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 a SSO provider

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

[pv0 (Paul Vincent)]

Thank you so much Vinoth!