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Comment:Expanded the SSO discussion in the new forum.wiki document
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User & Date: wyoung 2018-08-08 19:09:26.221
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2018-08-08
19:22
Added the "Skin Setup" section to the new forum.wiki document ... (check-in: 3ec8f0a960 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
19:09
Expanded the SSO discussion in the new forum.wiki document ... (check-in: dd0a2dd3d3 user: wyoung tags: trunk)
18:58
Fixed some incorrect uses of Markdown backticks in a document declared as wiki format. ... (check-in: 76ca1f829f user: wyoung tags: trunk)
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to grant the Moderate Forum capability (5) to an uncommonly
highly-trusted user.


<h3>Single Sign-On</h3>

If you choose to host your discussion forums within the same repository
as your other Fossil-managed content, you inherently have a single
sign-on system. Contrast a mailing list or a third-party forum system,
where you either end up with two seaprate user tables and permission
sets, or you must go to significant effort to integrate the two login
systems.

You may instead choose to host your forums in a separate repository from
your other assets, as may be done for a public project where very few of
those participating in the forum have special permissions for assets
managed by Fossil for the project itself.


Or, you may split the difference, hosting the forum in a separate
repository from the other assets yet use Fossil's login groups feature
to get single sign-on for both repositories.  You might choose to do


this to remove the forum traffic from the size of the main respository's
clones, for example.


<h3>Email Notification</h3>

See [./emaildesign.md | the email notification design document] for now.
More administration-oriented documentation TODO.









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to grant the Moderate Forum capability (5) to an uncommonly
highly-trusted user.


<h3>Single Sign-On</h3>

If you choose to host your discussion forums within the same repository
as your project's other Fossil-managed content, you inherently have a
single sign-on system. Contrast third-party mailing list and forum
software where you either end up with two separate user tables and
permission sets, or you must go to significant effort to integrate the
two login systems.

You may instead choose to host your forums in a separate Fossil
repository from your other assets. A good reason to do this is that you
have a public project where very few of those participating in the forum
have special permissions for assets managed by Fossil for the project
itself, so you wish to segregate the two user sets.

Fossil offers a way to split the difference: you can host your forum in
a repository separate from your other Fossil-managed content yet still
have single sign-on for that common set of users that will have logins
on both repositories. Simply enable Fossil's login groups feature in
Admin &rarr; Login-Group, which allows one Fossil repository to
recognize users authorized on another repository.



<h3>Email Notification</h3>

See [./emaildesign.md | the email notification design document] for now.
More administration-oriented documentation TODO.
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