Discourse SSO

Girder plugin for a Discourse Single-Sign-On provider. This enables using Girder authentication for Discourse and avoids requiring users to create an additional account to use Discourse.

See https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse/13045.

Requirements

• Girder 3.x

Configuration

Discourse

Configure the options on the Discourse admin page as follows:

• Set sso url to https://<girder_hostname>/api/v1/discourse_sso.
• Set sso secret to a long random string.
• Enable enable sso.

Girder

Configure the options on the Discourse SSO plugin configuration page as follows:

• Set Discourse SSO secret to the sso secret configured in Discourse.
• If Girder is not configured to verify user's email addresses, enable Require Discourse to confirm email address.