passport-token

Username and token authentication strategy for Passport - modified from passport-local.

Installation

$ npm install passport-token

Usage

The token authentication strategy authenticates users using a username and token. The strategy requires a verify callback, which accepts these credentials and calls done providing a user.

var TokenStrategy = require('passport-token').Strategy;

passport.use(new TokenStrategy(
	function (username, token, done) {
		User.findOne({username: username}, function (err, user) {
			if (err) {
				return done(err);
			}
			
			if (!user) {
				return done(null, false);
			}
			
			if (!user.verifyToken(token)) {
				return done(null, false);
			}
			
			return done(null, user);
		});
	}
));

By default, passport-token checks for username and token credentials in either the header or request body in these locations:

Headers

x-username
x-token

Body fields

username
token

Configure

These credential locations can be configured when defining the strategy as follows:

var TokenStrategy   = require('passport-token').Strategy;
var strategyOptions = {
    usernameHeader: 'x-custom-username',
    tokenHeader:    'x-custom-token',        
    usernameField:  'custom-username',
    tokenField:     'custom-token'
};

passport.use(new TokenStrategy(strategyOptions,
	function (username, token, done) {
		User.findOne({username: username}, function (err, user) {
			if (err) {
				return done(err);
			}
			
			if (!user) {
				return done(null, false);
			}
			
			if (!user.verifyToken(token)) {
				return done(null, false);
			}
			
			return done(null, user);
		});
	}

Authenticate

Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the token strategy to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.put('/animals/dogs', passport.authenticate('token'), function (req, res) {
	// User authenticated and can be found in req.user
});

If authentication fails in the above example then a 401 response will be given. However there may be times you wish a bit more control and delegate the failure to your application:

app.put('/animals/dogs', authenticate, function (req, res) {
	   // User authenticated and can be found in req.user
});

function authenticate(req, res, next) {
    passport.authenticate('token', function (err, user, info) {
        if (err) {
            return next(err);
        }
        
        if (!user) {
            return res.status(401).json({message: "Incorrect token credentials"});
        }
       
        req.user = user;
        next();
    });
}      

Credits

Jared Hanson

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2011 Jared Hanson

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:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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