A simple BASIC authenticator for Node.js implemented as a connect (express) middleware that uses PAM for authentication. PAM-auth uses the Basic authentication method provided by http. If you aren't using https this is insecure because username/passwords are transported in cleartext.
This is useful for when you don't want to have to make a user system, but you want to limit access. With this module you can simply use your system user database to manage users.
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To interface with PAM we need a dev package: sudo apt-get install libpam0g-dev
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Install pam-auth with npm: npm install pam-auth (or add pam-auth to your package.json and 'npm install')
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'use it!
var pam_auth = require('pam-auth');
app.use(pam_auth("MySite"));Thats it!
The interface: function pam_auth(realm, module)
Both arguments are optional. Realm defaults to "Login Required", and module defaults to 'passwd' for linux and 'chkpasswd' for macosx.