# Storing extra data about a user's session

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-extra-data-about-a-users-session/115197
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 16, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-extra-data-about-a-users-session/115197 "2019-04-16T10:16:44Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/storing-extra-data-about-a-users-session/115197/3 "2019-04-16T10:27:17Z")

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Could you simply have a plugin put another table in place and use it for this extra data key on the auth token id? I don’t feel comfortable over generalising a solution here quite yet. Granted the plugin you are describing is not super easy to build, but it is doable.

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