Assigning Default Roles to a User on Sign up Using Auth0 Actions

Improve your user management with seamless role assignment!
In this video, Okta developer advocate @carlaustabile walks through how to add default roles to users on sign-up with Auth0 actions.

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*Relevant links:*
🔵 node-auth0 GitHub repo:
🔵 Management API Reference:

*Chapter markers:*
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Roles vs Permissions
01:19 Creating a new role
02:46 Using a management API
03:49 Brief overview of Auth0 Actions
04:35 Flows and Triggers documentation
06:42 Creating our custom action
22:54 Adding our action to the flow
25:24 Recap and conclusions

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[CodeNClouds]

Thanks for sharing how to assign a default role with actions for a machine-to-machine application, can you please share the same for a Single Page Application client? Thanks.

[MatthiasHarter]

Note that the role assigned in the custom action applies to the issued token. This is a very important detail. Otherwise you would need to logout and login again. To have the new permissions of that role in the permissions claim.

[Caleb-vzl]

In your docs it is recommended not to call the management api from within actions, is there an updated guide for default user roles?

[fawzytat]

Can you explain how to do the same for login from a react native app? which client ID, secret and domain I should use in this case?

[alexfrancis]

Hey, how can I send the role of a user from the frontend? I don't want to assign a default user role, rather I want to set it based on if the user decides to sign up as role A or role B

[AlexCage]

Considering that hardcoding role ID in action is not what people usually do it would require to pull and filter role by name as well. Also creating separate application for Auth0 actions. Taking into account that everything should be put into some king of scripts to be run by CLI as doing everything by hand from UI is just for demo purposes
it seems like too much effort for something that should have come out out of the box

[PriyankaSharma-ccou]

Hi,

I need help! How can I integrate Auth0 authentication into the login process and add new fields like "firstname" and "lastname"? I also want to retrieve these names and pass them to the backend using a webhook.

Can anyone help me out?

[fawzytat]

Thank you! That worked. btw the code in the video is correct, the one at the blog isn't.
the one at the blog should be
if (
event.authorization &&
event.authorization.roles &&
> 0
) {
return;
}

[kynjal]

how do i assign a username automatically on sign up

[flavbmusic]

lmao 25 minutes to get roles from a user wth
this is not satisfying Otkta!
(the video is good btw)

[anurajnarayanan]

I am getting Unauthorized when I run the test in the Actions after replacing the user id. Did I miss anything @carlaustabile @OktaDev ?