postgrest-auth

postgrest-auth is an authorization server for PostgREST written in Node.js.

It provides the following endpoints:

POST /auth/users # create a new user and responds with an "access_token"

POST /auth/refresh_token # returns a new access_token

POST /auth/change_password # changes a user's password and returns a new access_token

POST /auth/change_email # changes a user's email

POST /auth/forgot_password # emails a reset_token that can be used to change password

POST /auth/forgot_username # emails the user his or her username

Setup

Install postgrest-auth:

npm i -g postgrest-auth

postgrest-auth uses a web_anon role for unauthenticated users and a normal_user role for users that are authenticated.

You must specify the anonymous role in your postgrest.conf file.

db-anon-role = "web_anon"

To invalidate unexpired or stolen tokens, postgrest-auth uses the token count strategy.

Update your postgrest.conf to add the auth.check_token_count() function to the pre-request field.

pre-request = "auth.check_token_count"

Lastly, postgrest-auth uses a postgrest-auth.json file to know how to connect to postgres and the email account that will send emails when users signup, forget their passwords, forget their usernames, etc. You will have to change the postgrest-auth.json example below to work with your application configuration.

// postgrest-auth.json example
{
  "app_name": "A Game of Theories", // used in email signature
  "db": {
    "connection": {
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 5432,
      "database": "postgres",
      "user": "postgres",
      "password": "pass"
    },
    "connection_string": "postgres://postgres:pass@localhost/postgres",
    "pool": {
      "min": 2,
      "max": 10
    },
    "schema": "auth",
    "table": "users"
  },
  "email": {
    "from": "[email protected]",
    "host": "mail.privateemail.com",
    "port": 465,
    "secure": true,
    "auth": {
        "user": "[email protected]",
        "pass": "thepassword"
    }
  },
  "payload": {
    "exp": 604800,
    "iss": "https://agameoftheories.com"
  },
  "port": 3001,
  "roles": {
    "anonymous": "web_anon",
    "user": "normal_user"
  },
  "secret": "secret" // jwt secret
}

Once you have created the postgrest-auth.json file, start the postgrest-auth server.

postgrest-auth --config postgrest-auth.json