External Auth Strategy for Admin Gives an Error of User <not found>

[fahadaleem]

Describe the bug
A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone this repo
2. Perform the mutation on authentication with Input strategy and externalIdentifier
3. Now, open http://localhost:3000/admin/
4. See error No User with the id '' could be found

Expected behavior
Admin user should be logged in with the custom auth strategy, or with the externalIdentifier that I sent it from my client site.

Environment (please complete the following information):

• @vendure/core version:
• Nodejs version
• Database (postgres):

Additional context
I am trying to implement a custom auth for admin, for testing purposes I have just taken auth strategy and external identifier as an input in authenticate mutation and then allow it to check if there is admin available with these inputs, if the user exists then return the user else create a new one as mentioned on the vendure documentation. But it is showing an error while logging.

Here is the database tables snapshots
Administrator Table

Users Table

Authentication method table

[michaelbromley]

Hi, could you include all the info you shared in the slack chat - the code for your auth strategy and then the resulting rows in your db tables?

[fahadaleem]

Hi, I have added the screenshots of the tables.

[michaelbromley]

Thanks for taking the time to create the repo. The problem is that the identifier field should match the email address:

return this.externalAuthenticationService.createAdministratorAndUser(ctx, {
  strategy: data.strategy,
  externalIdentifier: data.externalIdentifier,
-  identifier: "goldadmin",
+  identifier: "goldn@admin.com",
  emailAddress: "goldn@admin.com",
  firstName: "goldn",
  lastName: "admin",
  roles: [merchantRole],
});

Try that and let me know if it works for you.