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Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it says it is. Authentication technology provides access control for systems by checking to see if a user's credentials match the credentials in a database of authorized users or in a data authentication server.

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sean-nicholas
sean-nicholas commented Jul 5, 2022

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NextAuth has the possibility to get the secret passed by its options. It would be great to have that for withAuth, too. Currently withAuth only accepts the secret via env vars. We don't store our secrets in env vars and now we have to patch process.env to get withAuth to run.

I'm happy to create a PR. Just wanted to know upfront if there is any reason why secret can

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mccutchen
mccutchen commented May 1, 2019

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The public key-based request signing functionality added to sso_proxy in buzzfeed/sso#106 is undocumented. In particular, it's not immediately obvious how to a) generate an appropriate keypair or b) validate a signed request in an upstream service.

Describe the solution you'd like

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