nodenv-basic-auth

nodenv-basic-auth extend the package basic-auth with express or connect middleware layer and the function to extract user credentials from environment variables.
To get/set user credentials dynamically is very useful on PaaS platforms like heroku. This give you the ability to enable or disable basic-auth and set multiple user credentials without deploy your product for any of these changes.

To add user through environment variable both parameters, username and password, are required. By default the prefix for username is basicauth_user and for password basicauth_pass.
To add multiple users, add an additional idententication string to parameter name. This additional string must be same for username and password.

Example

export basicauth_user = user1
export basicauth_password = pass1
# add more users 
export basicauth_user2 = user2
export basicauth_password2 = pass2
export basicauth_user_mike = mike
export basicauth_password_mike = secret

Install

$ npm install nodenv-basic-auth

Usage

// Initialize nodenv-basic-auth
var NodenvBasicAuth = require('nodenv-basic-auth');
var auth = new NodenvBasicAuth();
// enable auth on route
app.get('/home', auth, function(req, res) {
 res.send('Hello World');
});

Extend usage

nodenv-basic-auth accept 2 parameters on initialisation. First parameter is options which give you the possibility to set environment naming convention for credential.
The second parameter 'users' transmit user credentials.

Options

Object properties:
userPrefix
Environment prefix to identify username. Default basicauth_user

passPrefix
Environment postfix to identify password. Default basicauth_pass

Users

Object to transmit user credentials:

var defaultUsers = {
  mike: 'secret',
  john: 'secret',
  ... 
}

License

MIT