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connect-auth

Useful authentication strategies based on warden. Available as a npm package.

Provides out of the box authentication strategies for:

  • HTTP Basic - sole or negotiated
  • HTTP Digest - sole or negotiated
  • Anonymous
  • Never
  • Facebook connect (OAuth 2)
  • Github (OAuth 2)
  • Yahoo (OAuth 1.0A)
  • Twitter (OAuth 1.0)
  • RPXNow / janrain SSO
  • Foursquare (thanks to http://github.com/stunti)
  • Custom OAuth Provider Strategy (Be your own 1.0A OAuth provider!) (A Port of Christian Amor Kvalheim's express-oauth-plugin)

Take Care!

-cj.

Testing

% make

Running with npm

% npm install connect-auth
% node examples/connect-testing.js

Edit /etc/hosts to include the following entry

% grep twit /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1    testtwitter.com

For basic auth

% open http://localhost:3000

For twitter auth

% open http://localhost:3000/twitter

Changelog

  • 0.2.2 Added support for SSO with google (not using OpenId, but OAuth, so an intermediary approach) (Masahiro Hayashi)
  • 0.2.1 Removed dead file that was seemingly breaking nDistro
  • 0.2.0
    Updated HTTP strategies c/o Robbie Clutton no longer require passwords to be stored in the plain. - Breaking change
    Changed the default javascript file from auth.js to index.js. - Breaking change
    Fixed the isAuthenticated mechanism to work with mongodb (Lakin Wecker, Richard Walsh)
    Realm parameter now ignored in the Authorization header for the OAuth Provider strategy (Wade Simmons)
  • 0.1.3
    Strategies can now be written that do not require the session middleware.
  • 0.1.2
    Added in new strategy that allows your authentication strategy to be a custom OAuth provider.
  • 0.1.0
    New simplified configuration (connect idiomatic) of strategies implemented.