Access to user data
I see that we cannot access the passwords of the users of our platform, why? Even if they are hashed, couldn't you give the option? Since it is our platform and our users. Also, I see that there is no option to change the password of a user to another if we want or send mail to change it, etc, as it has other platforms like Supabase. Could you add that?
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Hey so i've mainly used auth with email and socials (passworless) but when you go to the details of a user you have an option to reset the password of a user or set a temp one. And i'd assume it's present for any type of login (passworless / w password)
As for why you can't access the passwords of your users i'll ask the team to clarify this but I personaly don't see a benefit in it
Well, I would like to have control over the user credentials, after all I use Kinde as a substitute to having to do the auth from scratch and doing the auth from scratch I could see them
Alright. I've asked the team for more clarification on that point.
But have you seen the two buttons I showed in the screenshot ?
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Hi @disamdev here's the response from our security dev about access to user passwords.
Customers are able to export their user's hashed passwords via the export feature, but not view them directly via the UI or API. I don't think this position will change due to our responsibility for securely storing passwords. To be honest, I haven't heard of any other auth providers supporting this idea because a core part of our service is that customers offload the risk of password storage to Kinde. But if you know of any specific examples, send them my way since I'm curious how they handle this scenario.Here's a link to the export user doc. https://docs.kinde.com/manage-your-account/your-data/exporting-data/?r=search#_top Note that there are also security measures in place to ensure that not just 'anyone' can export data from your business. Let us know if you have any further questions.
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