I migrated a phpbb forum to Discourse and then used SSO in order to have everyone log in through our organization’s site, where they already had accounts. This worked great for those who had used the same email address to sign up for the organisation and for the forum, but not great for those who us…

Thanks, I was hoping that there was an easier option because I don’t need to merge accounts in 99% of cases (since the new accounts are empty and should be deleted), I just want the SSO to log them into their old accounts. Merging them, especially per the second quote, is only a far second on the pr…

@codinghorror , any idea of what I’d have to change in the database so that the SSO logs them into their old accounts? Just changing the email address doesn’t seem to be enough. And is there any chance of a graphical interface for making this change, e.g. as part of the admin edit profile function?

I’d suggest deleting the account created by SSO and updating the old account with the correct email address, so that it matches the one used in your SSO system. You can do all of this in the UI.

Merge/change accounts after SSO

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gerhard (Gerhard Schlager) 13 באפריל,‏ 2018,‏ 10:13am 2

Unfortunately there’s only a command line option right now: Rake task for merging users

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Merge/change accounts after SSO

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