Ooth local: no way to programmatically create a user about ooth HOT 7 CLOSED

That is a good point. Your observation is correct. Looks like this would solve the issue: #49.

If you are in a hurry a workaround could be to create an user via http and then modify it via a command to mongodb. Both steps are ugly, I know 😁

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In our scenario, we'd like to build an interface where an admin user can create other users, but we're running into a host of issues, primarily stemming from a lack of a programmatic interface. Also, calls to the local strategy's register endpoint can only be made by a user who is not already logged in, which kills the ability for us to use the register endpoint from the client-side at all.

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I had this same issue. I ended up studying insides of ooth and creating something similar that is compatable. I have removed the application specific parts but here it is

const generator = require('generate-password');
const OothMongo = require('ooth-mongo');
const {ObjectId} = require('mongodb');
const { hashSync, genSaltSync } = require('bcrypt-nodejs');
const { randomBytes } = require('crypto');
const SALT_ROUNDS = 12;

const HOUR = 1000 * 60 * 60;


function randomToken() {
  return randomBytes(43).toString('hex');
}


function hash(pass) {
  return hashSync(pass, genSaltSync(SALT_ROUNDS));
}

class UserImporter {
  backend: {
    getUserByValue: Function,
    insertUser: Function
  }
  
  constructor(db) {
    this.backend = new OothMongo(db, ObjectId);
  }
   /// call this to create a user
  immmigrate({email, firstName, lastName, phone}) {
    if (typeof email !== 'string') {
      throw new Error(`Invalid email ${email}`);
    }
      
    return this.backend.getUserByValue(['local.email'], email).then(user => {
      if (user) {
        console.error(`This email ${email} is already registered.`);
        return
      }
      const password = generate.password()
      const verificationToken = randomToken();
    
      this.backend.insertUser({
        profile:  {
          firstName,
          lastName,
          phone
        },
        local: {
          email,
          password: hash(password),
          verificationToken: hash(verificationToken),
          verificationTokenExpiresAt: new Date(Date.now() + HOUR)
        },
        roles
      }).then(_id => {  console.info(`User ${email} imported successfully.`);
    });
  }
}

export default UserImporter

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@jonpacker thanks for the feedback, what approach did you end up taking? Is there any library that was helpful to you?

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For the specific case of ooth-local it is now possible to run

ooth.on('register', ({_id, email, verificationToken}) => ...))

await ooth.callMethod('local', 'register', { email, password })

The general idea is that every method registered with ooth.registerMethod can now be called like that.

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For the specific case of ooth-local it is now possible to run

ooth.on('register', ({_id, email, verificationToken}) => ...))

await ooth.callMethod('local', 'register', { email, password })

The general idea is that every method registered with ooth.registerMethod can now be called like that.

What's the ooth.on event callback for "login", that exist?

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