I can't tell if this is a feature that SMF has or not. Lets say you have a website myforum.com that uses SMF and has a bunch of users.
Does SMF have any sort of OAuth authentication scheme setup where a 3rd party website coolwebsite.com could use OAuth and have users login to coolwebsite.com using their myforum.com credentials? Or a way for users oncoolwebsite.com to link their account to their account on myforum.com?
This is similar to what Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc offers, where 3rd party websites can request users to login using their Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc logins.
Does SMF have functionality like this or are there plugins for it or anything like that?
2.0 has openID, this has been removed in 2.1 though.
if you want to log in using any of those websites you need a mod to do so. it will not be part of SMF core.
It is, however, possible to use SMF to serve that authentication to your other website with SMF's REST API
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=458832.0
Quote from: margarett on April 08, 2015, 07:14:05 PM
It is, however, possible to use SMF to serve that authentication to your other website with SMF's REST API
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=458832.0
So one could make a REST request using a username/password combination to the forum website's API and get a true/false return?
I'm not totally sure about the details but it has to be something like that, yes ;)