Changing Certain Profile Attributes Terminates Session

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Problem Statement

We noticed that the user session was terminated after updating the profile information.

Symptoms

User is logged our after using the PATCH /api/v2/users/[id] endpoint

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Login a user to your tenant.
  2. PATCH the user’s email_verified, email, password or phone number (if using SMS passwordless)
  3. Attempt a prompt=none /authorize request

Cause

This is expected behavior as of the current design. As documented here,

“Generally, you clear an Auth0 session by diverting users to the /logout endpoint. However, if you call the Update a User endpoint to reset user attributes (passing values email , email_verified , phone_number , and password ), auth0.checkSession does not renew the session, and the user must re-login.”

Solution

Avoid patching these profile attributes with users who currently have a session. If users update their email_verified by clicking the link in a verification email, their session will not end so this is the ideal route.

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