Openmaize

Authentication and authorization library for Elixir

Goals

Openmaize is an authentication and authorization library that aims to be:

• secure
• lightweight
• easy to use
• well documented

It should work with any application that uses Plug, but it has only been tested with the Phoenix Web Framework.

Installation

1. Add openmaize to your mix.exs dependencies

  defp deps do
    [ {:openmaize, "~> 0.12"} ]
  end

1. List :openmaize as an application dependency

  def application do
    [applications: [:logger, :openmaize]]
  end

1. Run mix do deps.get, compile

Use

Before you use Openmaize, you need to make sure that your user model is configured correctly. See the documentation for Openmaize.Signup for details.

You then need to configure Openmaize. For more information, see the documentation for the Openmaize.Config module.

Openmaize provides the following plugs:

• Openmaize.Authenticate
  • authenticates the user
  • sets (adds to the assigns map) the current_user variable
• Openmaize.AccessControl.authorize
  • check, based on the user’s role, to see if the user is authorized to access the page
• Openmaize.AccessControl.authorize_id
  • check, based on user id, to see if the user is authorized to access the page
• Openmaize.Login
  • handle login POST request
• Openmaize.Logout
  • handle logout request

See the relevant module documentation for more details.

There is an example of Openmaize being used with Phoenix at Openmaize-phoenix.

License

BSD