# Associating with SCM account

As a System Administrator, you can explicitly associate an SCM (Source Control Management) account with a SonarQube user account.

{% hint style="info" %}
SonarQube Community Build users can view the SCM accounts associated with their account: see [viewing-user-profile](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/user-guide/managing-your-account/viewing-user-profile "mention").
{% endhint %}

## About the SCM account association <a href="#about-associated-scm-accounts" id="about-associated-scm-accounts"></a>

SonarQube Community Build associates users with SCM (Source Control Management) accounts to automatically assign issues to users:

* If SonarQube Community Build delegates the authentication to a third-party identity provider, this association is done through the delegation. However, you can associate the user with additional SCM accounts.
* If no delegation is used, SonarQube Community Build recognizes the SCM account from the SonarQube account’s Login and/or Email address. If it cannot perform the association (or if you want to associate other SCM accounts with the user account), you can do it explicitly.

To add an SCM account to a SonarQube Community Build user account, you associate the SCM account’s login name or email address with the SonarQube Community Build account.

{% hint style="warning" %}
You should not associate the same SCM account with several SonarQube Community Build accounts; otherwise, SonarQube Community Build may not be able to properly assign issues to SonarQube Community Build users. In particular, this means that you should not configure the same email address in several SonarQube Community Build user accounts (Note that the email address check is case-insensitive in SonarQube Community Build). To ensure a proper issue assignment, SonarQube Community Build may reject a user login attempt, for example, if a SAML user logs in with an email address that is associated with a local user (In this case, the error "This account is already associated with another authentication method" is raised).
{% endhint %}

## Adding an SCM account to a SonarQube Community Build user account <a href="#adding" id="adding"></a>

1. Got to **Administration > Security > Users** and retrieve the user. For more details, see [viewing-users](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/user-management/viewing-users "mention").
2. In the user’s **Actions** column, select the three-dot menu.
3. Select **Update (SCM) details**.
4. Near **SCM Accounts**, select **Add**. A box is displayed.
5. In the box, enter the SCM account’s login or email address.
6. To add another account, re-select **Add**, etc.
7. Select **Update**. The added SCM accounts are displayed in the **SCM Accounts** column as illustrated below.

The figure below shows:

1. The user's login name and email address.
2. The login name or email address added to the user account as *SCM account*.

<figure><img src="broken-reference" alt="The Security > Users menu allows you to manage the SCM account association"><figcaption></figcaption></figure>

## Related pages <a href="#related-pages" id="related-pages"></a>

* [viewing-users](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/user-management/viewing-users "mention")
* [overview](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/authentication/overview "mention")
* [solution-overview](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/user-guide/issues/solution-overview "mention")
* [overview](https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/authentication/overview "mention")


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-community-build/instance-administration/user-management/updating-scm-details.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.