Why is an email address required for bulk import into Auth0?

[tyf]

Hey there @moririn welcome to the community!

An email is indeed required - This requirement is in place because the email address serves as a unique identifier within Auth0. The primary reason for this is that the email address is a globally unique identifier that can be easily used to contact the user (e.g., for password resets, multi-factor authentication, or other communications).

Importing user profiles that do not have an email attribute

Problem statement A lot of users of our app do not use email to log in and use a username instead. We want to import these users in Auth0 using a custom database with lazy migration, but Auth0 does not allow importing users with missing email IDs. The solution we are thinking of is to assign them fake email IDs. Is there any accepted pattern Auth0 suggests to assign such fake email IDs which are not routable? Solution An email field is required when importing users either through a Custom DB o…