Firebase/Swift 2 - How to get an authenticated users password and email

Question

I'm trying to setup a password reset within an app using swift 2 and Firebase.

Following Firebases example:

let ref = Firebase(url: "https://<YOUR-FIREBASE-APP>.firebaseio.com") ref.changePasswordForUser("[email protected]", fromOld: "correcthorsebatterystaple", toNew: "batteryhorsestaplecorrect", withCompletionBlock: { error in if error != nil { // There was an error processing the request } else { // Password changed successfully } })

How can I access an authenticated users email & password in order to pass those values to this function instead of the current mock data?

I'm not interested in sending a temporary password in a pass reset email.

I was thinking that I'd be able to access these values by something like:

let ref = Firebase(url: firebaseURL) ref.authData.providerData.someValueHere

But I haven't been able to figure it out.

How can I access these values from the currently authenticated user?

Frank van Puffelen · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-18 03:28:44Z

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How can I access an authenticated users email & password

Firebase does not store the user's password. Instead it stores a hash of the user's password. That means that there is no API from Firebase that returns a user's password.

answered Mar 18, 2016 at 3:28

Frank van Puffelen

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Christian Over a year ago

So how do I make use of changePasswordForUser? Which seems to take an email, old password and new password as parameters?

Frank van Puffelen Over a year ago

changePasswordForUser() is for the user to change their password in your app. If the user has forgotten their password, you need to use resetPasswordForUser(), which sends a password reset email. There currently is no API to change/reset the password without either knowing the current password or sending an email.

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