Kinde•6mo ago

Create a user with username and password authentication using the API

Hello I'm trying to create a user using the following documentation: https://kinde.com/api/docs/#create-user The only options I have there is to create a user with email, phone or username. What do I need to do to be able to create a user with username and password? My goal is to have a form in my FE, make valiadions in my BE and have my BE make a request to create a user in Kinde after the validations passed. Once your endpoint sends a response I will store the ID in my user table with the other information that is relevant to me. The user in Kinde will be like a principal. Can you help me?

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onderay•6mo ago

Thanks for checking out Kinde. Sound like you would like to make use of our custom sign in and sign up pages - https://docs.kinde.com/authenticate/custom-configurations/custom-authentication-pages/#_top With our current functionality if you want a user to set their own password, you will still need to send them to a Kinde hosted page to for that part of the sign up process. But if you want to create a user with a username and a password in Kinde, you'll need to follow a two-step process. First, create the user with a username, and then set a password separately. And then you will need to communicate this password to the user. Create User with Username To create a user with a username, you can use the Create User API endpoint. Here's how you can structure your request:

{
  "profile": {
    "given_name": "string",
    "family_name": "string"
  },
  "identities": [
    {
      "type": "email",
      "details": {
        "email": "string",
        "phone": "string",
        "username": "string"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "profile": {
    "given_name": "string",
    "family_name": "string"
  },
  "identities": [
    {
      "type": "email",
      "details": {
        "email": "string",
        "phone": "string",
        "username": "string"
      }
    }
  ]
}

In this request, you'll need to provide the username in the identities array. Password Authentication https://kinde.com/api/docs/#set-user-password For your use case, you might consider using a temporary password generator.

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_danicas_OP•6mo ago

Hello André! Thank you for the quick response it was very helpful, Am I correct to assume you meant to show "type": "username" in the request body example?

Daniel_Kinde•6mo ago

Hi @danicas , Yes you're correct.

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