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[Ben Stillman]

This topic came up in discussion last night... With ip.converge, can you link multiple already established sites? For example, www.foruma.com and www.forumb.com have been up and running for several years on vBulletin. Is it possible to convert them both to ip.board, then link them with ip.converge to use single login?

[.Ian]

Yes you can - IP.Converge will handle that for you once converted.

[Cloaked]

Just to restate what Ian said, yes you can. I did with all my forums and it works superbly.

[Ben Stillman]

So what happens when you have users on both pre-existing sites with different passwords? Do their passwords get synced automatically? Is there an option to do this? What about a user on both sites with different usernames?

[Cloaked]

If they use the same email you can merge them on import, ignore them, or merge them later. Passwords are the same. Nothing changes. It is transparent to the users. They don't even know it's there.

I chose to ignore them since they were already in the system anyway.

[Ben Stillman]

Cloaked, on 25 February 2011 - 01:25 PM, said:

If they use the same email you can merge them on import, ignore them, or merge them later. Passwords are the same. Nothing changes. It is transparent to the users. They don't even know it's there.

I chose to ignore them since they were already in the system anyway.

So if userA has password1 on siteA, and password2 on siteB, they remain unchanged? I thought the point of ip.converge was to have single sign-on, meaning the passwords sync?

[Cloaked]

I'm not sure how the backend works. I do know I have a test user with different passwords on all my sites and I can login on all sites using the password from the first converged site. If I login with the same username registered with a different password from one of the other sites it does recognize I was a user in the system and logs me in. Maybe it just created another account in converge at that point. As I don't know what's going on behind the curtain.

There are 2 modes to it also. One is SSO mode. This way one password for all. From reading the docs if you use this mode all users will have to change their password on first login. I don't use that mode. I do know it does what I want it to do. It allows all my users to login to any site I have now with the login they use on any of my communities. It does create a new user account on each forum if the user has never logged in there.

[Ben Stillman]

Cloaked, on 25 February 2011 - 11:04 PM, said:

I'm not sure how the backend works. I do know I have a test user with different passwords on all my sites and I can login on all sites using the password from the first converged site. If I login with the same username registered with a different password from one of the other sites it does recognize I was a user in the system and logs me in. Maybe it just created another account in converge at that point. As I don't know what's going on behind the curtain.

There are 2 modes to it also. One is SSO mode. This way one password for all. From reading the docs if you use this mode all users will have to change their password on first login. I don't use that mode. I do know it does what I want it to do. It allows all my users to login to any site I have now with the login they use on any of my communities. It does create a new user account on each forum if the user has never logged in there.

Gotchya. So it's more of an additional level of authentication, kinda like an LDAP server. The board software looks at the converge account first. If it doesn't authenticate that way, then it looks locally. At least that's what it sounds like.