# Protect knowledgebase with external authentication provider

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/protect-knowledgebase-with-external-authentication-provider/18906>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/protect-knowledgebase-with-external-authentication-provider/18906 "2020-02-19T22:28:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![finn](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/finn/32/102498_2.png) [@finn](https://community.hubspot.com/u/finn)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/protect-knowledgebase-with-external-authentication-provider/18906/1 "2020-02-19T22:28:24Z")

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Use case: a user is authenticated in an external SaaS application. He then needs to access a knowledgebase that should only be accessible for paying customers and not the general public. If this kb is hosted on Hubspot, then it should be possible to use a third-party authentication (using JWT, SAML, Oauth or other mechanism) to provide this user with a single-sign-on experience.

As it is right now, the user needs one set of credentials for the main SaaS application and then a second (and different!!) set of credentials to access a protected knowledgebase in Hubspot.

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**Author:** ![expr3ss](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/expr3ss/32/74736_2.png) [@expr3ss](https://community.hubspot.com/u/expr3ss)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/protect-knowledgebase-with-external-authentication-provider/18906/2 "2020-07-07T02:27:01Z")

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I would love to see this implemented.  
As an alternative, perhaps, a single-use authenticated URL could be returned from your API - forgive me if I have missed that this already can be done!

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_White](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/cathy_white/32/93181_2.png) [@Cathy\_White](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Cathy_White)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2020, 6:04am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/protect-knowledgebase-with-external-authentication-provider/18906/3 "2020-07-07T06:04:52Z")

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Hi @finn  
We’re looking for something similar.

After some digging, I found a similar request here: [https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Enable-SSO-for-Private-knowledge-base-articles/idi-p/…](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Enable-SSO-for-Private-knowledge-base-articles/idi-p/304599) which shows that it’s _in planning_