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Passwordless Auth: Server
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Passwordless authentication allows logging in without a password, just an email. Its a more secure way of doing than the classic email/password login.
Ill show you how to code an HTTP API in [Go][6] that provides this service.
### Flow
* User inputs his email.
* Server creates a temporal on-time-use code associated with the user (like a temporal password) and mails it to the user in form of a “magic link”.
* User clicks the magic link.
* Server extract the code from the magic link, fetch the user associated and redirects to the client with a new JWT.
* Client will use the JWT in every new request to authenticate the user.
### Requisites
* Database: Well use an SQL database called [CockroachDB][1] for this. Its much like postgres, but writen in Go.
* SMTP Server: To send mails well use a third party mailing service. For development well use [mailtrap][2]. Mailtrap sends all the mails to its inbox, so you dont have to create multiple fake email accounts to test it.
Install Go from [its page][7] and check your installation went ok with `go version`(1.10.1 atm).
Download CockroachDB from [its page][8], extract it and add it to your `PATH`. Check that all went ok with `cockroach version` (2.0 atm).
### Database Schema
Now, create a new directory for the project inside `GOPATH` and start a new CockroachDB node with `cockroach start`:
```
cockroach start --insecure --host 127.0.0.1
```
It will print some things, but check the SQL address line, it should said something like `postgresql://root@127.0.0.1:26257?sslmode=disable`. Well use this to connect to the database later.
Create a `schema.sql` file with the following content.
```
DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS passwordless_demo CASCADE;
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS passwordless_demo;
SET DATABASE = passwordless_demo;
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (
id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
email STRING UNIQUE,
username STRING UNIQUE
);
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS verification_codes (
id UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
user_id UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES users ON DELETE CASCADE,
created_at TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
);
INSERT INTO users (email, username) VALUES
('john@passwordless.local', 'john_doe');
```
This script creates a database `passwordless_demo`, two tables: `users` and `verification_codes`, and inserts a fake user just to test it later. Each verification code is associated with a user and stores the creation date, useful to check if the code is expired or not.
To execute this script use `cockroach sql` in other terminal:
```
cat schema.sql | cockroach sql --insecure
```
### Environment Configuration
I want you to set two environment variables: `SMTP_USERNAME` and `SMTP_PASSWORD` that you can get from your mailtrap account. These two will be required by our program.
### Go Dependencies
For Go well need the following packages:
* [github.com/lib/pq][3]: Postgres driver which CockroachDB uses.
* [github.com/matryer/way][4]: Router.
* [github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go][5]: JWT implementation.
```
go get -u github.com/lib/pq
go get -u github.com/matryer/way
go get -u github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
```
### Coding
### Init Function
Create the `main.go` and start by getting some configuration from the environment inside the `init` function.
```
var config struct {
port int
appURL *url.URL
databaseURL string
jwtKey []byte
smtpAddr string
smtpAuth smtp.Auth
}
func init() {
config.port, _ = strconv.Atoi(env("PORT", "80"))
config.appURL, _ = url.Parse(env("APP_URL", "http://localhost:"+strconv.Itoa(config.port)+"/"))
config.databaseURL = env("DATABASE_URL", "postgresql://root@127.0.0.1:26257/passwordless_demo?sslmode=disable")
config.jwtKey = []byte(env("JWT_KEY", "super-duper-secret-key"))
smtpHost := env("SMTP_HOST", "smtp.mailtrap.io")
config.smtpAddr = net.JoinHostPort(smtpHost, env("SMTP_PORT", "25"))
smtpUsername, ok := os.LookupEnv("SMTP_USERNAME")
if !ok {
log.Fatalln("could not find SMTP_USERNAME on environment variables")
}
smtpPassword, ok := os.LookupEnv("SMTP_PASSWORD")
if !ok {
log.Fatalln("could not find SMTP_PASSWORD on environment variables")
}
config.smtpAuth = smtp.PlainAuth("", smtpUsername, smtpPassword, smtpHost)
}
func env(key, fallbackValue string) string {
v, ok := os.LookupEnv(key)
if !ok {
return fallbackValue
}
return v
}
```
* `appURL` will allow us to build the “magic link”.
* `port` in which the HTTP server will start.
* `databaseURL` is the CockroachDB address, I added `/passwordless_demo` to the previous address to indicate the database name.
* `jwtKey` used to sign JWTs.
* `smtpAddr` is a join of `SMTP_HOST` + `SMTP_PORT`; well use it to to send mails.
* `smtpUsername` and `smtpPassword` are the two required vars.
* `smtpAuth` is also used to send mails.
The `env` function allow us to get an environment variable with a fallback value in case it doesnt exist.
### Main Function
```
var db *sql.DB
func main() {
var err error
if db, err = sql.Open("postgres", config.databaseURL); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("could not open database connection: %v\n", err)
}
defer db.Close()
if err = db.Ping(); err != nil {
log.Fatalf("could not ping to database: %v\n", err)
}
router := way.NewRouter()
router.HandleFunc("POST", "/api/users", jsonRequired(createUser))
router.HandleFunc("POST", "/api/passwordless/start", jsonRequired(passwordlessStart))
router.HandleFunc("GET", "/api/passwordless/verify_redirect", passwordlessVerifyRedirect)
router.Handle("GET", "/api/auth_user", authRequired(getAuthUser))
addr := fmt.Sprintf(":%d", config.port)
log.Printf("starting server at %s 🚀\n", config.appURL)
log.Fatalf("could not start server: %v\n", http.ListenAndServe(addr, router))
}
```
First, it opens a database connection. Remember to load the driver.
```
import (
_ "github.com/lib/pq"
)
```
Then, we create the router and define some endpoints. For the passwordless flow we use two endpoints: `/api/passwordless/start` mails the magic link and `/api/passwordless/verify_redirect` respond with the JWT.
Finally, we start the server.
You can create empty handlers and middlewares to test that the server starts.
```
func createUser(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusNotImplemented), http.StatusNotImplemented)
}
func passwordlessStart(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusNotImplemented), http.StatusNotImplemented)
}
func passwordlessVerifyRedirect(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusNotImplemented), http.StatusNotImplemented)
}
func getAuthUser(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
http.Error(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusNotImplemented), http.StatusNotImplemented)
}
func jsonRequired(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
next(w, r)
}
}
func authRequired(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
next(w, r)
}
}
```
Now:
```
go build
./passwordless-demo
```
Im on a directory called “passwordless-demo”, but if yours is different, `go build` will create an executable with that name. If you didnt close the previous cockroach node and you setted `SMTP_USERNAME` and `SMTP_PASSWORD` vars correctly, you should see `starting server at http://localhost/ 🚀` without errors.
### JSON Required Middleware
Endpoints that need to decode JSON from the request body need to make sure the request is of type `application/json`. Because that is a common thing, I decoupled it to a middleware.
```
func jsonRequired(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
ct := r.Header.Get("Content-Type")
isJSON := strings.HasPrefix(ct, "application/json")
if !isJSON {
respondJSON(w, "JSON body required", http.StatusUnsupportedMediaType)
return
}
next(w, r)
}
}
```
As easy as that. First it gets the request content type from the headers, then check if it starts with “application/json”, otherwise it early return with `415 Unsupported Media Type`.
### Respond JSON Function
Responding with JSON is also a common thing so I extracted it to a function.
```
func respondJSON(w http.ResponseWriter, payload interface{}, code int) {
switch value := payload.(type) {
case string:
payload = map[string]string{"message": value}
case int:
payload = map[string]int{"value": value}
case bool:
payload = map[string]bool{"result": value}
}
b, err := json.Marshal(payload)
if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not marshal response payload: %v", err))
return
}
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8")
w.WriteHeader(code)
w.Write(b)
}
```
First, it does a type assertion for primitive types to wrap they in a `map`. Then it marshalls to JSON, sets the response content type and status code, and writes the JSON. In case the JSON marshalling fails, it respond with an internal error.
### Respond Internal Error Function
`respondInternalError` is a funcion that respond with `500 Internal Server Error`, but it also logs the error to the console.
```
func respondInternalError(w http.ResponseWriter, err error) {
log.Println(err)
respondJSON(w,
http.StatusText(http.StatusInternalServerError),
http.StatusInternalServerError)
}
```
### Create User Handler
Ill start coding the `createUser` handler because is the more easy and REST-ish.
```
type User struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Email string `json:"email"`
Username string `json:"username"`
}
```
The `User` type is just like the `users` table.
```
var (
rxEmail = regexp.MustCompile("^[^\\s@]+@[^\\s@]+\\.[^\\s@]+$")
rxUsername = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z][\\w|-]{1,17}$")
)
```
These regular expressions are to validate email and username respectively. These are very basic, feel free to adapt they as you need.
Now, **inside** `createUser` function well start by decoding the request body.
```
var user User
if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&user); err != nil {
respondJSON(w, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
return
}
defer r.Body.Close()
```
We create a JSON decoder using the request body and decode to a user pointer. In case of error we return with a `400 Bad Request`. Dont forget to close the body reader.
```
errs := make(map[string]string)
if user.Email == "" {
errs["email"] = "Email required"
} else if !rxEmail.MatchString(user.Email) {
errs["email"] = "Invalid email"
}
if user.Username == "" {
errs["username"] = "Username required"
} else if !rxUsername.MatchString(user.Username) {
errs["username"] = "Invalid username"
}
if len(errs) != 0 {
respondJSON(w, errs, http.StatusUnprocessableEntity)
return
}
```
This is how I make validation; a simple `map` and check if `len(errs) != 0` to return with `422 Unprocessable Entity`.
```
err := db.QueryRowContext(r.Context(), `
INSERT INTO users (email, username) VALUES ($1, $2)
RETURNING id
`, user.Email, user.Username).Scan(&user.ID)
if errPq, ok := err.(*pq.Error); ok && errPq.Code.Name() == "unique_violation" {
if strings.Contains(errPq.Error(), "email") {
errs["email"] = "Email taken"
} else {
errs["username"] = "Username taken"
}
respondJSON(w, errs, http.StatusForbidden)
return
} else if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not insert user: %v", err))
return
}
```
This SQL query inserts a new user with the given email and username, and returns the auto generated id. Each `$` will be replaced by the next arguments passed to `QueryRowContext`.
Because the `users` table had unique constraints on the `email` and `username`fields I check for the “unique_violation” error to return with `403 Forbidden` or I return with an internal error.
```
respondJSON(w, user, http.StatusCreated)
```
Finally I just respond with the created user.
### Passwordless Start Handler
```
type PasswordlessStartRequest struct {
Email string `json:"email"`
RedirectURI string `json:"redirectUri"`
}
```
This struct holds the `passwordlessStart` request body. The email of the user who wants to log in. The redirect URI comes from the client (the app that will use our API) ex: `https://frontend.app/callback`.
```
var magicLinkTmpl = template.Must(template.ParseFiles("templates/magic-link.html"))
```
Well use the golang template engine to build the mailing so Ill need you to create a `magic-link.html` file inside a `templates` directory with a content like so:
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Magic Link</title>
</head>
<body>
Click <a href="{{ .MagicLink }}" target="_blank">here</a> to login.
<br>
<em>This link expires in 15 minutes and can only be used once.</em>
</body>
</html>
```
This template is the mail well send to the user with the magic link. Feel free to style it how you want.
Now, **inside** `passwordlessStart` function:
```
var input PasswordlessStartRequest
if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&input); err != nil {
respondJSON(w, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)
return
}
defer r.Body.Close()
```
First, we decode the request body like before.
```
errs := make(map[string]string)
if input.Email == "" {
errs["email"] = "Email required"
} else if !rxEmail.MatchString(input.Email) {
errs["email"] = "Invalid email"
}
if input.RedirectURI == "" {
errs["redirectUri"] = "Redirect URI required"
} else if u, err := url.Parse(input.RedirectURI); err != nil || !u.IsAbs() {
errs["redirectUri"] = "Invalid redirect URI"
}
if len(errs) != 0 {
respondJSON(w, errs, http.StatusUnprocessableEntity)
return
}
```
For the redirect URI validation we use the golang URL parser and check that the URI is absolute.
```
var verificationCode string
err := db.QueryRowContext(r.Context(), `
INSERT INTO verification_codes (user_id) VALUES
((SELECT id FROM users WHERE email = $1))
RETURNING id
`, input.Email).Scan(&verificationCode)
if errPq, ok := err.(*pq.Error); ok && errPq.Code.Name() == "not_null_violation" {
respondJSON(w, "No user found with that email", http.StatusNotFound)
return
} else if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not insert verification code: %v", err))
return
}
```
This SQL query will insert a new verification code associated with a user with the given email and return the auto generated id. Because the user could not exist, that subquery can resolve to `NULL` which will fail the `NOT NULL`constraint on the `user_id` field so I do a check on that and return with `404 Not Found` in case or an internal error otherwise.
```
q := make(url.Values)
q.Set("verification_code", verificationCode)
q.Set("redirect_uri", input.RedirectURI)
magicLink := *config.appURL
magicLink.Path = "/api/passwordless/verify_redirect"
magicLink.RawQuery = q.Encode()
```
Now, I build the magic link and set the `verification_code` and `redirect_uri`inside the query string. Ex: `http://localhost/api/passwordless/verify_redirect?verification_code=some_code&redirect_uri=https://frontend.app/callback`.
```
var body bytes.Buffer
data := map[string]string{"MagicLink": magicLink.String()}
if err := magicLinkTmpl.Execute(&body, data); err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not execute magic link template: %v", err))
return
}
```
Well get the magic link template content saving it to a buffer. In case of error I return with an internal error.
```
to := mail.Address{Address: input.Email}
if err := sendMail(to, "Magic Link", body.String()); err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not mail magic link: %v", err))
return
}
```
To mail the user I make use of `sendMail` function that Ill code now. In case of error I return with an internal error.
```
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusNoContent)
```
Finally, I just set the response status code to `204 No Content`. The client doesnt need more data than a success status code.
### Send Mail Function
```
func sendMail(to mail.Address, subject, body string) error {
from := mail.Address{
Name: "Passwordless Demo",
Address: "noreply@" + config.appURL.Host,
}
headers := map[string]string{
"From": from.String(),
"To": to.String(),
"Subject": subject,
"Content-Type": `text/html; charset="utf-8"`,
}
msg := ""
for k, v := range headers {
msg += fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s\r\n", k, v)
}
msg += "\r\n"
msg += body
return smtp.SendMail(
config.smtpAddr,
config.smtpAuth,
from.Address,
[]string{to.Address},
[]byte(msg))
}
```
This function creates the structure of a basic HTML mail and sends it using the SMTP server. There is a lot of things you can customize of a mail, but I kept it simple.
### Passwordless Verify Redirect Handler
```
var rxUUID = regexp.MustCompile("^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-4[0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$")
```
First, this regular expression is to validate an UUID (the verification code).
Now, **inside** `passwordlessVerifyRedirect` function:
```
q := r.URL.Query()
verificationCode := q.Get("verification_code")
redirectURI := q.Get("redirect_uri")
```
`/api/passwordless/verify_redirect` is a `GET` endpoint so we read data from the query string.
```
errs := make(map[string]string)
if verificationCode == "" {
errs["verification_code"] = "Verification code required"
} else if !rxUUID.MatchString(verificationCode) {
errs["verification_code"] = "Invalid verification code"
}
var callback *url.URL
var err error
if redirectURI == "" {
errs["redirect_uri"] = "Redirect URI required"
} else if callback, err = url.Parse(redirectURI); err != nil || !callback.IsAbs() {
errs["redirect_uri"] = "Invalid redirect URI"
}
if len(errs) != 0 {
respondJSON(w, errs, http.StatusUnprocessableEntity)
return
}
```
Pretty similar validation, but we store the parsed redirect URI into a `callback`variable.
```
var userID string
if err := db.QueryRowContext(r.Context(), `
DELETE FROM verification_codes
WHERE id = $1
AND created_at >= now() - INTERVAL '15m'
RETURNING user_id
`, verificationCode).Scan(&userID); err == sql.ErrNoRows {
respondJSON(w, "Link expired or already used", http.StatusBadRequest)
return
} else if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not delete verification code: %v", err))
return
}
```
This SQL query deletes a verification code with the given id and makes sure it has been created no more than 15 minutes ago, it also returns the `user_id`associated. In case of no rows, means the code didnt exist or it was expired so we respond with that, otherwise an internal error.
```
expiresAt := time.Now().Add(time.Hour * 24 * 60)
tokenString, err := jwt.NewWithClaims(jwt.SigningMethodHS256, jwt.StandardClaims{
Subject: userID,
ExpiresAt: expiresAt.Unix(),
}).SignedString(config.jwtKey)
if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not create JWT: %v", err))
return
}
```
This is how the JWT is created. We set an expiration date for the JWT within 60 days. Maybe you can give it less time (~2 weeks) and add a new endpoint to refresh tokens, but I didnt want to add more complexity.
```
expiresAtB, err := expiresAt.MarshalText()
if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not marshal expiration date: %v", err))
return
}
f := make(url.Values)
f.Set("jwt", tokenString)
f.Set("expires_at", string(expiresAtB))
callback.Fragment = f.Encode()
```
We plan to redirect; you could use the query string to add the JWT, but Ive seen that a hash fragment is more used. Ex: `https://frontend.app/callback#jwt=token_here&expires_at=some_date`.
The expiration date could be extracted from the JWT, but then the client will have to implement a JWT library to decode it, so to make the life easier I just added it there too.
```
http.Redirect(w, r, callback.String(), http.StatusFound)
```
Finally we just redirect with a `302 Found`.
* * *
The passwordless flow is completed. Now we just need to code the `getAuthUser`endpoint which is to get info about the current authenticated user. If you rememeber, this endpoint makes use of `authRequired` middleware.
### With Auth Middleware
Before coding the `authRequired` middleware, Ill code one that doesnt require authentication. I mean, if no JWT is passed, it just continues without authenticating the user.
```
type ContextKey int
const (
keyAuthUserID ContextKey = iota
)
func jwtKeyFunc(*jwt.Token) (interface{}, error) {
return config.jwtKey, nil
}
func withAuth(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
a := r.Header.Get("Authorization")
hasToken := strings.HasPrefix(a, "Bearer ")
if !hasToken {
next(w, r)
return
}
tokenString := a[7:]
p := jwt.Parser{ValidMethods: []string{jwt.SigningMethodHS256.Name}}
token, err := p.ParseWithClaims(tokenString, &jwt.StandardClaims{}, jwtKeyFunc)
if err != nil {
respondJSON(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusUnauthorized), http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
claims, ok := token.Claims.(*jwt.StandardClaims)
if !ok || !token.Valid {
respondJSON(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusUnauthorized), http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
ctx := r.Context()
ctx = context.WithValue(ctx, keyAuthUserID, claims.Subject)
next(w, r.WithContext(ctx))
}
}
```
The JWT will come in every request inside the “Authorization” header in the form of “Bearer <token_here>”. So if no token is present, we just pass to the next middleware.
We create a parser and parse the token. If fails, we return with `401 Unauthorized`.
Then we extract the claims inside the JWT and add the `Subject` (which is the user ID) to the request context.
### Auth Required Middleware
```
func authRequired(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
return withAuth(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
_, ok := r.Context().Value(keyAuthUserID).(string)
if !ok {
respondJSON(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusUnauthorized), http.StatusUnauthorized)
return
}
next(w, r)
})
}
```
Now, `authRequired` will make use of `withAuth` and will try to extract the authenticated user ID from the request context. If fails, it returns with `401 Unauthorized` otherwise continues.
### Get Auth User
**Inside** `getAuthUser` handler:
```
ctx := r.Context()
authUserID := ctx.Value(keyAuthUserID).(string)
user, err := fetchUser(ctx, authUserID)
if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
respondJSON(w, http.StatusText(http.StatusTeapot), http.StatusTeapot)
return
} else if err != nil {
respondInternalError(w, fmt.Errorf("could not query auth user: %v", err))
return
}
respondJSON(w, user, http.StatusOK)
```
First we extract the ID of the authenticated user from the request context, we use that to fetch the user. In case of no row returned, we send a `418 I'm a teapot` or an internal error otherwise. Lastly we just respond with the user 😊
### Fetch User Function
You saw a `fetchUser` function there.
```
func fetchUser(ctx context.Context, id string) (User, error) {
user := User{ID: id}
err := db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
SELECT email, username FROM users WHERE id = $1
`, id).Scan(&user.Email, &user.Username)
return user, err
}
```
I decoupled it because fetching a user by ID is a common thing.
* * *
Thats all the code. Build it and test it yourself. You can try a live demo [here][9].
If you have problems about `Blocked script execution because the document's frame is sandboxed and the 'allow-scripts' permission is not set` after clicking the magic link on mailtrap, try doing a right click + “Open link in new tab”. This is a security thing where the mail content is [sandboxed][10]. I had this problem sometimes on `localhost`, but I think you should be fine once you deploy the server with `https://`.
Please leave any issues on the [GitHub repo][11] or feel free to send PRs 👍
Ill write a second part for this post coding a client for the API.
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[1]:https://www.cockroachlabs.com/
[2]:https://mailtrap.io/
[3]:https://github.com/lib/pq
[4]:https://github.com/matryer/way
[5]:https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go
[6]:https://golang.org/
[7]:https://golang.org/dl/
[8]:https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/install-cockroachdb.html
[9]:https://go-passwordless-demo.herokuapp.com/
[10]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/iframe#attr-sandbox
[11]:https://github.com/nicolasparada/go-passwordless-demo
[12]:https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=986602458716803074