# Login to Discourse with custom Oauth2 provider
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** oauth2, completed
**Created:** [12 april 2014 om 12:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717 "2014-04-12T12:55:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [22 december 2017 om 02:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717/22 "2017-12-22T02:38:30Z")
SSO means: “I trust «other\_site» to rely on ALL of my authentication and rely on it exclusively for this purpose.”
That other site could be anything - it could be your Corporate SSO site, it could be [something horrible that trusts users completely](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bratwurst-the-wurst-possible-production-sso-provider/72343), it could be a provider that requires an RSA key with certificates, heck it could even be [(another) Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-discourse-as-a-sso-provider/32974).
oauth2 means: “This is a login option for my site” such as Google oauth2.
If what you’re trying to do is this:
then you want to do as @sam [mentioned](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-vs-oauth2-difference/76543/5) and use the plugin (possibly extending it to specifically support your OAuth2 provider.
But if what you’re trying to do is this:
Then you need to write “SSO Provider” as Discourse doesn’t _care_ what’s behind it.
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### Author:  [@leog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leog)
#### Post date: [22 december 2017 om 03:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717/23 "2017-12-22T03:17:55Z")
Super clear. Thanks for taking the time to include diagrams, really neat!
🙇♂️
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [29 februari 2020 om 15:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717/24 "2020-02-29T15:50:23Z")
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [6 juli 2020 om 11:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717/25 "2020-07-06T11:12:42Z")
> [@beanieboi](#):
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> how can i skip the registration and directly create the account?
> [@leog](#):
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> seamless experience for my customers but seems like there is no way around it. Any other suggestion to accomplish this?
I just added some new settings which makes this possible:
> [@Automatically provision accounts with external SSO provider? (skip Create New Account prompt)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automatically-provision-accounts-with-external-sso-provider-skip-create-new-account-prompt/134511/6):
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> I just added some new site settings which will help with this. To skip the ‘create new account’ screen, enable sso\_overrides\_username, sso\_overrides\_email and sso\_overrides\_name. Then to skip the popup completely, enable external\_auth\_skip\_create\_confirm If you don’t see that option, make sure you’re on the latest version of tests-passed.
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [6 juli 2020 om 17:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/login-to-discourse-with-custom-oauth2-provider/14717/26 "2020-07-06T17:00:03Z")
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