First time login for a user using API KEY

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Hi All,

I am using Discourse as a backend only there is no discourse UI involvement. To use API, I am using username and global api key to hit the request.
I am facing 1 problem that is whenever a new user is created in my OIDC provider(Keycloak), I just cannot use it’s username in my API. Discourse is not recognising the user.
I tried to debug this and realized that discourse also creates a user when a user successfully login from OIDC for the first time and it shows banner on UI that account successfully created. After this only I can use the username to hit the API.
I want to automate this flow without need of UI. Basically I mean, If a user is created in my OIDC platform then without using UI, I should be able to use it’s username and global api key to hit my request. I am open for hitting additional API.

Any leads will be helpful.
Thanks in Advance!!

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As you suspect, you’ll need to create the user with the API. Sync DiscourseConnect user data with the sync_sso route might help. If not, see Search results for 'create user api' - Discourse Meta, or maybe the good old Reverse engineer the Discourse API

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DiscourseConnect will not work in my case, because at a time either OIDC or Discourse Connect can be used. I tried reverse engineering the discourse api.
The URL is:- Genius

It has following payload:-
{
name: testuser
email: test@xxxxxx.com
username:discoursetestuser3
password_confirmation:2290e67e2f59d6b9a0edbc735cef0e1d
challenge:598d41761746371257a4c89d5ac61260
timezone:Asia/Calcutta
}

I am not able to understand “password_confirmation” and “challenge” parameters. Any idea what is this ?
Both of these parameters are dynamic and there is no fixed value that I can pass. This is random.