macrostrat.auth_system 0.1.0

Authentication system for Macrostrat and related apps

Macrostrat authentication system

This module contains tools to manipulate Macrostrat's user authentication system. It is divided into two submodules:

• macrostrat.auth_system.legacy: A JWT-based authentication system relying on local storage of hashed passwords. This system was created as part of Sparrow and is being phased out in favor of a more modern system based on ORCID.
• macrostrat.auth_system.oauth: An ORCID-based user authentication system. This system will become the primary authentication system for Macrostrat.

We plan to gradually converge the functionality of both versions while phasing out the legacy system.

Key planned functionality

• Allow many Macrostrat-hosted services to easily integrate with Macrostrat's login and token flow
• Allow APIs to easily validate user credentials and tokens with minimum overhead
• Allow access to be checked in multiple ways:
  • Cookies and headers
  • Limited-time JWT tokens and long-duration, cancelable API tokens
  • Verify against Macrostrat "user group" or application-specific criteria ( e.g., a list of authorized ORCID IDs)