# Find user by external ID (SSO)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-user-by-external-id-sso/18330>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 31, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-user-by-external-id-sso/18330 "2014-07-31T20:06:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![michael28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michael28/32/33744_2.png) [@michael28](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michael28)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-user-by-external-id-sso/18330/1 "2014-07-31T20:06:26Z")

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For those of us making use of SSO, being able to find a user by their external ID would be very helpful. It would make linking profiles etc. much more straightforward in cases where username requirements may not fully map 1:1.

From my current understanding, external\_id isn’t currently stored in the User model, but is passed as part of the payload. Could this data also be saved to the user model directly?

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