diff --git a/src/lib/models/user.ts b/src/lib/models/user.ts
index 5e906ff48..d9ec8098a 100644
--- a/src/lib/models/user.ts
+++ b/src/lib/models/user.ts
@@ -15,33 +15,9 @@ import {
 } from 'sequelize-typescript'
 import { generateAvatarURL } from '../letter-avatars'
 import { logger } from '../logger'
+import { PassportProfile, ProviderEnum } from '../web/auth/utils'
 import { Note } from './note'
 
-// core
-
-export enum ProviderEnum {
-  facebook = 'facebook',
-  twitter = 'twitter',
-  github = 'github',
-  gitlab = 'gitlab',
-  dropbox = 'dropbox',
-  google = 'google',
-  ldap = 'ldap',
-  oauth2 = 'oauth2',
-  saml = 'saml',
-}
-
-export type PassportProfile = {
-  id: string;
-  username: string;
-  displayName: string;
-  emails: string[];
-  avatarUrl: string;
-  profileUrl: string;
-  provider: ProviderEnum;
-  photos: { value: string }[];
-}
-
 export class PhotoProfile {
   name: string
   photo: string
diff --git a/src/lib/realtime.ts b/src/lib/realtime.ts
index bee9b0774..d16e474ee 100644
--- a/src/lib/realtime.ts
+++ b/src/lib/realtime.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import { History } from './history'
 import { logger } from './logger'
 import { Author, Note, Revision, User } from './models'
 import { NoteAuthorship } from './models/note'
-import { PhotoProfile, PassportProfile } from './models/user'
+import { PhotoProfile } from './models/user'
 import { EditorSocketIOServer } from './ot/editor-socketio-server'
 import { mapToObject } from './utils'
 
diff --git a/src/lib/web/auth/oauth2/oauth2-custom-strategy.ts b/src/lib/web/auth/oauth2/oauth2-custom-strategy.ts
index 191e521cb..a502efbb5 100644
--- a/src/lib/web/auth/oauth2/oauth2-custom-strategy.ts
+++ b/src/lib/web/auth/oauth2/oauth2-custom-strategy.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { InternalOAuthError, Strategy as OAuth2Strategy } from 'passport-oauth2'
 import { config } from '../../../config'
-import { PassportProfile, ProviderEnum } from '../../../models/user'
+import { PassportProfile, ProviderEnum } from '../utils'
 
 function extractProfileAttribute (data, path: string): string {
   // can handle stuff like `attrs[0].name`
diff --git a/src/lib/web/auth/utils.ts b/src/lib/web/auth/utils.ts
index 025b21478..4c957ef5c 100644
--- a/src/lib/web/auth/utils.ts
+++ b/src/lib/web/auth/utils.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Profile } from 'passport'
-import { User } from '../../models'
 import { logger } from '../../logger'
+import { User } from '../../models'
 
 export function passportGeneralCallback (
   accessToken: string,
@@ -48,3 +48,26 @@ export function passportGeneralCallback (
     return done(err, undefined)
   })
 }
+
+export enum ProviderEnum {
+  facebook = 'facebook',
+  twitter = 'twitter',
+  github = 'github',
+  gitlab = 'gitlab',
+  dropbox = 'dropbox',
+  google = 'google',
+  ldap = 'ldap',
+  oauth2 = 'oauth2',
+  saml = 'saml',
+}
+
+export type PassportProfile = {
+  id: string;
+  username: string;
+  displayName: string;
+  emails: string[];
+  avatarUrl: string;
+  profileUrl: string;
+  provider: ProviderEnum;
+  photos: { value: string }[];
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/web/note/util.ts b/src/lib/web/note/util.ts
index 51fd9bca2..ca54c1780 100644
--- a/src/lib/web/note/util.ts
+++ b/src/lib/web/note/util.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import path from 'path'
 import { config } from '../../config'
 import { errors } from '../../errors'
 import { logger } from '../../logger'
-import { Note, User } from '../../models'
-import { PassportProfile, PhotoProfile } from '../../models/user'
+import { Note } from '../../models'
+import { PhotoProfile } from '../../models/user'
 
 export function newNote (req, res: Response, body: string | null): void {
   let owner = null
diff --git a/src/lib/web/userRouter.ts b/src/lib/web/userRouter.ts
index 93f38f7e5..6abb77b62 100644
--- a/src/lib/web/userRouter.ts
+++ b/src/lib/web/userRouter.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { Note, User } from '../models'
 import { logger } from '../logger'
 import { generateAvatar } from '../letter-avatars'
 import { config } from '../config'
-import { PassportProfile, PhotoProfile } from '../models/user'
+import { PhotoProfile } from '../models/user'
 
 const UserRouter = Router()