Firebaseui-web: Required first and last name for password sign-in?

Created on 2 Sep 2016 · 7Comments · Source: firebase/firebaseui-web

Your email/password sign-in flow is prompting users for "First & last name":

screen shot 2016-09-01 at 5 29 32 pm

I don't ever want to display my users' real names on my site, and I'm afraid they'll be freaked out that they're being asked that information. Unfortunately, it's currently a required field in the email/password form.

This makes the email/password sign-in option unusable for any site that wants to maintain its users' privacy.

How can I disable this?

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courthead

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I agree with the OP. Why is this designed this way? Rarely would a site on the internet require first and last name for registration.

xorscode on 16 Dec 2016

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If you are willing to download the firebase-ui-auth.js file and serve it yourself from your server, this is a pretty easy change to make. Once you get the file, search for the text: First & last name

Once you find that text, you can change it to anything you want. I changed mine to read Display Name.

While I was in there, I also updated the Cancel button so that it was no longer a primary button.

rlansky on 15 Sep 2016

In the future we want to make this screen more customizable, but we have not seen many people request it yet, so we for now intend to work on this after milestone 1.0.

On the interim, thank you @rlansky for providing a temporary workaround!