Strategy for authenticating using local resources as the source of truth.

In order to use password authentication your resource needs to meet the following minimum requirements:

1. Have a primary key.
2. A uniquely constrained identity field (eg username or email).
3. A sensitive string field within which to store the hashed password.

There are other options documented in the DSL.

Example:

defmodule MyApp.Accounts.User do
  use Ash.Resource,
    extensions: [AshAuthentication]

  attributes do
    uuid_primary_key :id
    attribute :email, :ci_string, allow_nil?: false
    attribute :hashed_password, :string, allow_nil?: false, sensitive?: true
  end

  authentication do
    api MyApp.Accounts

    strategies do
      password :password do
        identity_field :email
        hashed_password_field :hashed_password
      end
    end
  end

  identities do
    identity :unique_email, [:email]
  end
end

Actions

By default the password strategy will automatically generate the register, sign-in, reset-request and reset actions for you, however you're free to define them yourself. If you do, then the action will be validated to ensure that all the needed configuration is present.

If you wish to work with the actions directly from your code you can do so via the AshAuthentication.Strategy protocol.

Examples:

Interacting with the actions directly:

iex> strategy = Info.strategy!(Example.User, :password)
...> {:ok, marty} = Strategy.action(strategy, :register, %{"username" => "marty", "password" => "outatime1985", "password_confirmation" => "outatime1985"})
...> marty.username |> to_string()
"marty"

...> {:ok, user} = Strategy.action(strategy, :sign_in, %{"username" => "marty", "password" => "outatime1985"})
...> user.username |> to_string()
"marty"

Plugs

The password strategy provides plug endpoints for all four actions, although only sign-in and register will be reported by Strategy.routes/1 if the strategy is not configured as resettable.

If you wish to work with the plugs directly, you can do so via the AshAuthentication.Strategy protocol.

Examples:

Dispatching to plugs directly:

iex> strategy = Info.strategy!(Example.User, :password)
...> conn = conn(:post, "/user/password/register", %{"user" => %{"username" => "marty", "password" => "outatime1985", "password_confirmation" => "outatime1985"}})
...> conn = Strategy.plug(strategy, :register, conn)
...> {_conn, {:ok, marty}} = Plug.Helpers.get_authentication_result(conn)
...> marty.username |> to_string()
"marty"

...> conn = conn(:post, "/user/password/reset_request", %{"user" => %{"username" => "marty"}})
...> conn = Strategy.plug(strategy, :reset_request, conn)
...> {_conn, :ok} = Plug.Helpers.get_authentication_result(conn)

Testing

See the Testing guide for tips on testing resources using this strategy.