cf-password-reset-token

Generate and validate password reset tokens

Installation

npm install --save cf-password-reset-token

Usage

var passwordResetToken = require('cf-password-reset-token')
 
// Generate a token for an authable entity (i.e one that can authorize
// themself with the system – e.g. administrator, user, customer)
passwordResetToken.generate(authableEntity)
//-> { token: '...', expiry: '...'}
 
// Check that a password reset token is valid for a given authable entity
passwordResetToken.validate(authableEntity, token)
//-> true or false

API

var t = require('cf-password-reset-token')

t.generate(Object: authableEntity, Object: options)

authableEntity must have the following properties: created and password, along with an identity property that be configured with options.identityProperty. This defaults to 'emailAddress'. options.expiry can be used to configure how long the token is valid for. The default is 1 hour.

t.validate(Object: authableEntity, Object: token)

authableEntity is the entity that token should be validated against. This function will return true if both of the following conditions are met:

• token.token is a valid token
• token.expiry is not in the past
• Certain properties of authableEntity are the same as when the token was created: created, password and its identityProperty

Credits

Built by developers at Clock.

Licence

Licensed under the New BSD License