# Questions Regarding Account Authentication Methods **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-account-authentication-methods/80091 **Category:** Support **Created:** [February 8, 2018, 8:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-account-authentication-methods/80091 "2018-02-08T08:44:57Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 4
### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh) #### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 10:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-account-authentication-methods/80091/4 "2018-02-08T10:56:46Z")
> [@jd2066](#): > > Can an account’s authentication method be changed after it’s created? You can log in with multiple providers as long as they share the same email. E.g. I can use either Google or GitHub on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org) to log into the same account because I have the same email on both services. It is however currently not possible to attach multiple OAuth providers to one profile. You can track this request here: > [@Ability to connect with OAuth providers when user is registered?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ability-to-connect-with-oauth-providers-when-user-is-registered/42457): > > Some OAuth2 providers don’t provide email thus user have to fill the form to login. After filling out the signup form, a new user will be created and connected with this provider. But that situation hurts when a user have been registered, it can’t connect with this OAuth2 provider. In particular, a customer comes to me for building a integration with an external service for Discourse. Therefore, I am willing to have a way to let user connect with a Oauth2 provider in the user settings as well … > [@jd2066](#): > > 1. If a user uses another authentication method, can they be automatically logged in upon visiting the Discourse site? Might be possible with a special [SSO setup](https://meta.discourse.org/t/official-single-sign-on-for-discourse-sso/13045) or plugin but we have no plans to do automatic authentication. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/questions-regarding-account-authentication-methods/80091)._