I’m using a “custom database” connection and have implemented all the action scripts. Everything works fine, except for one thing. If a user tries to sign up, but already exists in my external system, they will get a vague error like “an error occurred during signup”. This is very confusing and I wa…

Hi @martinmaillard , Welcome to the Auth0 Community! I understand that your users are seeing a vague error whenever they attempt to sign up but already exist in your Custom Database and would like to inform your users that they already have an account. Before we continue, I’d like to emphasize tha…

Custom database: signup returns vague error when user already exists

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Custom database: signup returns vague error when user already exists

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