Mapping "external names" to usernames vs names when using SSO

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Hi,

I’m right in the middle of setting up a trial Discourse instance and this includes configuring SSO with the user accounts on an external server. These user accounts must have an email / password, and they may have an optional name and avatar. That name is not guaranteed to be unique and can contain arbitrary UTF8 including whitespace.

Looking at the docs, I have no idea if this “external name” should be mapped to the Discourse “name” or “username”? I assume Discouse usernames have to be unique and can’t contain whitespace, so I may have to use “name”. But then what happens if the SSO’ed Discourse accounts have a name but no username?

Thanks for any help!

PS: I plan to enable all the “sso overrides” settings so that things remain in sync.

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Map your external names to sso name. It will generate unique username automatically

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Thanks for the help.