I’d like to set up something simple outside Discourse that would allow login using the Discourse username/password combination. Is it possible to use the API to check whether the provided username/password combination is valid? Or can you suggest some other way round this? I’d prefer to keep using…

[image] Jonathan5: Or can you suggest some other way round this? I’d prefer to keep using Discourse as the main source of usernames/passwords. There is Use Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect) .

Use Discourse API to check whether username/password combination is valid

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maiki (maiki) November 21, 2022, 9:35pm 2

There is Use Discourse as an identity provider (SSO, DiscourseConnect).

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Use Discourse API to check whether username/password combination is valid

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