I don't think the API is what I need, I want to manually set the account uid and as I read the docs, I can't pass that to the api, so I will try coding own plugin.

Hello, I have a client who wishes to have a forum software, but he already has another service that handles accounts for his other apps. What he wishes is when someone registers through his service, that a forum account will be automatically created, with the database ID, same as the ID provided by his service, not auto incrementing.

Is it possible to achieve something like this with nodeBB?

I think I've found a way, probably I could create a custom plugin and use the user.create hook, to create a custom user.

I managed to solve it, reinstalled from scratch.

Updated nodebb and I had an error with 'cwd' so I downgraded from node 9.. to 7.10.0 and now it just says that it tried 10 times and halted...

Amazon EC2 linux

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-41-60 nodebb]$ ./nodebb upgrade                                                                     npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: ReDoS vulnerability parsing Set-Cookie https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/130  npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use uuid module instead                                                            npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: connect 2.x series is deprecated                                                     npm ERR! Linux 4.9.81-35.56.amzn1.x86_64                                                                                npm ERR! argv "/home/ec2-user/.nvm/versions/node/v7.10.0/bin/node" "/home/ec2-user/.nvm/versions/node/v7.10.0/bin/npm" "install"                                                                                                                npm ERR! node v7.10.0                                                                                                   npm ERR! npm  v4.2.0                                                                                                    npm ERR! code ETARGET                                                                                                                                                                                                                           npm ERR! notarget No compatible version found: [email protected]                                                                  npm ERR! notarget Valid install targets:                                                                                npm ERR! notarget 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.3, 0.3.4, 0.3.5, 0.3.6                                                       npm ERR! notarget                                                                                                       npm ERR! notarget This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.                                                    npm ERR! notarget In most cases you or one of your dependencies are requesting                                          npm ERR! notarget a package version that doesn't exist.                                                                                                                                                                                         npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:                                                    npm ERR!     /home/ec2-user/.npm/_logs/2018-03-28T22_45_19_646Z-debug.log                                               [email protected] /home/ec2-user/forum/nodebb/nodebb                                                                         ├── [email protected]                                                                                        └── UNMET PEER DEPENDENCY [email protected] invalid                                                                                                                                                                                npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of nodebb-theme-vanilla@~0.0.18 but none was installed.           npm WARN [email protected] license should be a valid SPDX license expression                                                 /home/ec2-user/forum/nodebb/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:104                                                                              invalidUnicodeChars: XRegExp('[^\\p{L}\\s\\d\\-_]', 'g'),                                                                                    ^                                                                                                                                                                                                          TypeError: XRegExp is not a function                                                                                        at __dirname.undefined.module.module.exports (/home/ec2-user/forum/nodebb/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:104:24)            at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ec2-user/forum/nodebb/nodebb/public/src/utils.js:282:3)                                    at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)                                                                                   at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)                                                                     at Module.load (module.js:488:32)                                                                                       at tryModuleLoad (module.js:447:12)                                                                                     at Function.Module._load (module.js:439:3)                                                                              at Module.require (module.js:498:17)                                                                                    at require (internal/module.js:20:19)                                                                                   at Object.<anonymous> (/home/ec2-user/forum/nodebb/nodebb/app.js:32:10)   

Thats what I get on upgrade