Hi! I’m trying to set up Discourse with the Discourse OpenID Connect plugin and Keycloak. I’ve managed to make it work, and was able to not only login to my Discourse instance using my Keycloak credentials, but also associate an already-existing Discourse account with the one from OIDC. Unfortunate…

OIDC users not associating with existing Discourse users

pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) September 24, 2025, 5:57pm 2

Are you using the same email address between the accounts? Can you reproduce this issue with a fresh account that wasn’t associated with Keycloak before?

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OIDC users not associating with existing Discourse users

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