user

Users

A user is an object with a username, password and array of roles. These properties are accessed by connect-security through get methods so the properties don't necessarily have to be part of your domain, e.g. if rather than a username you use an email address you may have a user object with

  function getUsername() {
    return this.emailAddress;
  }

A basic user object (and the user used by the InMemoryUserProvider) would look something like

  function User(username, password, roles) {
    this.username = username;
    this.password = password;
    this.roles = roles;
   }

  User.prototype.getUsername = function() {
    return this.username;
  }

  User.prototype.getPassword = function() {
    return this.password;
  }

  User.prototype.getRoles = function() {
    return this.roles;
  }

Roles

Roles are just Strings that define what role(s) a user has within your application. They are used to restrict access to certain areas of your application. For example the following would only print to the console for users with the role 'admin'.

  security.secure('admin', request, function() {
    console.log('user has admin privileges');
  });