Import users with cli auth:import

[bpingris]

[REQUIRED] Environment info

firebase-tools:
10.1.2

Platform:
macOS

[REQUIRED] Test case

I want to import some users from an external service to firebase.

[REQUIRED] Steps to reproduce

I created a users.json file with the following content:

{
    "users":  [
        {
            "localId": "6163ee1c5235bc04593462fe",
            "email": "jon.foo@example.com",
            "passwordHash": "12c95403688627611328f4e293f76520939563f87ee3d8c2e97e5f0fac4690ba",
            "salt": "M2U4MjRhNWEtMGFlMS00YjZmLThmMjUtNTU0NDMyZTc5NTRm"
        }
    ]
}

and ran this command:

firebase auth:import users.json \
--hash-algo=SHA256 \
--rounds=1 \
--hash-input-order=SALT_FIRST \
--project my-project-id

[REQUIRED] Expected behavior

The users defined in my users.json should be uploaded to firebase, or if any error happened I should have it displayed on my terminal.

[REQUIRED] Actual behavior

The import failed and I have no information except the following:

Processing users.json (310 bytes)
Starting importing 1 account(s).
Encountered problems while importing accounts. Details:

If I ran with --debug flag , I can see the error but it seems wrong:

[{"account":"{}","reason":"localId is missing"}]

but, as you can see in my users.json, the localId property is set.

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[bobatsar]

I have exactly the same issue. It is not possible to import auth data with passwords at the moment. But in my case I am just trying to import data from a backup which was exported with firebase auth:export auth.json --format json

In my case it is firebase 10.1.5 on Ubuntu 21.10

[nappernick]

Same issue. firebase-tools 9.18.0 and firebase 8.10.0, platform is MacOS Big Sur.

[antoine10245]

Im experiencing it too! using firebase 10.1.5, on macOS Monterey(12.1)
when running firebase --debug auth:import usersToImport.json --hash-algo="MD5" --rounds=1

here is an example of what Im trying to import

{
    "users": [
        {
            "localId": "7022f2de-1b41-4a75-aa9e-575b9ae8a056",
            "email": "user1@mail.com",
            "passwordHash": "NWI3ZWU1NGJiMDFlY2I2OGM4NDZlOGJhNTk5YjdkNGM=",
            "createdAt": 1644495378041
        }
    ]
}

[bpingris]

To resolve this in the meantime, I used the Go admin SDK to import my users (btw all SDK seem not to be developed with the same feature: the Node one does not have an option to specify the order of the salt).
I had to face some issues though, you can find more information on my SO post

[isaactan001]

Use the CSV format instead of JSON works for me

Export
firebase auth:export users.csv --format=csv --project=myproject1

Import
firebase auth:import users.csv --project=myproject2 --hash-algo=scrypt --hash-key=myhashkey --rounds=8 --mem-cost=14 --debug

[yuchenshi]

Duplicate of #4157