# SSO vs Oauth2 difference?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-vs-oauth2-difference/76543
**Category:** SSO
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-vs-oauth2-difference/76543 "2017-12-21T08:09:33Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-vs-oauth2-difference/76543/5 "2017-12-22T02:04:25Z")

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Yeah if there is only one way to login we bypass a screen so you don’t have to “click” and then “click” when logging in.

Our default [GitHub - discourse/discourse-oauth2-basic: A basic OAuth2 plugin for use with Discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-oauth2-basic) supports a lot of stuff, but is not as rich as SSO. So it depends on how much information you want to drive from oAuth2.

If basic is not good enough you will need to build another custom plugin to fish out the rest of the fields or do a PR to our official basic plugin.

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