# SSO for College Account
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087
**Category:** SSO
**Created:** [2016年八月1日 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087 "2016-08-01T23:05:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Mohorovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richard_Mohorovich)
#### Post date: [2016年八月1日 23:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/1 "2016-08-01T23:05:35Z")
Hello,
Still waiting for reply on setting this up for forum from school. SSO for students using their student account.
[SSO help page for School](http://it.sheridanc.on.ca/sso/docs/developer.htm)
Would any be able to provide insight on how to do this? I’ve seen a thread about Shibboleth SSO. Anybody know how much it would cost to get a solution developed?
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [2016年八月1日 23:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/2 "2016-08-01T23:56:15Z")
There’s [a Discourse SAML plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-saml) already, which if you’re self-hosting you can just drop right in. Be warned, though, that SAML itself, and the various implementations thereof, are a complete and utter trash fire, and you’ll likely need to do a certain amount of debugging to get it working right. I don’t think we’ve had an Enterprise customer SAML roll out that hasn’t needed some degree of fiddling to get working.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Mohorovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richard_Mohorovich)
#### Post date: [2016年八月2日 00:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/3 "2016-08-02T00:49:37Z")
Thank you 😃
I’m going to try and figure out how to go about getting it working right. Any suggestions as to where to start? Maybe its beyond my skill level (computer programmer diploma courses).
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [2016年八月2日 00:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/4 "2016-08-02T00:55:28Z")
Well, where are you starting from? Do you have Discourse already up and running, as per [the setup guide](http://blog.discourse.org/2014/04/install-discourse-in-under-30-minutes/)? Have you tried installing [the SAML plugin](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-saml) as per [the relevant howto topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/install-a-plugin/19157)? Have you configured it? How did you configure it? Have you tried to use it? If so, how did it go? What errors did you receive?
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Mohorovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richard_Mohorovich)
#### Post date: [2016年八月2日 00:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/5 "2016-08-02T00:58:41Z")
I have Discourse up and running. Tomorrow I will try installing the SAML plugin as per the relevant howto topic.
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Mohorovich](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richard_Mohorovich)
#### Post date: [2016年八月8日 03:10 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/6 "2016-08-08T03:10:30Z")
Sorry, should’ve mentioned this sooner. I have final exams and project deadlines nearing. So, I’ll have to postpone this a couple weeks till they’re done.
Also, can this be done without support from the college? Or is there information that only they can provide for SSO to work? The intention of using SSO is for easier onboarding, and Sheridan College member validity. The forum is not by the college, but by students for the students.
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [2016年八月8日 03:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-for-college-account/48087/7 "2016-08-08T03:21:33Z")
Every SSO solution I can think of requres some sort of shared secret or other credential to authenticate the portion of the communication between the SSO provider and consumer. So I’m pretty sure you’ll need _some_ sort of cooperation with the college, although if they’re doing SAML correctly, issuing such a credential should not be an undue burden on them (in fact, they should be doing it all over the place already, so one more shouldn’t hurt).