frida-in-the-middle

Authentication middleware for use with Node and Express

This is a demo implementation not designed for any kind of production use

Features

• Registration and authentication against ForgeRock IDM 5.5 API
• Relies on presence of persistent server-side req.session, e.g. delivered by express-session
• Utilizes express.urlencoded middleware

Installation

$ npm install frida-in-the-middle

Options

• [loginFreeRoutes] URL(s) not requiring login
• [loginRoutes] login form(s)
• [registrationRoutes] registration form(s)
• [logoutRoutes] logging out URL(s)
• [loginRedirectRoute] URL to redirect to after logging in
• {api} API instance particularities:
  • host hostname
  • port port
  • protocol 'http' is the only supported one at the moment
  • username the anonymous user
  • password the user's password

Example

const session = require('express-session')

app.use(session({
  secret: 'there-is-no-privacy-get-over-it',
  resave: false,
  saveUninitialized: false,
  cookie: {
    maxAge: 1000 * 60 * 4
  },
  name: 'forgerock'
}))

// frida-in-the-middle: start
app.use(express.urlencoded({
  extended: true
}))

const frida = require('frida-in-the-middle')

app.use(frida({
  loginFreeRoutes: [
      '/session/login',
      '/session/logout',
      '/session/registration'
  ],
  loginRoutes: ['/session/login'],
  registrationRoutes: ['/session/registration'],
  logoutRoutes: ['/session/logout'],
  loginRedirectRoute: '/profile',
  api: {
    host: 'idm55-api-host',
    port: '8080',
    protocol: 'http',
    username: 'anonymous',
    password: 'anonymous'
  }
}))
// frida-in-the-middle: end

Client

The registration route will respond with requirements object attached to frida namespace in the session, i.e. req.session.frida.requirements

Successful registration or/and login will attach user, profile, and sessionJwt objects, the latter being authentication cookie returned from the API, i.e.: req.session.frida.user, req.session.frida.profile, req.session.frida.sessionJwt

In certain cases message string will be attached to the session, i.e. req.session.frida.message

The above can be used in building client interface, optionally employing templating engine

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2018 lapinek

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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