Guide for using username and pass combo for user auth?

Hi I'd like to have users sign in with their username instead of their email. IIRC someone said just to use the email field and remove a regex pattern for emails from it. Is there a guide for how to do this correctly?

Also, if I still want to have an email for each user, would I still store that in their user row or should I make a secondary user table? Thanks.

garyaustin•12/4/22, 12:11 AM

Currently Supabase auth requires an email (or phone number). I've not seen any "guide" for tricking the email field with a fake email, but I've suggested it as a possibility. Definitely rules out sending any email for reset of password or OTP though.

goetic2amtxtOP•12/4/22, 12:16 AM

So would the solution be adding a unique username to the user's schema and just grabbing their email on login?

garyaustin•12/4/22, 12:17 AM

I have no idea what that means.

garyaustin•12/4/22, 12:18 AM

If you use the normal signUp with email, you can pass in an additional username with the data option and use it on the database side. But this means a real email.

garyaustin•12/4/22, 12:21 AM

To use the "fake" email idea, you just put the username in the fake email string (must be valid) then in an insert trigger function on auth.users you can read out the username and store it.

say turn•12/4/22, 1:38 PM

I don't know if this helps or not but you can disable the confirm emailconfirm email in your dashboard email provider settings. Now they won't need to verify the email, and you can pass the

username

username

as a metadata in signUp option.

goetic2amtxtOP•12/4/22, 10:19 PM

I just went with using email/password for signups and made another table for user data that contains their username. I can just piece things together server-side when authenticating. Thanks though.

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