# "Fake" OAuth Provider?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/fake-oauth-provider/212116>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 14, 2021, 10:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fake-oauth-provider/212116 "2021-12-14T22:57:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![cookieman768](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cookieman768/32/118511_2.png) [@cookieman768](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cookieman768)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2021, 4:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fake-oauth-provider/212116/7 "2021-12-16T16:35:22Z")

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Oh, that’s really useful - thank you for sharing! So, I did some more thinking and research on _how_ I could do this, what I’m thinking is using the `state` parameter with OAuth to have people sign in to their Discourse account and then use that state to associate the UUID in Minecraft. The state would just be some randomly generated value that would exist in a database with the Minecraft UUID. I think this approach _should_ work. Thank you everyone for all the ideas and resources!

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