connect-auth's Introduction

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

% 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

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.

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