diff --git a/netbox/netbox/settings.py b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
index ebe3e7d5c..0c3b1660b 100644
--- a/netbox/netbox/settings.py
+++ b/netbox/netbox/settings.py
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ for param in dir(configuration):
 
 # Force usage of PostgreSQL's JSONB field for extra data
 SOCIAL_AUTH_JSONFIELD_ENABLED = True
-
+SOCIAL_AUTH_CLEAN_USERNAME_FUNCTION = 'netbox.users.utils.clean_username'
 
 #
 # Django Prometheus
diff --git a/netbox/users/utils.py b/netbox/users/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..114d8ab6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/netbox/users/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from social_core.storage import NO_ASCII_REGEX, NO_SPECIAL_REGEX
+
+
+def clean_username(value):
+    """Clean username removing any unsupported character"""
+    value = NO_ASCII_REGEX.sub('', value)
+    value = NO_SPECIAL_REGEX.sub('', value)
+    value = value.replace(':', '')
+    return value