resetPassword: Permission denied for this action.

[andresgarza]

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• You're running the latest version of Parse Server.
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Environment Setup

parse-server v2.2.2

Steps to reproduce

• Setup email adapter according to README instructions
• Request password reset email
• Click on link to go to choose_password page
• Attempt to submit password

Logs/Trace

No logs/errors on server by default, but by running the server locally, I was able to determine the userController.updatePassword in the PublicAPIRouter catches the Permission denied for this action. error and redirects back to the choose password page.

[flovilmart]

@carmenlau ?

[seryoni]

I was able to the reset password use case to work with SimpleMailgunAdapter. I did have to debug some of the internals though.

Setting the following arguments that must be passed to the ParseServer ctor solved all the permission denied stuff.

publicServerURL: process.env.PUBLIC_SERVER_URL || 'http://localhost:1337/parse'

appName: process.env.APP_NAME || '<your app name?'

emailAdapter: simpleMailgunAdapter

I set publicServerURL to be the same as serverURL. Didn't really understand the need for both but if you don't set the publicServerURL it all doesn't work.

[seryoni]

flovilmart already answered my question below on a different thread. Looks like the documentation on the main project thread got updated with more details.

[andresgarza]

@seryoni / @flovilmart I'm actually passing all those options, but I figured out what the actual problem was: it seems like the latest package in NPM was released before bunch of commits needed for the password reset to correctly work.

@flovilmart / @gfosco since the README already mentions how to setup email for password resets, could we release a new version of the npm package?