Linking to pre-loaded user details

[mark.hall]

Is it possible to pre-load some minimal user creation details, e.g. just email and some user_metadata, perhaps via the API and have this be linked to a social user when they first sign in?

[dan.woda]

Hi @mark.hall,

What do you mean pre-load? Send them as a request from the app? or have the user input them from the login form?

[mark.hall]

Hi @dan.woda,

We would send as a request to the Auth0 API from the app.
Onboarding users is likely to be done as a batch job for our system.

Regards
Mark

[dan.woda]

@mark.hall,

Hmmm well it is not possible to create user’s for an upstream IDP like google or facebook.

You can create a database user and link the account like this:

Manually creating users for social login

Hi, We’re looking into how to programmatically create new users and receive an Auth0 ID and have that user receive a link to finalize the process by using social login (e.g. Google). We want to avoid sending a “reset password” email and we’d ideally want to enforce the possible sign-in methods at user creation. The flow should be: Admin creates a user with an email “user@gmail.com” We can programmatically assign the user to specific internal resources given the Auth0 ID User receives a “W…

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Another solution would be to create a rule that enriches their profile the first time they log in. The rule would make a call to your backed / API with their email and your backend would respond with the data and add it to their app_metadata.

[mark.hall]

Thanks - that makes sense.

[dan.woda]

Let me know if you have any questions about it.