Remah
(Just another happy Discourse user)
February 3, 2019, 9:03pm
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I’m not sure why you haven’t got a response here. Unless others are waiting for you to do some simple searches on this site. Anyway, I hope this helps as I’m no expert on SSO.
SSO or SAML connection will be by setting an SSO/target URL at Discourse.
Have you read these topics on Discourse and off-site SSO?
(Feb 2021) ‘Discourse SSO ’ is now ‘DiscourseConnect ’. If you are running an old version of Discourse, the settings below will be named sso_... rather than discourse_connect_...
The DiscourseConnect protocol allows you to completely outsource all user registration/login in Discourse.
The Problem
Many sites wishing to integrate with a Discourse site want to keep all user registration in a separate site. In such a setup all login operations should be outsourced to that di…
As the administrator of a forum that is using DiscourseConnect, you may occasionally get reports from users that when they attempt to login to the forum, they are greeted by this screen:
[20%20AM]
Enabling verbose discourse connect logging
To debug the issue, the first thing you need to do is to enable the ‘verbose discourse connect logging’ Site Setting on Discourse. If this setting was previously enabled, you can go directly to your site logs at Admin/Logs/Error Logs. If the setting was not …
Did you find the SAML plug-in ?
https://meta.discourse.org/t/adding-saml-sso-as-an-option-but-not-enforced/47035?u=remah
And here’s a comment about preferring SAML over CAS. Interestingly enough, by the author of this software to help with CAS to Discourse:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/cas-auth-via-the-sso-api/23381/9?u=remah
Much like the comment above. Note that has useful explanations unrelated to Ruby on Rails:
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