# Overriding avatars with OIDC

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291
**Category:** SSO
**Tags:** openid-connect
**Created:** [February 1, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291 "2024-02-01T09:40:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Wilson\_Ho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/wilson_ho/32/273946_2.png) [@Wilson\_Ho](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Wilson_Ho)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2024, 9:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291/1 "2024-02-01T09:40:52Z")

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Is there any way this plugin could overrides avatar, just like [DiscourseConnect](https://meta.discourse.org/t/13045?silent=true) does?

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### Author: ![sreenu\_paruchuri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sreenu_paruchuri/32/514616_2.png) [@sreenu\_paruchuri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sreenu_paruchuri)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291/2 "2025-08-25T18:09:29Z")

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can any one suggest and answer for this, we have image url comes from OIDC userinfo response, want to map to avatar\_url of discourse.

In OpenID Connect claims text area i added oidc\_claims\_avatar: ProfileImageUrl but it din’t worked.  
if any one has suggestions let me know

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### Author: ![pmusaraj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pmusaraj/32/119489_2.png) [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2025, 4:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291/3 "2025-09-02T16:51:14Z")

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This should be addressed now via [FEATURE: managed auth can override avatars (#34123) · discourse/discourse@b1ea35b · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/b1ea35bb30ecfcea5ae39304ba28ccd185d95b01), please report if it doesn’t work for you.

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### Author: ![sreenu\_paruchuri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sreenu_paruchuri/32/514616_2.png) [@sreenu\_paruchuri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sreenu_paruchuri)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2025, 9:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/overriding-avatars-with-oidc/304291/4 "2025-09-10T09:16:57Z")

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hi  
Using the code you change, how i can map the avatar\_url to the custom field comes from userinfo response on oidc  
I will get like this ImageUrl: ‘[https://image.com/a.jpg‘](https://image.com/a.jpg%E2%80%98)