passport-ses

Password-less authentication strategy using AWS SES.

Install

$ npm install passport-ses

Usage

Configure Strategy

The SES strategy authenticates users by sending them an email containing a temporary token.

var SESStrategy = require('passport-ses').Strategy;
 
passport.use('ses', new SESStrategy({
    accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY,
    secretAccessKey: process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
    region: process.env.AWS_REGION,
    source: process.env.FROM_EMAIL,
    hostname: process.env.HOSTNAME || 'localhost:3750'
  }, function(email, done) {
    User.findOne({ email }, function(err, user) {
      done(err, user)
    })
  }
))

Authenticate Requests

app.get('/auth/ses', passport.authenticate('ses', {
  failureRedirect: '/login',
  successRedirect: '/',
  emailSentRedirect: '/check-email',
}))

Token Store API

The strategy expects a token store that has the following API model:

Token {
  value: String
  email: String
  timestamp: Date
  isValid: function() Boolean {}
  destroy: function() {}
}
 
TokenStore {
  set: function(value: String, email: String, callback: function(err, Token) {}) {}
  get: function(value: String, callback: function(err, Token) {}) {}
}

The default token storage method is an in-memory object, so restarting the server will delete any saved tokens.