Using Stormpath as an SSO Provider for Discourse

Sat, 25 Apr 2015 16:58:39 +0000

Stormpath: User Auth & Management as a Service [UAMaaS?]

Discourse: an open source forum, designed for reading

SSO: single sign-on; “… a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.” [src]

As we’re moving toward an open beta for the company’s new product, web work to promote, support, and disseminate information is ramping up. I was tasked with using Stormpath as the SSO provider for our Discourse forums. If I made a mistake with this configuration, I would be locked out of any settings panel on the Discourse side. The only way to regain access would be ssh-ing into the Discourse box and executing some commands from irb. The catch was that no one knew the address for that hosted box. The solution?

Not a White Power Band on New Schematic

Using Stormpath as an SSO Provider for Discourse