Disable signups not functioning as expected

[ej.rudy]

I have an application that leverages a Username-Password database connection. I have some custom onboarding logic, so I want to disable the “Sign up” options that appear on the Auth0 default login screen.

I was able to find the “Disable public signups” on the settings for this connection, which explicitly states “You will still be able to create users with your API credentials or from the dashboard.”.

This unfortunately is not the case, because upon hitting the POST /dbconnections/signup endpoint I get back an error that says the user could not be created due to public sign ups being disabled.

This is a bit maddening. Any help is appreciated.

[tyf]

Hey there @ej.rudy, welcome to the community!

@ej.rudy

I was able to find the “Disable public signups” on the settings for this connection, which explicitly states “You will still be able to create users with your API credentials or from the dashboard.”.

The setting you referenced refers to public signups which is related to the /dbconnections/signup as you’ve experienced. You should still be able to create users in your Auth0 dashboard and/or Management API’s create user endpoint.

Some more information on the difference here:

Signup vs Create User APIs. Which to use?

The two APIs are categorized as the public Authentication API, and the secured Management API. If you have a custom sign up/login page in your application, you can simply use the public /dbconnections/signup endpoint. The Management API /api/v2/users is mainly used by backend services or administrative applications which may need to create users in advance, or without them explicitly signing up. Because this is a secured endpoint, Management API calls require a valid access_token to be generate…

Hope this helps to clarify!