auth

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auth/doc.go

Implement an endpoint for token information. Implement an endpoint that allows us to look up information on a token. We strip the refresh token before the response is sent to avoid leaking the response token.

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paddy@57 1 /*
paddy@57 2 Package auth provides an authentication service for managing user accounts and an OAuth2 provider.
paddy@57 3
paddy@57 4 The service is an opinionated implementation of authentication using passphrases and the
paddy@57 5 code.secondbit.org/pass package to implement user credentials and accounts. Additionally, users
paddy@158 6 are permitted to login using any email address they have on record. Care is also taken to be able
paddy@158 7 to mitigate attacks that have already happened and plan ahead for the worst case scenarios.
paddy@57 8
paddy@57 9 An OAuth2 provider is also built-in and provided, complete with client registration and management,
paddy@57 10 as well as a specification-based set of handlers for managing the issuing of grants and tokens. Token
paddy@57 11 validiity may be asserted through an API, or a proxy service is provided for stripping auth-specific
paddy@57 12 information from requests and replacing it with a trusted header containing information about the user
paddy@57 13 and client that authorized the request.
paddy@57 14 */
paddy@57 15 package auth