# 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, 8:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-user-by-external-id-sso/18330/2 "2014-07-31T20:10:49Z")

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Did some further digging - storing external\_id is probably redundant as it’s stored in SingleSignOnRecord. Perhaps it would make more sense to add an API endpoint could be added to convert the external\_id to user\_id?

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