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cornOnDaJaCob04
cornOnDaJaCob04

Reputation: 33

deleting user, problems with reauthenticating firebase

Hello I'm trying to reauthenticate the user before they delete their account but I'm having one problem I can't seem to solve; how do I obtain the user's password if I didn't save it since that would be a privacy issue. I've seen other posts about this but they don't mention how they got the password. This is my code for deleting account:

const onDeleteAccountPress = () => {        
    firebase.database().ref('users/'+userId).remove()
    var userReauth = firebase.auth().currentUser

    const credential = firebase.auth.EmailAuthProvider.credential(userReauth.email,userProvidedPassword)
    userReauth.reauthenticateWithCredential(credential)
    for(let i =0; i < goalCounter; i++){
        firebase.database().ref('goals/'+(courseGoals[i].id)).remove()
    }

    userReauth.delete()
    .then(function(){
        props.navigation.navigate('Login');
        props.navigation.reset({ index: 0, routes: [ { name: 'Login' } ] });
    }).catch(function(error){
        console.log(error)
        console.log('there is something wrong')
    })
    
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 356

Answers (1)

Peter Haddad
Peter Haddad

Reputation: 80914

When the user logs in, you can store the password inside localStorage, then if the user wants to delete the account, you can get the password from the storage and pass it to the EmailAuthProvider.credential() method.

Upvotes: 0

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