Authenticate

A basic authentication service built with:

• Node.js
• Express
• Mongo
• Passport

Setup

• Define environment variables to be used in the configuration file (config.js)

module.exports = {
    email: process.env.EMAIL || false,
    mongo: process.env.MONGO_URL,
    port: process.env.PORT || 5800,
    sendMail: {
        from: '',
        subject: ''
    }
};

Assumptions

• If email is enabled, it is assumed that smpt is listening on port 25

API

Login

• path /login
• method POST
• data {username: [username], password: [password]}

Login out

• path /logout
• method POST
• data {username: [username]}

Register

• path /register
• method POST
• data {username: [username], password: [password]}

Pasword Reset

• path /reset
• method POST
• data {username: [username]}