kblade said in Run NodeBB along with my website using my website’s auth system.:
> Hi,
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> I am creating a website for e-learning purposes on the MEAN.JS stack and want to add NodeBB as the community part.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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