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Setting Firebase custom claims

Setting Firebase custom claims

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Setting Firebase custom claims

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- [Instructor] Our application will have one admin user. So let's create that manually through the Firebase console. I recommend that you create an email account for your particular admin user. My admin user will be thegrid.manager@gmail.com, and let's set a password here. Great, now that user is created. It is currently not possible to add custom claims from the Firebase console. So generally there are a few ways to do it. One way is to add custom claims when a specific user is created, we can use Firebase Cloud functions to add a trigger to watch for such users. Another way to do it is to do it through the command line, which is perfectly fine as well. We will be using the Firebase Admin SDK, which will let us interact with Firebase from privileged environments to perform actions like adding custom claims and read and write to our database with full admin privileges. You can perform similar actions as if you're in…

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