simpleLoginTool giving me “Error: The specified authentication type is not enabled for this Firebase” when I try to register new user

Question

I am creating an AngularJS, Yeoman stack with Firebase, AngularFire application and I used generator-angularfire (https://github.com/firebase/generator-angularfire) to set up my simpleLoginTools. I only downloaded the email/password verification as the only point for authentication is that I need a few users for Admin purposes to create new and destroy old content for the site. However, when I go to my 'example.com/#/login' and try to register for a new user via email and password it gives me a

Error: The specified authentication type is not enabled for this Firebase.

Is it because I don't have an User model in my application/Firebase database? If so how do I go about creating one? If not how do I get past this error?

Answer 1

Writing the answer here because i was written down in the comments. This is happening because u have not enabled password authentication in firebase.

In order to do so you have to go the section Login and Auth and at the end you will se Enable Email and Password Authentication

Answer 2

For those who find this topic, using firebase SDK 2.x (for example wih angularfire2) but created a new app on the Google console, from this SO answer:

Firebase2 in its current version (2.4.2) is not yet compatible with Firebase SDK v3, and all projects created with the new Firebase console are only accessible with calls comaptible with SDK v3.

You want to create your Firebase backend in the legacy console www.firebase.com first, and then migrate to the new console.

This is documented in this closed issue of the angularfire2 github: https://github.com/angular/angularfire2/issues/189

Taking an app from the old console and migrating it to the new console worked for me.