# Can't get avatar overrides to work over SSO

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 24, 2016, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705 "2016-07-24T09:41:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 9:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cant-get-avatar-overrides-to-work-over-sso/47705/1 "2016-07-24T09:41:45Z")

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I can’t get the avatar overrides to work over SSO.

My SSO procedure works fine in all other respects. I am able to override a user’s full name, for example, but not the avatar.

Here are the parameters I’m passing (in addition to the nonce, user id and email):

```plaintext
array:4 [▼
  "username" => "aarmstrong"
  "name" => "Alex Armstrong"
  "avatar_force_update" => true
  "avatar_url" => "http://www.amicalnet.dev/assets/img/uploads/alehandrof-profile-pic.jpg"
]

```

I have `sso overrides avatar` enabled. I have `automatically download gravatars`, `allow uploaded avatars` and `external system avatars enabled` disabled.

I’ve read every the [main topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse/13045) about SSO as well as all topics about avatars and SSO that I could find, but I don’t see what I might be doing wrong.

In case it matters, I’m doing this locally. So Discourse, using Vagrant, is at [http://localhost:4000](http://localhost:4000) and my site is at [http://www.amicalnet.dev](http://www.amicalnet.dev). I’m using [cviebrock’s PHP SSO helper](https://github.com/cviebrock/discourse-php).

I’m out of things to try. Any ideas?

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