Looking for some sort of Single Sign On or auto-login from our system. Can Xenforo do that?

[tim06]

We are looking to add a forum to our small Saas business. Im really hoping that Xenforo has a single sign on ability or a way to authenticate a user that is currently signed into out software and not have to sign in again into a forum to post. Looking through the API docs, I didnt see anything. You can create users, delete, etc...but not do a sign in.

Is there a way to do that with XF?

Thanks
Tim

 

[Paul B]

It's not something which is natively available in XF, yet.

 

[tim06]

 

[beerForo]

yet.

 

[beerForo]

a major XF 2.3 feature is awaiting my review (one of the major popular ones from the first page of the Top suggestions list) and much more already in the bag.

 

[tim06]

Well... we wont write of XF from the list then. Our developers can probably code it but sure would be nice to have native support. I read that ThemeHouse has some integration that may work as well.

 

[James]

@beerForo don't start making @Brogan throw his trademarked Soon out!

 

[Forsaken]

Well... we wont write of XF from the list then. Our developers can probably code it but sure would be nice to have native support. I read that ThemeHouse has some integration that may work as well.

They have an OAuth addon, however it is never recommended to rely on a plugin for something that you're going to be heavily dependent on for core functionality unless you're maintaining the addon yourself (or have someone contracted to).

 

[beerForo]

Well... we wont write of XF from the list then.

I wouldn't. They can't say anything until it's announced (as a Have You Seen? thread) but the "yet" is telling, and it's also the "Top" suggestion.

 

[tim06]

They have an OAuth addon, however it is never recommended to rely on a plugin for something that you're going to be heavily dependent on for core functionality unless you're maintaining the addon yourself (or have someone contracted to).

Thanks for the advice.

 

[Wildcat Media]

@beerForo don't start making @Brogan throw his trademarked Soon out!

Scan my avatar and you'll get the standard response to when "soon" is.

 

[Kirby]

I wouldn't. They can't say anything until it's announced (as a Have You Seen? thread) but the "yet" is telling, and it's also the "Top" suggestion.

Kinda OT, but:

Personally I'd expect WebP support and / or Dark Theme as there have been some hints to both features and those would probably benefit a lot of customers while SSO might not be smth. that is generally useful.

That being said, I definitly wouldn't mind if XenForo could act as a OIDC identity provider - that would be nice (especially for the API).

 

[beerForo]

Dark has been unofficially announced already it will be in 2.3. A total rehaul of the style will be in 3.0.