Following Quickstart Guide - How to create a remote user?

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Following Quickstart Guide - How to create a remote user?

[MitchSRobinson]

Hi there,

I think I'm stuck in the same problem as you were - did you manage to find a solution?

Currently the only response I get is "Incorrect authentication credentials." so could really do with some assistance.

Thanks

[xcdr]

Hi,

I have the same problem, I get is "Incorrect authentication credentials." and don't know how to create valid django user (I created user with the same username as auth0 user_id with replaced '|' by '.').

UPDATE: I added print(f"DEBUG: username={username}") to jwt_get_username_from_payload_handler() and never seen this message, I suppose handler is not called.

[zrev2220]

Has anyone figured out a solution?

I'm confused on this step too. The Auth0 docs and the Django docs are not clear as to whether I simply create a normal Django user and mentally declare it the "remote user," or if there's some other special procedure to follow.

[speedy250]

It's not super clear anywhere, but it becomes clearer if you change the code to this:

from django.contrib.auth import authenticate

def jwt_get_username_from_payload_handler(payload):
  username = payload.get('sub').replace('|', '.')
  user = authenticate(remote_user=username)
  print('user', user, payload)
  return username

Django has actually created a User that has no password where the username comes from the auth0 normalized dataset. If you do a search in Users table on the username that is returned you'll find a blank User object! You can then modify the User however you need.

The Auth0 docs shouldn't say Then create a remote user in Django authentication system because it a remote user is already created.

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