I want to change user password form admin. Users are login with firebase email and password option. Admin is also login with firebase. How can change the user password with web api?
There is no way to change another user's password with the client SDK.
Firebase Authentication doesn't have any concept of an admin user. That means that it can't grant special privileges to a user that you consider an admin.
There is however an Admin SDK, that runs with administrative privileges, and has the option to change the password (and other profile data) of any user in the project. This SDK is meant to be used on a so-called trusted environment, such as your development machine, a server you control, or Cloud Functions.
You could wrap the Admin SDK in an API endpoint that you can call from your web client code. Just be sure to check in the custom function whether the user is authorized to change the password.
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I am making an admin tool page to allow admins to change users email for when they change or set their account to deactivate so they can not access the site anymore. Everything I have looked at seems to be using 'CurrentUser' but this will not work due to the fact they will be logged in as themselves which is marked as Admin level so they have access to the tool. So is there any way to change a users email for authentication without logging in as them?
If the Firebase Authentication client-side SDKs had an API that allowed you to change the email address of anyone but yourself that'd be a major security risk.
This is the reason an API to update any user by their UID only exists in the Admin SDK, which can only be run on a trusted environment as it requires full administrative access to your project.
If you want to expose this functionality to specific users of your app, you'll have to wrap the relevant call of the Admin SDK into a custom endpoint that you then call from the app. Just make sure to check that the user is authorized, before changing some other user's account.
I am currently developing an angular+ionic app. Everything is working ok but I got a question with the forgot password workflow: sendPasswordRestEmail -> user clicks link -> user fill form -> user submit form -> password and oobCode send with the firebase auth api, which I am accessing through angular fire package.
As I said everything is working as intended. The only "issue" I see is that firebase not only sends password reset email to user that created their account with an email/password but also users that are using an external provider like Google ( sign in with google). I havent test login with Facebook at this point but it is happening with google provider. I just want to make sure if this is the intended workflow or something may be wrong... a bug or something? before I post an issue on github, because even though the user can "change its password" when using an external provider, it is having no effect on their external account(gmail account) which of course should have no effect.
Sending a password reset email from Firebase allows the user to reset the password on their Firebase Authentication account. It has nothing to do with the password they may have with any social provider associated with that account.
I have an app that lets users sign in via email and password. The app has a feed with posts that need to be moderated. I have an admin react website that lets the moderators remove or keep posts. Right now any user can login and see the content, however I wanna make the login only available for admin users. I made my account "admin" using Admin SDK of Firebase.
I was thinking to make a Cloud Function which verifies whether the email is an admin and return true or false accordingly. Then authenticate the user normally using Firebase Auth. Is this secure enough?
If you've set a custom claim marking the user as an application administrator, you can check in your client-side code for the presence of that claim. You can then use the result of that to show the correct UI.
On the server/in the database security rules, you'll also want to check the presence of this admin claim before allow the user to access/modify the moderator data.
Note that none of these prevents the users from authenticating. Authentication in Firebase is nothing more than entering your credentials to prove that you are you. Granting access to resources based on who you are, known as authorization, is up to the application, hence including it in your client-side code, and server-side code or security rules.
I would like to login to Firebase from an ERP system.
i.e. once logged into the ERP system, that login can be used to access a Firestore db.
The Firebase docs describe a common case: "Add an additional identifier on a user".
Is it possible to use this common case to login to Firebase from the ERP system?
Control Access with Custom Claims and Security Rules
User roles can be defined for the following common cases:
Add an additional identifier on a user. For example, a Firebase user could map to a different UID in another system.
If you want to use the users from an existing authentication system to authenticate against Firebase, you'll need to implement a custom authentication provider.
With such a provider, you:
Sign the user in with your existing system in a trusted environment (e.g. on a server).
You then use the user's credentials to mint a custom JWT token.
Send that token back the client, which then finally
Uses the custom token to sign in to Firebase.
At this point, the user is signed in to Firebase Authentication in the client, and their UID (and other properties from their token) are available in the Firestore security rules.
On my application users are provisioned and delete by the admin. The documentation states that auth.removeUser requires an ID and password. Of course the admin user doesn't know its users passwords. Is there a way for the admin user to get permission to delete users?
Note that Firebase Simple Login is a separate service built on top of Firebase Authentication, intended to simplify authenticating users and generating Firebase Auth. Tokens for use in Security Rules.
All that said, if you log in to Firebase Forge (at https://<your-firebase>.firebaseio.com) and select the Auth tab, you can add or remove email / password users under the Email & Password button.