Passwordless-MongoStore

This module provides token storage for Passwordless, a node.js module for express that allows website authentication without password using verification through email or other means. Visit the project's website https://passwordless.net for more details.

Tokens are stored in a MongoDB database and are hashed and salted using bcrypt. If you have trouble installing bcrypt (esp. on Windows) you could also consider using the slower but pure-JS version of MongoStore.

Usage

First, install the module:

$ npm install passwordless-mongostore --save

Afterwards, follow the guide for Passwordless. A typical implementation may look like this:

``javascript
var passwordless = require('passwordless');
var MongoStore = require('passwordless-mongostore');

var mongoURI = 'mongodb://localhost/passwordless-simple-mail';
passwordless.init(new MongoStore(mongoURI));

passwordless.addDelivery(
function(tokenToSend, uidToSend, recipient, callback) {
// Send out a token
});

app.use(passwordless.sessionSupport());
app.use(passwordless.acceptToken());
`

Initialization

`javascript
new MongoStore(uri, [options]);
`
uri: (string)* MongoDB URI as further described in the MongoDB docs
[options]: (object)* Optional. This can include MongoClient options as described in the docs and the ones described below combined in one object as shown in the example

Example:
`javascript
var mongoURI = 'mongodb://localhost/passwordless-simple-mail';
passwordless.init(new MongoStore(mongoURI, {
server: {
auto_reconnect: true
},
mongostore: {
collection: 'token'
}
}));
`

$3

[mongostore.collection]: (string)* Optional. Name of the collection to be used. Default: 'passwordless-token'

Hash and salt

As the tokens are equivalent to passwords (even though they do have the security advantage of only being valid for a limited time) they have to be protected in the same way. passwordless-mongostore uses bcrypt with automatically created random salts. To generate the salt 10 rounds are used.

Tests

$ npm test`

License

MIT License

Author

Florian Heinemann @thesumofall