Hello, for our use case, we are trying to activate both passwordless and password using two different connections. Though, when creating a new database connection, the toggle for “Password” cannot be overwritten.
Flow:
Is this flow possible in the Auth0 dashboard configuration, universal login?
Welcome to the Auth0 Community!
Having both Passwordless and Username/Password Connections for one application is currently not supported out-of-the-box, the main reason being that users can have multiple Auth0 accounts under the same email address, via different Connections. This way, a user might have an account in a Passwordless Connection and then create another account in a Username-Password DB.
A Passwordless connection is a distinct connection type and you cannot set a Database to be Passwordless in this sense, as it’s the equivalent of a DB, Social Login Connection or an Enterprise Connection.
On a different note, the flow that you described could be achieved if not relying solely on pre-built Auth0 integrations. It would be possible to create a custom UI in your application that checks the authentication methods of the user and the connection_id of the Connection from which they are trying to login. Based on that logic, your can create a custom flow that prompts the user for a specific Authenticator and also implement User Account Linking - Auth0 Docs to handle cases where users have multiple accounts under the same email address. The complexity of this built quickly rises to accommodate all possible scenarios.
Allow me to share some additional resources that support the information provided, or that might prove useful on this topic:
Hope this helped, please do not hesitate to reach out to us in the future, for any other issues or requests.
Have a great one!
Gerald
Thank you for replying.
Follow up question, i am trying to create a new passwordless database connection, but i cant disbled the password authentication method,. it says “Disabling password is not yet supported”.
We will use this to create a custom flow for the login for our app,.
At this moment there are two approaches, either you setup a DataBase Connection that uses Passkey instead of a Password for authentication, or you configure a Passwordless Connection ( Email or SMS ). This last one is not a DataBase Connection and will show up independently in your tenant, under the Authentication tab.
You can find more information on the above by reading through these documentations:
Have a great one!
Gerald