prevent user from automatically signing in after registration with firebase

Question

i'm using firebase 3.0.5

I want members to have the ability to register other members through their account. Is there a way to prevent firebase from auto-signing new registrants in using createUserWithEmailAndPassword?

https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth/web/password-auth#create_a_password-based_account

I'm sure I can find another way to do this, but not auto-signing them in would make things much much simpler for me.

EDIT: when a new member is signed up via an existing member, a random password is created and emailed to the new member. the existing member never knows the new members password.

Answer 1

Use createUser instead of createUserWithEmailAndPassword

As documented here: https://www.firebase.com/docs/web/api/firebase/createuser.html

Creates a new email / password user with the provided credentials. This method does not authenticate the user. After the account is created, the user may be authenticated with authWithPassword().

var ref = new Firebase("https://<YOUR-FIREBASE-APP>.firebaseio.com");
ref.createUser({
  email: "bobtony@firebase.com",
  password: "correcthorsebatterystaple"
}, function(error, userData) {
  if (error) {
    switch (error.code) {
      case "EMAIL_TAKEN":
        console.log("The new user account cannot be created because the email is already in use.");
        break;
      case "INVALID_EMAIL":
        console.log("The specified email is not a valid email.");
        break;
      default:
        console.log("Error creating user:", error);
    }
  } else {
    console.log("Successfully created user account with uid:", userData.uid);
  }
});