Pre-create a user to be used by session sharing

[budisetiawan]

In the session sharing admin screen, there is option "Don't automatically create NodeBB accounts for unrecognized users", which has this as description "By default, an unrecognized user id found in a payload cookie will have a local NodeBB account automatically created for it. If enabled, that cookie will not resolve into a session and that client will remain a guest."
I assumed there is a case where there is a recognizable user id that can be used by session sharing to associate to existing nodebb account. Is there a way to create (via write API?) nodeBB account that can be used by session sharing?

As far as I know, session sharing uses "unique id" (passed in to JWT token as "id") to find existing user created via session sharing

My question is, what's the right way to pre-create nodeBB account to be used by session sharing?

I've tried using write API, but session-sharing create a new account instead of using the one created by write API
I've tried to open connection to https://forum.myaccount.com (using java's urlConnection) and send cookie, but it doesn't work - I think I need to go to specific URL for this to work

Can you please help me?

thanks

[julian]

@budisetiawan Hm, that is a good question.

I added that option because someone wanted the ability to stop new registrations from being made after a certain point, so I assume they just enabled that option after they were finished adding users.

How are you creating the user via Write API? If they have the same email as a session-sharing user, the plugin will automatically associate that user with the pre-created account.

You can either use Write API to create the account, or do so manually in the ACP.

[budisetiawan]

@julian
I should have tried associating by email address
I tried it just now and it works

thanks and great job on NodeBB