Hi, We are in the process of migrating our LMS to OpenEdx which seems to be a great option for us. LMS is just one part of our platform. We are trying to make the auth flow seamless for the users. The problem statement is: We want the users to be authenticated when they come on OpenEdx from our pl…

I’m pretty sure what you’d want to have that middleware do is to update or create an Open edX user record matching your other DB, and then generate a login session from that. Otherwise there would almost certainly be a large number of places in the code that would be trying to look up the user by ID…

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feanil (Feanil Patel) May 23, 2022, 1:58pm 4

@ShreehariVaasishta this topic looks very similar to what we’re talking about over here: SSO Authentication

Is that correct or are you looking for something different?

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