Hello! I am using Okta in my VueJS + Java Spring Boot app and have stumbled upon a possible bug. I am able to create an user with password, using the option .setActive(false), so that the user goes to the “Staged” state, for later activation. After that, I send my own activation email with a link…

phi1ipp, sorry for wasting your time. The problem was on my side. Sometimes the password was not properly set. Everything is working as it is supposed to.

Not sure I fully understood… When a user clicks the custom link, what do you do on the backend to activate?

I want to change the user status from STAGED to ACTIVE. It works when the user access the custom link from a private window in chrome/firefox (maybe something to do with cookies?). If the user access my custom link from a browser which he has already logged in to the okta application, the state …

When you say “custom link” what exactly do you mean? Is it a custom domain name for the okta tenant? Or is it the URL for your server which performs activation? In the latter case, can you capture an api call to Okta with tcpdump or similar stuff.

Did you check, what happens if you are not sending an activation email? https://developer.okta.com/docs/reference/api/users/#activate-user

Yes, I am not sending the activation email. The password is set before the user is activated, so it should be possible to login with the password when activated, as described in the link you provided (see image attached). The whole process works fine when the user uses a private window or has n…

Oh OK, I was just referring you to the doc for the status of a user, after you activate them. Let me ask you other thing then. Is user able to log into Okta after you activate them directly, rather than to your app?

If the user is in a private window, resulting in a ACTIVE state, he is able to login with his password. If the user is in a browser which has previously logged in, resulting in a PENDING USER ACTION state, I am able to reset his password and activate manually, and then he has to change the password…

Possible bug when activating user via Java SDK

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dev.bobton August 25, 2020, 1:58am 5

It is a route in my Spring Boot controller that calls the Okta Client
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Possible bug when activating user via Java SDK

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