Hi I am trying to achieve SSO for the following scenario. My application authenticates users agains auth0. Once authenticated, whenever the user visits the discourse page, I expect the user to be logged in silently without having to re-enter credentials (using the credentials from the initial logi…

This works if you make your site login required. However you lose the ability to be crawled by search engines.

Hey @shahidmir :wave: Just wanted to jump in with a quick comment: your best bet is to set up a RWA in Auth0 and use the official Discourse OAuth 2 Basic Plugin . We, at Auth0, have a similar setup where our customers can login to the Auth0 Dashboard, Support Center, and Community with a single Auth…

hi, thanks very much for that. regards shahid

Hi @fadymak , thanks for the info. A walk through would be super helpful on how to set up this integration more fully. I’ve managed to fumble my way through with a combination of the readme from the OAuth2 plugin and video tutorial on the Auth0 site, but I’m a bit stuck on the JSON User Endpoint pa…

For anyone else who gets stuck, I received the following from Auth0 support: Hi Ruth, In this case, the fields map as follows: oauth2 json user id : user_id oauth2 json username : username oauth2 json name : name oauth2 json email : email The oauth2_user_json_url would be the userinfo …

Hi fady, After trying a few different approaches, I have finally come back to this approach you suggested :slight_smile: It all hangs together nicely now, expect one thing. After the first successful login (after account creation in discourse), when i try to login again, the lock widget opens up …

@fadymak seems like i can get around this issue by adding the “openid” scope to the API that im using in auth0. Is this the correct approach?

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Silent login/signup via Auth0

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