[nodebb-plugin-sso-steam] Steam/OpenID register/login

shinyidol

@julian tried updating to this and causing my nodebb instance to stop. ideas?

a_5mith

@shinyidol the pull request Julian submitted hasn't been committed yet, so it's technically not fixed yet. You've got two options, you can either wait until the plugin developer accepts the changes, or you can fork the plugin and make the changes manually to your forked version. I'm not sure if there's an unwritten rule when it comes to taking over inactive plugins. As the old plugin would still exist.

shinyidol

@a_5mith yeah. i did a fork and manually updated and it didn't work

Jurjee

I haven't tried it myself but will check it out later today to see if it does work for me.

julian

Only the first one (#6) is required, #7 is just a renaming of the module for cosmetic purposes.

You can try to install my fork by running the following:

$ npm install git+https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-openid-steam.git

If at a late date you want to uninstall it: npm unl nodebb-plugin-openid-steam, or just remove it from the ACP.

shinyidol

@julian appreciate the help, but not working. Running 0.43. Removed all previous versions. Then ran the npm command above. Clicking on Steam still takes to 404 error.

julian

@shinyidol Just want to confirm it is installed: npm ls nodebb-plugin-openid-steam?

shinyidol

@julian i think so.

root@blog:~/nodebb# npm ls nodebb-plugin-openid-steam
[email protected] /root/nodebb
[email protected] extraneous (git+https://github.com/julianlam/nodebb-plugin-openid-steam.git#3c81e2c58720bd111d1949cadda1e602834616dc)
npm ERR! extraneous: [email protected] /root/nodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-openid-steam
npm ERR! not ok code 0

julian

@shinyidol Ugh, sorry about that, silly mistake. Please re-install.

When you re-install and run npm ls on that package again, the git hash should be: ca32b1a6e87b0682572c2cbf4400a17e42e1f4a4

shinyidol

@julian Well that got the 404 resolved. i was able to add my steam key and save it. but no additional login option becomes available.

julian

@shinyidol Once you save the steam key, a restart is required to load the new values into NodeBB

Radon

@julian Thanks for the tips on installing the git version. Now the admin panel options work

@nanoVapor Is there a way to link existing accounts, eg Admins, to their steam account without having to reregister etc. It would be nice for existing users to link to their steam account, then use either their previously registered acc or their steam account for Auth/login. Sorry if this is already answered, and thanks for the Steam auth plugin, great job!

julian

@Radon If your steam email matches the email you used to previously register on NodeBB, then the accounts should automatically merge...

Radon

@julian said:

@Radon If your steam email matches the email you used to previously register on NodeBB, then the accounts should automatically merge...

I thought the steam api couldn't give you e-mail information as the API is public. I don't see any e-mail checking in the source for the plugin either. Not to mention the fact that my steam e-mail and my user e-mail are identical anyway ( Even if my node bb account e-mail wasn't confirmed at the time ).

julian

Mm... in that case, then it would be impossible at this point in time to detect the account association. At a later date, we may add in the ability to do so via the user profile page, though that is not currently a priority.

Radon

@julian Friend of mine managed to associate the steamID with his existing account by using redis-cli. I believe that all the editing could be done by the plugin author, it just needs to be involved a little more during the registration process and possibly add some items to the profile page to allow association. I don't think this is truly a NodeBB issue. Thanks for the reply though.

Xandaros

Friend of mine

Hi
Well, there are actually quite a few issues with this plugin. If you set your steam nick to an account name already existing on the forum, your account gets created successfully. The username:uid and userslug:uid tables, however, get updated aswell, making a click on the profile of the original account redirect to yours and making them unable to login. (See https://github.com/igorprado/nodebb-plugin-openid-steam/issues/9)
Similarly, you can't register if your steam nickname contains special characters and what if you don't want to use the steam name you have at the moment? Some people change their steam name like their underwear.

I tried changing it so you get redirected to a new page where you enter your username and E-Mail address if you log in via steam as a new user. However, I have absolutely no experience in JavaScript and I started playing around with NodeBB today, so I couldn't figure out how to add the template properly and how to redirect to that. (And no idea where to go further, too… I'm probably not the right guy for this job, yet)

Another issue is the one @Radon mentioned earlier, where there is no way to link your steam account with your account.
Maybe add a little button to the profile? (Should be possible with filter:posts.custom_profile_info, maybe?)
And probably a similar button for unlinking (which admins should be able to turn off, I guess)

Alankrit Choudhary

I am getting login errors after configuring steam api

http://i.imgur.com/TNd59h5.png

and after that when u click yes sign in i get
http://i.imgur.com/FQ2kAC2.png

Can u look into it . I need this plugin to work real bad for my gaming forum to work

Here is the link http://dota2hub.net/login
You can check it by yourself.

julian

@Alankrit-Choudhary What's your domain name set to? What URL does it send you to?

Edit: Seems to have logged me in alright

Alankrit Choudhary

This is the domain name it is set too

It sends me to dota2hub.net/404