Meteor User Property

Question

I\'d like to be able to mark users as \"admin\" in the Meteor auth system, and allow that user to do special things, as well as show some gui elements I wouldn\'t show if they w

Answer 1

To anyone in the future, simply assign the value in the users table in the database. You can publish additional fields to the user using the following:

Meteor.publish("userData", function () {
     return Meteor.users.find({_id: this.userId}, {fields: {'admin': 1}});
});

And on the client:

Meteor.subscribe("userData");

Poof. Straight from the documentation.

Answer 2

You can also add properties in "profile" attribute of the user. profile attribute is alrealy populated to client side :

Meteor.users.update({_id: userId}, {$set: {'profile.admin': 1}});

//on client side
Meteor.user().profile.admin