 Basic supports basic OAuth2 providers, assuming they have a JSON API endpoint where user details can be retrieved by token. open_book Install Guide This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately. Features This plugin allows you to use a basic OAuth2 provider as authentication for Discourse. It should work with many providers, with the caveat that they must provide a JSON endpoint for retri…

Hi @Tom_Newsom I don’t know which one is a better choice: CAS or OAuth or others As I know, OAuth can separate the resource permission and CAS can only check if login Currently there is not so many resource to separate for OAuth, and seems CAS is simpler than OAuth (Is this correct?) But if there is lots of resource in the future, I may need OAuth rather than CAS What do you think? Thanks

Well now we’re out of my comfort zone. I can’t help you here I’m afraid!

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Tom_Newsom (Tom Newsom) September 2, 2016, 11:47am 6

You’d need to implement OAuth2 on your own system, then use:

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Login from another user database

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