Robac

Roles based access control for HTTP servers using JWT authorization.

Example

This module look for roles.json files in a given folder and returns a middleware that indicates if the access to a requested URL is forbidden or not. Access is given only if one or multiple roles within a JSON Web Token match the roles specified in the JSON file.

const http = require('http')
const roles = require('robac')

// parse folder, look for roles.json files with roles field and
// create roles based access control.
const handler = roles(__dirname, 'jwtsecret')

http.createServer((req, res) => {
  handler(req, (err) => {
    if (err) {
      // not authorized
    } else {
      // serve page when authorized
    }
  })
})

Check out an example

Installation

npm install robac --save

Question

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Contribution

Robac is an open source project and would not exist without its community. If you want to participate please make sure to read our guideline before making a pull request. If you have any robac related project, component or other let everyone know in our wiki.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Olivier Wietrich

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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