Login alternatives

[chrrr]

Hi. My university is currently working on embedding (hosted) Polis conversations on parts of its intranet. The university uses Sharepoint, so Microsoft Single Sign-On to login. I was wondering if there's a way to include Microsoft as a login option (alongside Facebook and Twitter) for hosted conversations or if there are any plans to support this.

[patcon]

Hey @chrrr ! You might find some helpful information in this thread:
#97

The tl;dr is that it requires some development of a "wrapper app" which a polis conversation is embedded into

There's some sample code in PRs that hasn't been merged yet (but which I recall works) in the polis-examples repo:
https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis-examples/pulls

Feel free to followup on any questions here 🙂

[chrrr]

Thanks @patcon !

[MauiJerry]

There is no polis-examples repo as of Dec2023. Is there any other examples out there somewhere? Some fork'd repo?
I also need to use (multiple) alternative login credentials (Msoft, Google, etc) for a project that is self hosted.

[metasoarous]

Hi @MauiJerry; Thanks for pointing this out. Please see an updated answer here, and let us know in response to that answer if further clarification is needed.

#1518 (comment)

[metasoarous]

The repo at https://github.com/compdemocracy/polis-embed-examples explains and demonstrates how Polis' XID and embed system works. Using this system, you can build a webpage which authenticates participants using whatever identity provider you like. Once logged in via your site, you would create an XID value (typically a UUID/GUID, but could be anything) associated with each user, and utilize that in the Polis conversation embed code. This system is extremely flexible and allows you to implement any identity system you can imagine, but does take some set up work and is not really "turnkey".

The only system other than XID which we might consider adding out of the box support for is OpenID Connect (see #1750), since it is a standard that many identity providers would support. Please reach out if you'd like to work on or sponsor this feature.

Thanks!