invenio-accounts 1.0.0b6

Invenio user management and authentication.

Invenio user management and authentication.

Features:

• User and role management.

• User registration, password reset/recovery and email verification.

• Administration interface and CLI for managing users.

• Session based authentication with session theft protection as well as “remember me” support.

• Strong cryptographic password hashing with support for migrating password hashes (including Invenio v1.x) to new stronger algorithms.

• Session activity tracking allowing users to e.g. logout of all devices.

• Server-side session management.

• JSON Web Token encoding and decoding support useful for e.g. CSRF-protection in REST APIs.

Invenio-Accounts relies on the following community packages to do all the heavy-lifting:

• Flask-Security

• Flask-Login

• Flask-Principal

• Flask-KVSession

• Passlib

Further documentation is available on https://invenio-accounts.readthedocs.io/

Changes

Version 1.0.0b6 (released 2017-07-25)

• Module rewrite using Flask-Security(-Fork).

Version 0.2.0 (released 2015-10-05)

Incompatible changes

• Removes legacy dashboard under ‘/youraccount/display’ and redirects to new settings panel.

• Moves functions from helpers to utils module and deprecates usage of helpers module.

Improved features

• Removes fixed user id from fixtures as it is automatically generated by database engine. (closes inveniosoftware/invenio#3320)

Bug fixes

• Removes dependencies to invenio.utils and replaces them with invenio_utils.

• Removes dependencies to invenio.testsuite and replaces them with invenio_testing.

• Removes calls to PluginManager consider_setuptools_entrypoints() removed in PyTest 2.8.0.

• Removes dependencies to invenio.ext and replaces them with invenio_ext.

• Adds missing invenio_base dependency.

• Adds return value to userext estimate method and fixes the table name.

• Nickname check rules uses only the nickname column instead of all of them.

Version 0.1.2 (released 2015-09-03)

• Changes way how the access tokens are generated from “mailcookie” to tokens using “itsdangerous” package. (#7)

• Removes support for local access configuration and the automatic SSO logout url rediction. (#8)

• Adds module for generating time limited tokens for password recovery. (#7)

• Changes index name definition in UserEXT model for id_user and method columns. (#5)

Version 0.1.1 (released 2015-08-25)

• Adds missing invenio_upgrader dependency and amends past upgrade recipes following its separation into standalone package.

Version 0.1.0 (released 2015-07-31)

• Initial public release.