Reverse Single-Sign-On: Possible to use Discourse accounts on my other site?

[pv0 (Paul Vincent)]

Hello,

I am new here so please be patient if I am not following all your forum rules.

I would like my users to sign in using Discourse so that I don’t have to build my own account management for the main site (for which Discourse will be the forum). Is this possible?

Thank you!

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

Yes it is possible. Check below

Using Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect)

So you want to use Discourse as an identity provider for your own web app? Great! Let’s get started. Enable DiscourseConnect provider setting Under Discourse admin site settings (/admin/site_settings) enable setting enable discourse connect provider and add a secret string to discourse connect provider secrets (used to hash SSO payloads). Implement DiscourseConnect in your web app: Generate a random nonce. Save it temporarily so that you can verify it with returned nonce value Create a …

[pv0 (Paul Vincent)]

Thank you so much Vinoth!