passport-freeipa

Passport strategy for authenticating with a username and password.

This module lets you authenticate using a username and password in your Node.js applications. By plugging into Passport, freeipa authentication can be easily and unobtrusively integrated into any application or framework that supports Connect-style middleware, including Express.

Install

$ npm i --save passport-freeipa

Usage

Configure Strategy

The freeipa authentication strategy authenticates users using a username and password. The strategy requires a verify callback, which will return the credentials and calls done providing a user.

passport.use(new FreeipaStrategy(
  { options,
    freeipa: { // node-freeipa options
      server: 'someservername'
    }
  },
));

Available Options

This strategy takes an optional options hash before the function, e.g. new FreeipaStrategy({/* options */, callback}).

The available options are:

• usernameField - Optional, defaults to 'username'
• passwordField - Optional, defaults to 'password'
• passReqToCallback - Optional, defaults to 'false'
• freeipa - Needed, same values as node-freeipa config.

Both fields define the name of the properties in the POST body that are sent to the server.

Parameters

By default, FreeipaStrategy expects to find credentials in parameters named username and password. If your site prefers to name these fields differently, options are available to change the defaults.

passport.use(new FreeipaStrategy({
    usernameField: 'email',
    passwordField: 'passwd',
    session: false
  },
));

When session support is not necessary, it can be safely disabled by setting the session option to false.

The verify callback can be supplied with the request object by setting the passReqToCallback option to true, and changing callback arguments accordingly.

passport.use(new FreeipaStrategy({
    passReqToCallback: true,
    freeipa: {server: 'somevalidserver'}
  },
  (req, user, done) => {
    // request object is now first argument
    // ...
  }
));

Or just using the verifyCallback without using passReqToCallback:

passport.use(new FreeipaStrategy({
    passReqToCallback: true,
    freeipa: {server: 'somevalidserver'}
  },
  (user, done) => {
    // user || false
  }
));

Authenticate Requests

Use passport.authenticate(), specifying the 'freeipa' strategy, to authenticate requests.

For example, as route middleware in an Express application:

app.post('/login',
  passport.authenticate('freeipa', { failureRedirect: '/login' }),
  function(req, res) {
    res.redirect('/');
  });

Tests

$ npm install
$ npm test

Credits

• Lucas Diedrich

This project structure is also based over:

• Passport Local
• Passport LDAP

License

The MIT License