diff --git a/social_core/backends/fence.py b/social_core/backends/fence.py
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+
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+from social_core.utils import cache
+
+from ..utils import append_slash
+from .open_id_connect import OpenIdConnectAuth
+
+
+class Fence(OpenIdConnectAuth):
+
+    name = 'fence'
+    ID_KEY = 'username'
+    ACCESS_TOKEN_METHOD = 'POST'
+    DEFAULT_SCOPE = ['openid', 'user']
+    JWT_DECODE_OPTIONS = {'verify_at_hash': False}
+
+    def _url(self, path):
+        return urljoin(append_slash(self.setting('URL')), path)
+
+    def authorization_url(self):
+        return self._url("oauth2/authorize")
+
+    def access_token_url(self):
+        return self._url("oauth2/token")
+
+    @cache(ttl=86400)
+    def oidc_config(self):
+        return self.get_json(self._url(".well-known/openid-configuration"))
+
+    def get_user_details(self, response):
+        return {
+            'username': response.get('preferred_username'),
+            'email': response.get('username'),
+            'fullname': response.get('name'),
+            'first_name': response.get('given_name'),
+            'last_name': response.get('family_name'),
+        }