Hello, We were wondering what the best practice is for migrating user ids. Currently, we are using a system of randomly generated user ids (~20 characters). I know that auth0 generates an identifier that looks like this 102437854499766869014 (21 characters). In terms of security, we looked into uu…

Yes, you can use app_metadata to store external IDs associated with the user. It is recommended as one of the uses in the docs: Understand How Metadata Works in User Profiles The app metadata is not automatically exposed to the application in an ID Token, but you can return it to the app by adding …

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Best practice for migrating user ids

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