auth

Paddy 2015-03-03 Parent:e45bfa2abc00 Child:3223a8e679db

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auth/doc.go

Attach our Scope type to AuthCodes and Tokens. When obtaining an AuthorizationCode or Token, attach a slice of strings, each one a Scope ID, instead of just attaching the encoded string the user passes in. This will allow us to change our Scope encoding down the line, and is more conceptually faithful. Also, if an authorization request is made with an invalid scope, return the invalid_scope error.

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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@57 6 are permitted to login using their email address on record or their username interchangeably.
paddy@57 7 Care is also taken to be able to mitigate attacks that have already happened and plan ahead for
paddy@57 8 the worst case scenarios.
paddy@57 9
paddy@57 10 An OAuth2 provider is also built-in and provided, complete with client registration and management,
paddy@57 11 as well as a specification-based set of handlers for managing the issuing of grants and tokens. Token
paddy@57 12 validiity may be asserted through an API, or a proxy service is provided for stripping auth-specific
paddy@57 13 information from requests and replacing it with a trusted header containing information about the user
paddy@57 14 and client that authorized the request.
paddy@57 15 */
paddy@57 16 package auth