I've got the following smart-packages installed:
standard-app-packages
autopublish
insecure
preserve-inputs
bootstrap-3
accounts-base
accounts-password
jquery
accounts-ui-bootstrap-3
iron-router
I'm trying to update the email address for a user, and since i've got the insecure and autopublish packages installed, i thought i could just do that like this:
Template.settings.events({
'click #update': function (evt, tmpl) {
evt.preventDefault();
var email = tmpl.find("#inputEmail").value;
Meteor.users.update({_id:Meteor.userId()}, {$set:{"emails":[{address:email}]}});
}
});
But i keep getting: update failed: Access denied
Mabye this comment out of the docs helps you.
Users are by default allowed to specify their own profile field with Accounts.createUser and modify it with Meteor.users.update. To allow users to edit additional fields, use Meteor.users.allow. To forbid users from making any modifications to their user document
You try to change the emails field. At first the emails field should be ( if you want to have the email public ) in profile folder. So you have to do something like
$set: {
profile: {
emails: {
}
}
}
If you change another field outside of profile you have to define allow-rules.
Related
I got an error saying
TypeError: Cannot read property 'insert' of undefined
when I run my application, and I discovered that the undefined thing mentioned before is "Meteor.users"
as it's used to insert some data to the database like so (that is the cause of the error):
var tomId = Meteor.users.insert({username: "Tom",
profile: { name: 'Tom Coleman', username:"Tom" }
});
and I don't know how to make it work normally without being undefined
any help ?
To create a new user in your application's users collection the easiest and safest way is to add accounts-base package first and then using it's API.
Add accounts-base by
meteor add accounts-base
Then what you need to do is:
import { Accounts } from 'meteor/accounts-base';
//now create your user
Accounts.createUser({
username: YOUR_USERNAME,
email: EMAIL_ADDRESS,
password: PASSWORD,
profile: {
// WHATEVER OBJECT
}
});
I'm developing a simple application using Meteor to learn the framework. I'm using the accounts-password package which incorporates the accounts-base package.
User's will create an account and their email address will serve as their username for login in. This all works perfectly fine as intended. Now I want to take this to the next level.
I want to have the ability to temporarily ban a user for a temporary set period of time - let's say a week.
Is this functionality possible using the accounts-password package or is there another package that exists which will accomplish this functionality? Otherwise how can I implement this functionality on my own?
How about using something like isBanned flag in the users collection against each user? That way, you check for this flag before logging the user in. You could further extend this by having a date field when the ban was applied and later have a way to calculate the elapsed time to see if the ban can be auto-lifted.
db.users.findOne()
{
[...]
"username" : "superadmin",
"profile" : {
"isActive" : true,
"createdBy" : "system",
// is this user banned?
"isBanned" : false,
"updatedAt" : ISODate("2016-10-07T17:33:42.773Z"),
"loginTime" : ISODate("2016-10-07T17:25:44.068Z"),
"logoutTime" : ISODate("2016-10-07T17:33:42.660Z")
},
"roles" : [
"superAdmin"
]
}
Your login form events could be like:
Template.loginForm.events({
'submit #login-form': function(event,template){
event.preventDefault();
// Check for isBanned flag
if(Meteor.users.find({username: template.find("#userName").value,isBanned: false}) {
Meteor.loginWithPassword(
template.find("#userName").value,
template.find("#password").value,
function(error) {
if (error) {
// Display the login error to the user however you want
console.log("Error logging in. Error is: " + error);
Session.set('loginErrorMessage', error.message);
Router.go('/');
}
}
);
Meteor.call('updateLoginTime');
Router.go('loggedIn');
},
}
I'm trying to publish all users to admins only but ommitting certain data (In this case an API key which is supposed to be "private" to each user, I realize that the admin can most likely check the database but let's ignore the security implications for now).
So the basic idea is that a user can see his own profile completely and no one else. An admin can see his own complete profile and a censored version of all other user's profiles. For this I have the following publish code:
Meteor.publish('currentUser', function() {
return Meteor.users.find({_id: this.userId}, {fields: {'profile.apiKey': true}});
});
Meteor.publish('allUsers', function() {
var currentUser = Meteor.users.findOne(this.userId);
return currentUser && currentUser.profile.admin ?
Meteor.users.find({}, {sort: ['username', 'asc'], fields: {'profile.apiKey': false}}) : null;
});
The problem is that the apiKey field doesn't get published after logging in. Ie. if I simply login as an admin the admin's apiKey won't be available until the page is reloaded. Removing the restriction from the 'allUsers' publish function solves the issue so it must have something to do with this. Is there any way to force Meteor to reload the subscriptions after a login?
I'm using accounts-password package - Meteor.
I code interface for admin.
Admin will create accounts for other user.
Accounts.createUser({
email: "abc#gmail.com",
password : "abc123",
profile: { name: register_name }
});
But after this code executed, my application automatic login with account abc#gmail.com, wich i don't want it
Question
How to create accounts without automatic login?
I read accounts-password source but i dont know how to remove automatic login
I also tried to use Meteor.users.insert function but Accounts.setPassword didn't work..
This is a normal behavior using accounts package, to avoid messing with the source code use a Meteor.method/Meteor.call.
This is a simple example,also you can use the default username filed and not a profile:{name:register_name}.
if(Meteor.isServer){
Meteor.methods({
createUserFromAdmin:function(emai,password,username){
Accounts.createUser({email:email,password:password,username:username})
}
})
}else if(Meteor.isClient){
Template.admin.events({
'click #createAccount':function(){
Meteor.call('createUserFromAdmin',email,password,username,function(err,result){
if(!err){
console.log("a new user just got created")
}else{
console.log("something goes wrong with the following error message " +err.reason )
}
})
}
})
}
With this you can create multiple accounts on the admin template, and keep the autologin behavior on the sign-up template (if you have one)
The only way I have found to delete user accounts in meteor (other than emptying the database with mrt reset), is by actually logging into that specific user account, and deleting the account from the console, using:
Meteor.users.remove('the user id');
But like I said, I need to be logged in as that specific user, and have not been able to find a solution which enables me to delete any user from the db. I'm sure it has something to do with permissions or roles, but I am not sure how to proceed / what is the best solution / how to set an administrative role for a particular user, so that I can delete different user accounts.
You could do
meteor mongo
or
meteor mongo myapp.meteor.com for a deployed app
Then
db.users.remove({_id:<user id>});
I wouldn't recommend it but if you want to delete any user without being logged in from meteor you would need to modify the allow rules. But deleting a user is a very unlikely event hence the above might be the best way to do it.
Anyway if you do want, modify the Meteor.users.allow({remove:function() { return true }); property. See http://docs.meteor.com/#allow. You could add in some custom logic there so it'll only let you do so if you're the admin
I was having trouble doing this on nitrous.io because I couldn't open both Meteor and Mongo. I put:
Meteor.users.remove(' the _id of the user ');
in the isServer section to remove the user.
If anyone is still looking for an answer to this question, I have outlined my solution below.
When I create a new user, I add a field called role in my user document. If I want a user to be able to remove other users from the Meteor.users collection, I give him a role of administrator. If not, I give him a role of member. So, my user document looks something like this -
{
"_id" : ...,
"createdAt" : ...,
"services" : {...},
"username" : "test",
"profile" : {
"name" : "Test Name",
"role" : "administrator"
}
}
On the client, I have a list of users (added using a #each template tag) with a remove button next to each user. A user has to login to see this list. I defined an event handler for the remove button -
'click #remove-user-btn': function () {
Meteor.users.remove({ _id: this._id }, function (error, result) {
if (error) {
console.log("Error removing user: ", error);
} else {
console.log("Number of users removed: " + result);
}
})
}
However, Meteor.users does not allow remove operations from the client by default. So, you have to edit the Meteor.users.allow callback in the server as shown below to allow the users to be removed from the client side. But we need to make sure that only a user with an administrator role is allowed this privilege.
Meteor.users.allow({
remove: function (userId, doc) {
var currentUser, userRole;
currentUser = Meteor.users.findOne({ _id: userId }, { fields: { 'profile.role': 1 } });
userRole = currentUser.profile && currentUser.profile.role;
if (userRole === "administrator" && userId !== doc._id) {
console.log("Access granted. You are an administrator and you are not trying to delete your own document.");
return true;
} else {
console.log("Access denied. You are not an administrator or you are trying to delete your own document.");
return false;
}
},
fetch: []
});
This is the general idea. You can build upon this to suit your needs.
Here are the steps to delete user from mongo through console:
step 1: open new console
step 2: change diretory to your app such as (cd myapp)
step 3 : enter command meteor mongo
step 4: make sure there exists a table called users, db.users.find({});
step 5: find the userid of the user you wish to delete and type :
db.users.remove({_id:"nRXJCC9wTx5x6wSP2"}); // id should be within quotes