Connect service to existing meteor account
account, javascript, meteor, oauth
Solution
So there's been work to solve this problem, but unfortunately the pull request https://github.com/meteor/meteor/pull/1133 never got merged. Probably your best bet is check the meteor-core Google Groups and see if there was any comment on it and if not, see if you can get a core dev to comment on it.
If you want to still use the pull request, what you could do is remove the various Meteor `accounts-*` packages, then in the root of your project, create a `/packages` folder and copy yubozhao's patched `accounts-*` packages in there (probably smart to append `-custom`). You'd then `meteor add accounts-base-custom`, etc. to add them to your project.
Note though, yubozhao wrote this is 6-7 months ago and you may need to stick with whatever version of Meteor that was current then for it to work.
Update April 2014: There's an Atmosphere package now that has a similar use case that might be useful: https://atmospherejs.com/package/accounts-merge
Problem
I am setting up a meteor app that involves signing up with a username and password, then hopefully connecting that account with facebook and twitter. I have the first part up and running easily, just with the accounts package. But when I have a logged in user call Meteor.loginWithFacebook(), it logs them out and creates a new account. What I want is something that adds the facebook credentials to the currently logged in user. The meteor docs have this: ``` { _id: "bbca5d6a-2156-41c4-89da-0329e8c99a4f", // Meteor.userId() username: "cool_kid_13", // unique name emails: [ // each email address can only belong to one user. { address: "cool@example.com", verified: true }, { address: "another@different.com", verified: false } ], createdAt: Wed Aug 21 2013 15:16:52 GMT-0700 (PDT), profile: { // The profile is writable by the user by default. name: "Joe Schmoe" }, services: { facebook: { id: "709050", // facebook id accessToken: "AAACCgdX7G2...AbV9AZDZD" }, resume: { loginTokens: [ { token: "97e8c205-c7e4-47c9-9bea-8e2ccc0694cd", when: 1349761684048 } ] } } } ``` which appears to be an account with a username that's also authenticated with Facebook. But I'm not sure if that's just an example that you can't actually achieve with basic Meteor stuff. What I am trying to make is basically ``` Meteor.connectWithExternalAccount(); ``` which runs the same process as Meteor.loginWithExternalAccount(), but just adds the information to the currently logged in user. If someone could just explain the accounts-base package a bit so I could know where to start for myself that would be great. Also, does anyone know if this will be included in any future versions of Meteor?