# Avatar is synching only on creation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286
**Category:** SSO
**Tags:** openid-connect
**Created:** [November 15, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286 "2023-11-15T09:00:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@weber-s](https://meta.discourse.org/u/weber-s)
#### Post date: [November 15, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/1 "2023-11-15T09:00:33Z")
Hello there!
I’m using this plugin to sync user from a django site, but the avatar is sync only on creation. If user change it in django, it is not sync in discourse.
In fact, in Discourse `managed_authenticator.rb`, the `retrieve_avatar` return early if the user already have a custom avatar setup:
```rb
def retrieve_avatar(user, url)
return unless user && url
return if user.user_avatar.try(:custom_upload_id).present?
Jobs.enqueue(:download_avatar_from_url, url: url, user_id: user.id, override_gravatar: false)
end
```
Did I missed something or discourse-openid-connect can not update avatar on login?
I also have question for the “website”, “location” and “bio\_raw”. [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) sync it on login, can openidconnect also do it? All are supported in the oidc claims
cheers!
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### Author:  [@humpfhumpf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/humpfhumpf)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2023, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/2 "2023-12-16T22:55:22Z")
Same here, with v3.1.3…
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### Author:  [@jrack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jrack)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/3 "2024-02-14T16:41:49Z")
Yup been battling this one myself on standardizing avatars.
I had hoped to use a custom picture claim from our IdP (Entra) to include the URL to a avatar host that doesn’t have the issue w bearer token auth for download\_avatar\_from\_url like the generic graph.microsoft one does Testing though seems like the plugin stores /userinfo and ignores the JWT picture claim so a bit of a dead end anyways.
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### Author:  [@lewisakura](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lewisakura)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2025, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/4 "2025-08-26T18:38:18Z")
I just realised I should probably post this here but I submitted a PR for this: [FEATURE: managed auth can override avatars by lewisakura · Pull Request #34123 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/34123)
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/5 "2025-09-02T16:50:04Z")
Thanks for the contribution @lewisakura, your PR is now merged!
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [September 15, 2025, 12:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-is-synching-only-on-creation/304286/6 "2025-09-15T12:00:39Z")
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