# SSO & external avatars

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-external-avatars/192392>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 11:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-external-avatars/192392 "2021-06-02T11:44:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrewH](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/drewh/32/222752_2.png) [@DrewH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DrewH)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-external-avatars/192392/2 "2021-06-02T14:05:09Z")

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I believe disabling `download_remote_images_to_local` should solve your issue, although this will also serve images within posts remotely instead of locally.

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