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 dis…

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. …

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 ther…

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

Login from another user database

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Tom_Newsom (Tom Newsom) Septembre 2, 2016, 11:47 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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