Create OAUTH accounts prior to signin - meteor

Question

I have an app I am working on that has one or two "main" accounts linked to other accounts. I am using accounts-password, accounts-google, and alanning:roles currently, but I may add other OAuth providers later.
The idea is that there will be one or two users that are "admins" for a larger group, and as such I'd like to be able to allow them to add users. I don't mind if I have to go through the OAuth authorization page on first login, but I would like to be able to add the users to the Meteor.users collection and allow the admins to set things up prior to their logging in, but I am not sure how to do it at all. Can I simply add a user to the Meteor.users collection with only the email attribute of the google sub-document populated? I would guess that the email is NOT what Meteor uses to connect a stored Meteor.users document to the corresponding Google OAuth account as there is also an id attribute that seems like it might be more useful for that purpose.

Answer 1

So based on what you say on the comment i elaborate this DEMO, since you want to create users and add that users to some kind of "role" or "group" im using here the meteor-roles package.
allow people to create a group of users
This could be done on some differentes ways, for the demo purpose im creating 1x1 user and leater assign them a Role.
to avoid the autologin behavior you should use a Meteor.method.
//server
Meteor.methods({
createSimpleUser:function(email){
return Accounts.createUser({
email:email,
password:"test123" //you can force the user in the first login to change the password.
})
}
})
//Client
Meteor.call('createUser',"test#gmail.com")
Now that you have the user created, you should assign them a role.
So on some event handler you want,do something like this.
//this should be incide an {{#each}} or {{#with}} in order to this._id works, if not use Sessions
Meteor.users.update({_id:this._id},{$set:{group:newGroup}})
This is just the global idea, you should protect in the allow rules, who can edit the users group, you can also use template helpers like
{{if userIsInRole 'nameGroup'}}
<!-- Show content only available to users in this group -->
{{else}}
<!-- Some warning access denied template -->
{{/if}}
This process will add some stuff to the profile of the user so the app
can associate all the users together
Filter by groups.
Template.example.helpers({
groupX:function(){
return Meteor.users.find({group:"X"})
}
})
when they first login without erasing the stuff I setup for them prior
to them signing in.
Here again there could be many reasons, for example you can add some field inside the current user created.
Meteor.methods({
createSimpleUser:function(email){
return Accounts.createUser({
email:email,
password:"test123",
firstLogin:false //by default the users login is false.
})
}
})
and in the iron route, create a function(why on the router? see Overworked helpers on the David Weldon webpage).
requireEdit = function(){
var query = Meteor.users.findOne({_id:this.params._id})
if(query.firstLogin == false){
this.render('profileEditin') //do some change password here and other stuff
}else{
this.next()'
}
}
And call it on the onBeforeAction() method
This is just the idea and demo is a ugly-fast example of how it should work, good luck