# OIDC users not associating with existing Discourse users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/oidc-users-not-associating-with-existing-discourse-users/383894
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** openid-connect
**Created:** [September 24, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oidc-users-not-associating-with-existing-discourse-users/383894 "2025-09-24T15:25:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 5

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Mike73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mike73](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mike73)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2026, 5:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oidc-users-not-associating-with-existing-discourse-users/383894/5 "2026-05-04T05:06:35Z")

</div>

Hello everyone,

I was able to find out why the assignment wasn’t working. If anyone else needs to solve this problem, here’s my solution.

The submitted email address is not marked as “verified” by default. To achieve this, I went to the Admin area under OpenID Connect providers → Settings and set the value for “Email address verification in the token” to “Always check”.

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oidc-users-not-associating-with-existing-discourse-users/383894)._