This is essentially a repeat of this question, but it has not been answered.
I am trying to create an SSO system between two separate WordPress installs that are on different servers using different databases. The main site has a full database including a users table containing over 300,000 users. Because of the size of the users table, we do not want to replicate each of them on the second site or do a traditional SSO system where each user is created in the database as they login. Ideally, we would like to reference the users table on the main site and use those same users on the second site.
So far I have tried using wp_remote_post() to send a user object to the second site while overriding the pluggable.php functions and setting the $current_user global with the posted user object. This, however, isn't working as well as I'd hoped because the methods that are normally available in the WP_User object are not available in the posted object, which results in fatal errors when methods like $user->exists() are used.
I am aware of the CUSTOM_USER_TABLE solution, but that obviously won't work in this example as the sites are on separate servers with separate databases.
TL;DR: Need SSO. Separate servers. Help.
WP_User
object to make queries to the original DB, you will still add load to it, which is definitely not good for it(considering the amount of load that it should already have). Sorry, I can't help you with that :/ Good luck with it and if you figure it out, post the answer here :)