# Managing group membership via authentication

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-group-membership-via-authentication/175950
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 13, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-group-membership-via-authentication/175950 "2021-01-13T06:50:24Z")
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### Author: ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2021, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/managing-group-membership-via-authentication/175950/14 "2021-03-19T15:48:58Z")

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Following this with interest — and throwing this in as related [Does `sso overrides groups` work with Oauth2?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-sso-overrides-groups-work-with-oauth2/175606)

For my use case, I’d be perfectly happy with the [Discourse Connect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) behavior to be implemented for other auth providers.

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