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user1141796
user1141796

Reputation: 334

Firebase user created by someone else

In my application, it should be possible to add new users by other users.

  1. I'm having the problem that I can't just create an account - Firebase Authentication - with a random password for this new user, because it will automatically log in with this new account, using createUserWithEmailAndPassword.

  2. If I just create a new doc in the usercollection (with the name, birthday, ... linked to an account's id), and afterwards this user creates an account (Firebase Authentication), I will need to check every collection's docs where this usercollection's docid is used and replace it with the created uid from createUserWithEmailAndPassword. Also not a bulletproof solution...

Any advice on how to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 494

Answers (1)

Jen Person
Jen Person

Reputation: 7566

I suggest you use the Firebase Admin Auth SDK to create a new user server-side. This means you will have to implement some server-side solution if you don't already have one. An HTTP-triggered Cloud Function would be a good option. If you're new to Cloud Functions, the samples on GitHub are a good place to start. A very basic version of your function could look like this:

exports.createUser = functions.https.onRequest(async (req, res) => {
  const email = decodeURI(req.query.email);

  await admin.auth().createUser({
    email: email,
    password: "password", // however you're planning on creating the password goes here
  })
});

Your code will be more complex, but it's a starting point.

Upvotes: 2

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