PythonFlaskIdentityManagement

Links

• flask-identity: https://pypi.org/project/flask-identity/
  • Tutorial: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-authentication-to-your-app-with-flask-login
  • Quickstart: https://flask-identity.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quickstart.html
• PyJWT: https://pypi.org/project/PyJWT/
  • JSON Web Tokens: login, create a token server side with a private key, store it in a cookie
  • Lots of PyJWT Stuff: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=pyjwt&ia=web
  • Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5bIPtEbS0Q

PyJWT

• working from : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5bIPtEbS0Q

cd projects/cypherpunk/cypherpunk_reddit/flask/test_auth
python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate # deactivate to deactivate
pip install flask
pip install flask-pyjwt

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from flask import Flask, jsonify, request, make_response
import jwt

app = Flask(__name__)

token_expire_offset = timedelta(minutes=30)

app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = 'super secret'

@app.route('/unprotected')
def unprotected():
    return ''

@app.route('/protected')
def protected():
    return ''

@app.route('/login')
def login():
    auth = request.authorization

    if auth and auth.password == 'password':
        token = jwt.encode({'user':auth.username,
                            'exp':datetime.utcnow() + token_expire_offset},
                           key = app.config['SECRET_KEY'])
        return jsonify({'token': token})
    
    return make_response('Could not verify!', 401, {'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="Login Required"'})

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)
    pass