SALTI-Admin

Simple Authentication/Authentication Library for Thali IoT

Provides a simple Express Middleware implementation that checks a simple Authorization header.

A supporting sample that utilizes PouchDB and express-pouchdb

Using the library..

npm install --save salti-admin

Server side setup.

You should have an Express site available.

var adminAcl = require('salti-admin');

Determine a secret.

You can use any secret - but, there is a utility method to generate one.

The example below - this generates a secret - then sets the secret for the salti-admin library, then also sets the Express app property (optional).

Then this inserts the middleware, and the final call here sets up express-pouchdb app.

 
adminAcl.generateSecret(function (err, secret) {
 
  adminAcl.setSecret(secret);
  
  //also setting this in the App - see above for the API route
  app.set('secret', secret);
  
  //inject our middleware.. - needs to be BEFORE the express-pouchdb app setup.
  app.use(adminAcl.isAdminOk);
 
  app.use('/', require('express-pouchdb')(PouchDB, pouchOptions));
 
});
 

Client setup

This just requires that the same secret is shared on the client.

For example, here we're setting the PouchDB client options.

The secret is the same from above with the word CLEAR as a prefix

  pouchDbOptions.ajax.headers = {
    'User-Agent': 'request',
    'Authorization' : 'CLEAR ' + secret
  }
  
  var remoteDB = new PouchDB('https://localhost:3001/_validate', pouchDbOptions)

Setting up..

• First - clone - then run npm install on both the root and the sample
• Then move to the directory
• run npm install
• run the tests with mocha
• move to the sample directory
• run npm install
• run the sample app

git clone https://github.com/cicorias/salti-admin
cd salti-admin
npm install
mocha
cd sample
npm install
node ./server.js

Running Tests

You first should have mocha installed.

npm install -g mocha

Then from the root, just run mocha

Running solution

There is a sample solution that sets up 3 Express sites.

cd sample
npm install
node ./server

At this point, you have 3 sites running.

Go to the main site at https://localhost:3000

From there other links are visible: PouchDB / Fauxton site: http://localhost:3002

Validation Page.

Validation page demonstrates the creation of a document - check the code for the calling pattern.

The field that shows the current secret it set automatcially at startup.

Try a few "create docs" and you should see the response in the green box.

Then, change the key to something else - then again try to create docs - at this point you should see messages on each failure in the red box.