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This is not currently possible. Very generally the local auth provider is for root admin user and test / development. it's recommended to have an external auth provider enabled. With that the avatar associated with the provider's user should be shown

Alright, thanks for the input! Yeah, we do use an external auth provider for all of our human user accounts, but we also have the need for some application user accounts (e.g. for use by backup services etc). I considered creating them as

serviceaccounts

at first, but then I would have to create them for each cluster. Using a local account in Rancher lets me use a single account for access to all downstream clusters and manage its permissions in one single place fairly easily.