diff --git a/lms/envs/common.py b/lms/envs/common.py
index 3bc762636b98..820e4ecd9f65 100644
--- a/lms/envs/common.py
+++ b/lms/envs/common.py
@@ -4411,6 +4411,8 @@ def _make_locale_paths(settings):  # pylint: disable=missing-function-docstring
     # Set this value to an empty dict in order to prevent automatically updating
     # user data from values in (possibly stale) JWTs.
     'JWT_PAYLOAD_USER_ATTRIBUTE_MAPPING': {},
+    # Allows JWT authentication to find the LMS user id for verification
+    'VERIFY_LMS_USER_ID_PROPERTY_NAME': 'id',
 }
 
 ################################ Settings for rss_proxy ################################