# SSO integration & external profile sync help

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-integration-external-profile-sync-help/62457>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [10. Mai 2017 um 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-integration-external-profile-sync-help/62457 "2017-05-10T19:03:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brock\_Busby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/brock_busby/32/118746_2.png) [@Brock\_Busby](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brock_Busby)\
**Post date:** [10. Mai 2017 um 19:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sso-integration-external-profile-sync-help/62457/1 "2017-05-10T19:03:46Z")

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Hi Community - we have a successful SSO integration currently. When users are created on our site, it creates the user on Discourse, but we need some direction on the following:

1. We noticed the options for SSO payload updating bio, email, avatar, etc. and it will be refreshed on login. Users will be able to update these settings on their external profile. How do we sync these updates when they save on their external profile?
2. Is there a way to have these syncs happen in the backend? When a user logs in, and while the sync happens, we display a message to the user. This can be problematic since it can take longer than we’d like and gives opportunity to interrupt the sync with a refresh or closing the tab.
3. Discourse auto log out: by default, Discourse logs users out after 1440 hours. We do not auto log out our users on our external site and must manually log out. Anyone have any advice or warnings here? e.g. the user deletes their cookies/sessions will that be an issue?

Thanks in advance all!

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