Run NodeBB along with my website using my website's auth system.

[kblade@community.nodebb.org]

Hi,

I am creating a website for e-learning purposes on the MEAN.JS stack and want to add NodeBB as the community part.

But as NodeBB has its own authentication system and so does my website, is there a way to sync the two. I don't want to keep the NodeBB login/register system but only of my website and users logged into my website should be loggedin to NodeBB as well.

I have been going through the NodeBB code and haven't been able to figure it out. Can anyone help me with this please.
My questions are

• Is it possible to make NodeBB sync with my auth system?
• if so, then how can I go about with it, without modifying much of NodeBB?

Thank you

[xcausxn@community.nodebb.org]

If you configured OAuth for your authentication system then you could use this plugin by julian

https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-sso-oauth

Well to my knowledge that is

[kblade@community.nodebb.org]

xCausxn I am going to try out what you have said. But, I also wanted to know if this will work for Social logins on my website?

The users on my website can use Facebook, Google+ or local login to register to the website and use it. Now if I create the oauth system on my server, will it also be able to handle FB logins?

Sorry, I am pretty new to all this and still am figuring things out. Even if you can point me to the right direction, I'd be grateful.

[ben-stokes@community.nodebb.org]

kblade said in Run NodeBB along with my website using my website's auth system.:
> Hi,
>
> I am creating a website for e-learning purposes on the MEAN.JS stack and want to add NodeBB as the community part.
>
> But as NodeBB has its own authentication system and so does my website, is there a way to sync the two. I don't want to keep the NodeBB login/register system but only of my website and users logged into my website should be loggedin to NodeBB as well.
>
> I have been going through the NodeBB code and haven't been able to figure it out. Can anyone help me with this please.
> My questions are
>
> Is it possible to make NodeBB sync with my auth system?
> if so, then how can I go about with it, without modifying much of NodeBB?
> Thank you

I had the same question when I was looking into integrating NodeBB with my own web app. I also wanted to avoid having two separate login/register systems and instead rely on my site’s existing authentication so that users could seamlessly log in to both. The default NodeBB setup doesn’t make this obvious, and I wasn’t sure if it could sync without a lot of custom code. From what I’ve read, people usually suggest looking into SSO plugins or writing a custom authentication strategy so that NodeBB accepts your existing session or token. But like you, I was hoping to do this with minimal modification to NodeBB itself. I’d really appreciate it if anyone who has implemented this could share the best approach, whether it’s using passport, JWT, or something else that plays nicely with NodeBB. I know I am reviving a very old thread because somebody has already asked that question please help

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Ben-Stokes you'll want to use NodeBB-plugin-sso-oauth2-multiple or nodebb-plugin-session-sharing