Retrieve user roles and permission on profile with nextjs

[tyf]

hey @barekliton welcome to the community!

You’ll need to explicitly add the roles to ID Tokens using an Action as outlined in the following FAQ:

How to add Roles and Permissions to the ID Token using Actions?

Problem statement Is it possible to retrieve the user’s Roles and/or Permissions and include them in the JWT Token? Solution Yes, it’s possible to retrieve the user’s Roles and/or Permissions and append them to either the ID Token or Access Token. To do so, you must use a Post-Login Action script. 1.1 Roles When adding the user’s Roles to the token, call the event.authorization.roles property and add it as a custom claim to the Token. Please see here on creating namespaced custom claims. Be…

Permissions are a bit different, and are typically kept within the context of an access token. I recommend taking a look at RBAC as this provides you with the option (assuming you have an API registered in Auth0) to automatically add permissions to user’s access tokens.

Hope this helps!