How to verify users current password?

Question

So, maybe I missed this somewhere in the docs but I couldn\'t find anything of the sort.

I wan\'t my users to have to type in their current password to be able to creat

Answer 1

UPDATE: (Use - reauthenticateWithCredential)

var user = firebaseApp.auth().currentUser;
var credential = firebase.auth.EmailAuthProvider.credential(
  firebase.auth().currentUser.email,
  providedPassword
);

// Prompt the user to re-provide their sign-in credentials

user.reauthenticateWithCredential(credential).then(function() {
  // User re-authenticated.
}).catch(function(error) {
  // An error happened.
});

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PREVIOUS VERSION

you can use reauthenticate API to do so. I am assuming you want to verify a current user's password before allowing the user to update it. So in web you do something like the following:

reauthenticateAndRetrieveDataWithCredential- DEPRECATED

firebase.auth().currentUser.reauthenticateAndRetrieveDataWithCredential(
  firebase.auth.EmailAuthProvider.credential(
    firebase.auth().currentUser.email, 
    providedPassword
  )
);

If this succeeds, then you can call

firebase.auth().currentUser.updatePassword(newPassword);