# Create users through API using explicit user ids

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-users-through-api-using-explicit-user-ids/182078>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-users-through-api-using-explicit-user-ids/182078 "2021-03-04T18:30:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/create-users-through-api-using-explicit-user-ids/182078/6 "2021-03-04T21:24:08Z")

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Did I start a new topic or did the other stuff get deleted somehow?

It would seem like the SSO would have the account and would know an external ID that you could use to create the user record and then use that in the future. But if that’s impossible somehow, you could try finding the user by email address–you could even create a second email address that was bogus (since what if they change their real email address?) and then maybe hide it somehow so that you could use that as an identifier going forward.

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