strapi/docs/v3.x/plugins/users-permissions.md
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Roles & Permissions

This plugin provides a way to protect your API with a full authentication process based on JWT. This plugin comes also with an ACL strategy that allows you to manage the permissions between the groups of users.

To access the plugin admin panel, click on the Settings link in the left menu and then everything will be under the USERS & PERMISSIONS PLUGIN section.

Concept

When this plugin is installed, it adds an access layer on your application. The plugin uses jwt token to authenticate users.

Each time an API request is sent, the server checks if an Authorization header is present and verifies if the user making the request has access to the resource.

To do so, your JWT contains your user ID and we are able to match the group your user is in and at the end to know if the group allows access to the route.

Manage role permissions

Public role

This role is used when you receive a request that doesn't have an Authorization header. If you allow some permissions in this role, everybody will be able to access the endpoints you selected. This is common practice to select find / findOne endpoints when you want your front-end application to access all the content without developing user authentication and authorization.

Authenticated role

This is the default role that is given to every new user if no role is provided at creation. In this role you will be able to define routes that a user can access.

Permissions management

By clicking on the Role name, you will be able to see all functions available in your application (and these functions are related to a specific route)

If you check a function name, it makes this route accessible by the current role you are editing. On the right sidebar you will be able to see the URL related to this function.

Update the default role

When you create a user without a role or if you use the /auth/local/register route, the authenticated role is given to the user.

To change the default role, go to the Advanced settings tab and update the Default role for authenticated users option.

Authentication

Token usage

A jwt token may be used for making permission-restricted API requests. To make an API request as a user, place the jwt token into an Authorization header of the GET request. A request without a token, will assume the public role permissions by default. Modify the permissions of each user's role in admin dashboard. Authentication failures return a 401 (unauthorized) error.

Usage

  • The token variable is the data.jwt received when logging in or registering.
import axios from 'axios';

const token = 'YOUR_TOKEN_HERE';

// Request API.
axios
  .get('http://localhost:1337/posts', {
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`,
    },
  })
  .then(response => {
    // Handle success.
    console.log('Data: ', response.data);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    // Handle error.
    console.log('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

JWT configuration

You can configure option for the JWT generation by creating extensions/users-permissions/config/security.json file. We are using jsonwebtoken to generate the JWT.

Available options:

  • expiresIn: expressed in seconds or a string describing a time span zeit/ms.
    Eg: 60, "2 days", "10h", "7d". A numeric value is interpreted as a seconds count. If you use a string be sure you provide the time units (days, hours, etc), otherwise milliseconds unit is used by default ("120" is equal to "120ms").

Path — extensions/users-permissions/config/security.json

{
  "jwt": {
    "expiresIn": "1d"
  }
}

Registration

Creates a new user in the database with a default role as 'registered'.

Usage

import axios from 'axios';

// Request API.
// Add your own code here to customize or restrict how the public can register new users.
axios
  .post('http://localhost:1337/auth/local/register', {
    username: 'Strapi user',
    email: 'user@strapi.io',
    password: 'strapiPassword',
  })
  .then(response => {
    // Handle success.
    console.log('Well done!');
    console.log('User profile', response.data.user);
    console.log('User token', response.data.jwt);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    // Handle error.
    console.log('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

Login

Submit the user's identifier and password credentials for authentication. When the authentication is successful, the response data returned will have the user's information along with a jwt authentication token.

Local

  • The identifier param can either be an email or a username.
import axios from 'axios';

// Request API.
axios
  .post('http://localhost:1337/auth/local', {
    identifier: 'user@strapi.io',
    password: 'strapiPassword',
  })
  .then(response => {
    // Handle success.
    console.log('Well done!');
    console.log('User profile', response.data.user);
    console.log('User token', response.data.jwt);
  })
  .catch(error => {
    // Handle error.
    console.log('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

Providers

Thanks to Grant and Purest, you can easily use OAuth and OAuth2 providers to enable authentication in your application.

For better understanding, you may find as follows the description of the login flow. To simplify the explanation, we used github as the provider but it works the same for the other providers.

Understanding the login flow

Let's say that strapi's backend is located at: strapi.website.com. Let's say that your app frontend is located at: website.com.

  1. The user goes on your frontend app (https://website.com) and click on your button connect with Github.
  2. The frontend redirect the tab to the backend URL: https://strapi.website.com/connect/github.
  3. The backend redirects the tab to the GitHub login page where the user logs in.
  4. Once done, Github redirects the tab to the backend URL:https://strapi.website.com/connect/github/callback?code=abcdef.
  5. The backend uses the given code to get from Github an access_token that can be used for a period of time to make authorized requests to Github to get the user info (the email of the user of example).
  6. Then, the backend redirects the tab to the url of your choice with the param access_token (example: http://website.com/connect/github/redirect?access_token=eyfvg)
  7. The frontend (http://website.com/connect/github/redirect) calls the backend with https://strapi.website.com/auth/github/callback?access_token=eyfvg that returns the strapi user profile with its jwt.
    (Under the hood, the backend asks Github for the user's profile and a match is done on Github user's email address and Strapi user's email address)
  8. The frontend now possesses the user's jwt, with means the user is connected and the frontend can make authenticated requests to the backend!

An example of a frontend app that handles this flow can be found here: react login example app.

Setting up the server url

Before setting up a provider, you need to specify the absolute url of your backend in server.js.

example - config/server.js

module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
  host: env('HOST', '0.0.0.0'),
  port: env.int('PORT', 1337),
  url: env('', 'http://localhost:1337'),
});

:::tip Later on you will give this url to your provider.
For development, some providers accept the use of localhost urls but many don't. In this case we recommand to use ngrok (ngrok http 1337) that will make a proxy tunnel from a url it created to your localhost url (ex: url: env('', 'https://5299e8514242.ngrok.io'),). :::

Setting up the provider - examples

Instead of a generic explanation, for better understanding, we decided to show an example for each provider.

In the following examples, the frontend app will be the react login example app.
It (the frontend app) will be running on http://localhost:3000.
Strapi (the backend) will be running on http://localhost:1337.

:::: tabs

::: tab GitHub

Using ngrok

Github doesn't accept localhost urls.
Use ngrok to serve the backend app.

ngrok http 1337

Don't forget to update the server url in the backend config file config/server.js and the server url in your frontend app (environment variable REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL if you use react login example app) with the generated ngrok url.

Github configuration

  • Visit the OAuth Apps list page https://github.com/settings/developers
  • Click on New OAuth App button
  • Fill the information (replace with your own ngrok url):
    • Application name: Strapi GitHub auth
    • Homepage URL: https://65e60559.ngrok.io
    • Application description: Strapi provider auth description
    • Authorization callback URL: https://65e60559.ngrok.io/connect/github/callback

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the GitHub provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 53de5258f8472c140917
    • Client Secret: fb9d0fe1d345d9ac7f83d7a1e646b37c554dae8b
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/github/redirect

:::

::: tab Facebook

Using ngrok

Facebook doesn't accept localhost urls.
Use ngrok to serve the backend app.

ngrok http 1337

Don't forget to update the server url in the backend config file config/server.js and the server url in your frontend app (environment variable REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL if you use react login example app) with the generated ngrok url.

Facebook configuration

  • Visit the Developer Apps list page
    https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
  • Click on Add a New App button
  • Fill the Display Name in the modal and create the app
  • Setup a Facebook Login product
  • Click on the PRODUCTS > Facebook login > Settings link in the left menu
  • Fill the information and save (replace with your own ngrok url):
    • Valid OAuth Redirect URIs: https://65e60559.ngrok.io/connect/facebook/callback
  • Then, click on Settings in the left menu
  • Then on Basic link
  • You should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Facebook provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 2408954435875229
    • Client Secret: 4fe04b740b69f31ea410b9391ff3b5b0
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/facebook/redirect

:::

::: tab Google

Using ngrok

Google accepts the localhost urls.
The use of ngrok is not needed.

Google configuration

  • Visit the Google Developer Console
    https://console.developers.google.com/
  • Click on the Select a project dropdown in the top menu
  • Then click NEW PROJECT button
  • Fill the Project name input and create

Wait a few seconds while the application is created.

  • On the project dropdown, select your new project
  • Click on Go to APIs overview under the APIs card
  • Then click on the Credentials link in the left menu
  • Click on OAuth consent screen button
  • Choose External and click on create
  • Fill the Application name and save
  • Then click on Create credentials button
  • Choose OAuth client ID option
  • Fill the information:
    • Name: Strapi Auth
    • Authorized redirect URIs: http://localhost:1337/connect/google/callback
  • Click on OAuth 2.0 Client IDs name of the client you just created
  • You should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Google provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 226437944084-o2mojv5i4lfnng9q8kq3jkf5v03avemk.apps.googleusercontent.com
    • Client Secret: aiTbMoiuJQflSBy6uQrfgsni
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/google/redirect

:::

::: tab Twitter

Using ngrok

Twitter doesn't accept localhost urls.
Use ngrok to serve the backend app.

ngrok http 1337

Don't forget to update the server url in the backend config file config/server.js and the server url in your frontend app (environment variable REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL if you use react login example app) with the generated ngrok url.

Twitter configuration

  • Visit the Apps list page
    https://developer.twitter.com/en/apps
  • Click on Create an app button
  • Fill the information (replace with your own ngrok url):
    • App name: Strapi Twitter auth
    • Application description: This is a demo app for Strapi auth
    • Tell us how this app will be used: - here write a message enough long -
  • At the end of the process you should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later
  • Go to you app setting and click on edit Authentication settings
  • Enable 3rd party authentication AND Request email address from users
  • Fill the information (replace with your own ngrok url):
    • Callback URLs: https://65e60559.ngrok.io/connect/twitter/callback
    • Website URL: https://65e60559.ngrok.io
    • Privacy policy: https://d73e70e88872.ngrok.io
    • Terms of service: https://d73e70e88872.ngrok.io

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Twitter provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: yfN4ycGGmKXiS1njtIYxuN5IH
    • Client Secret: Nag1en8S4VwqurBvlW5OaFyKlzqrXFeyWhph6CZlpGA2V3VR3T
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/twitter/redirect

:::

::: tab Discord

Using ngrok

Discord accepts the localhost urls.
The use of ngrok is not needed.

Discord configuration

  • Visit the Apps list page on the developer portal
    https://discordapp.com/developers/applications/
  • Click on New application button
  • Fill the name and create
  • Click on OAuth2 in the left menu
  • And click on Add redirect button
  • Fill the Redirect input with http://localhost:1337/connect/discord/callback URL and save
  • Click on General information in the left menu
  • You should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Discord provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 665118465148846081
    • Client Secret: iJbr7mkyqyut-J2hGvvSDch_5Dw5U77J
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/discord/redirect

:::

::: tab Twitch

Using ngrok

Discord accepts the localhost urls.
The use of ngrok is not needed.

Twitch configuration

  • Visit the Apps list page on the developer console
    https://dev.twitch.tv/console/apps
  • Click on Register Your Application button
  • Fill the information:
    • Name: Strapi auth
    • OAuth Redirect URLs: http://localhost:1337/connect/twitch/callback
    • Category: Choose a category
  • Click on Manage button of your new app
  • Generate a new Client Secret with the New Secret button
  • You should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Twitch provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: amuy279g8wt68qlht3u4gek4oykh5j
    • Client Secret: dapssh10uo97gg2l25qufr8wen3yr6
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/twitch/redirect

:::

::: tab Instagram

Using ngrok

Facebook doesn't accept localhost urls.
Use ngrok to serve the backend app.

ngrok http 1337

Don't forget to update the server url in the backend config file config/server.js and the server url in your frontend app (environment variable REACT_APP_BACKEND_URL if you use react login example app) with the generated ngrok url.

Instagram configuration

  • Visit the Developer Apps list page
    https://developers.facebook.com/apps/
  • Click on Add a New App button
  • Fill the Display Name in the modal and create the app
  • Setup an Instagram product
  • Click on the PRODUCTS > Instagram > Basic Display link in the left menu
  • Then click on the Create new application button (and valid the modal)
  • Fill the information (replace with your own ngrok url):
    • Valid OAuth Redirect URIs: https://65e60559.ngrok.io/connect/instagram/callback
    • Deauthorize: https://65e60559.ngrok.io
    • Data Deletion Requests: https://65e60559.ngrok.io
  • On the App Review for Instagram Basic Display click on Add to submission for instagram_graph_user_profile.
  • You should see your Application ID and secret, save them for later

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the Instagram provider
  • Fill the information (replace with your own client ID and secret):
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 563883201184965
    • Client Secret: f5ba10a7dd78c2410ab6b8a35ab28226
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/instagram/redirect

:::

::: tab VK

Using ngrok

Discord accepts the localhost urls.
The use of ngrok is not needed.

VK configuration

  • Visit the Apps list page
    https://vk.com/apps?act=manage
  • Click on Create app button
  • Fill the information:
    • Title: Strapi auth
    • Platform: Choose Website option
    • Website address: http://localhost:1337
    • Base domain: localhost
  • Click on the Settings link in the left menu
  • Click on the Open API link to enable this option
  • Fill the information:
    • Authorized redirect URL: http://localhost:1337/connect/vk/callback

Strapi configuration

:::

::: tab LinkedIn

Using ngrok

LinkedIn accepts the localhost urls.
The use of ngrok is not needed.

LinkedIn configuration

  • Visit the Apps list page
    https://www.linkedin.com/developers/apps
  • Click on Create app button
  • Fill the information:
    • App name: Strapi auth
    • LinkedIn Page: Enter a LinkedIn page name to associate with the app or click Create a new LinkedIn Page to create a new one
    • App Logo: Upload a square image that is at least 100x100 pixels.
  • Click on the Create app to create the app
  • On the app page click on Auth tab
  • Fill the information:
    • Authorized redirect URL: http://localhost:1337/connect/linkedin/callback
  • On the app page click on Products tab.
  • Select Sign In with LinkedIn from the product list to enable it.

Strapi configuration

  • Visit the User Permissions provider settings page
    http://localhost:1337/admin/plugins/users-permissions/providers
  • Click on the LinkedIn provider
  • Fill the information:
    • Enable: ON
    • Client ID: 84witsxk641rlv
    • Client Secret: HdXO7a7mkrU5a6WN
    • The redirect URL to your front-end app: http://localhost:3000/connect/linkedin/redirect

:::

::::

Your configuration is done. Launch the backend and the react login example app, go to http://localhost:3000 and try to connect to the provider your configured. It should work 🎉

What you have to do in your frontend

Once you have configured strapi and the provider, in your frontend app you have to :

  • Create a button that links to GET STRAPI_BACKEND_URL/connect/${provider} (ex: https://strapi.mywebsite/connect/github).
  • Create a frontend route like FRONTEND_URL/connect/${provider}/redirect that have to handle the access_token param and that have to request STRAPI_BACKEND_URL/auth/${provider}/callback with the access_token param.
    The JSON request response will be { "jwt": "...", "user": {...} }.

Now you can make authenticated requests 🎉 More info here: token usage.

:::warning Troubleshooting

  • Error 429: It's most likely because your login flow fell into a loop. To make new requests to the backend, you need to wait a few minutes or restart the backend.
  • Grant: missing session or misconfigured provider: It may be du to many things.
    • The redirect url can't be built: Make sure you have set the backend url in config/server.js: Setting up the server url
    • A session/cookie/cache problem: You can try again in a private tab.
    • The incorrect use of a domain with ngrok: Check your urls and make sure that you use the ngrok url instead of http://localhost:1337. Don't forget to check the backend url set in the example app at src/config.js.
  • You can't access your admin panel: It's most likely because you built it with the backend url set with a ngrok url and you stopped/restarted ngrok. You need to replace the backend url with the new ngrok url and run yarn build or npm run build again. :::

Forgotten & reset password

Can only be used for users registered using the email provider.

The flow was thought this way:

  1. The user goes to your forgotten password page
  2. The user enters his/her email address
  3. Your forgotten password page sends a request to the backend to send an email with the reset password link to the user
  4. The user receives the email, and clicks on the special link
  5. The link redirects the user to your reset password page
  6. The user enters his/her new password
  7. The reset password page sends a request to the backend with the new password
  8. If the request contains the code contained in the link at step 3., the password is updated
  9. The user can log in with the new password

In the following section we will detail steps 3. and 7..

This action sends an email to a user with the link to your own reset password page. The link will be enriched with the url param code that is needed for the reset password at step 7..

First, you must specify the url to your reset password page in the admin panel: Settings > USERS & PERMISSIONS PLUGIN > Advanced Settings > Reset Password Page.

Then, your forgotten password page has to make the following request to your backend.

import axios from 'axios';

// Request API.
axios
  .post('http://localhost:1337/auth/forgot-password', {
    email: 'user@strapi.io', // user's email
  })
  .then(response => {
    console.log('Your user received an email');
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

Reset Password: send the new password

This action will update the user password. Also works with the GraphQL Plugin, with the resetPassword mutation.

Your reset password page has to make the following request to your backend.

import axios from 'axios';

// Request API.
axios
  .post('http://localhost:1337/auth/reset-password', {
    code: 'privateCode', // code contained in the reset link of step 3.
    password: 'userNewPassword',
    passwordConfirmation: 'userNewPassword',
  })
  .then(response => {
    console.log("Your user's password has been reset.");
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

Congrats, you're done!

Email validation

:::tip NOTE In production, make sure the url config property is set. Otherwise the validation link will redirect to localhost. More info on the config here. :::

After having registered, if you have set Enable email confirmation to ON, the user will receive a confirmation link by email. The user has to click on it to validate his/her registration.

Example of the confirmation link: https://yourwebsite.com/auth/email-confirmation?confirmation=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6MywiaWF0IjoxNTk0OTgxMTE3LCJleHAiOjE1OTc1NzMxMTd9.0WeB-mvuguMyr4eY8CypTZDkunR--vZYzZH6h6sChFg

If needed, you can re-send the confirmation email by making the following request.

import axios from 'axios';

// Request API.
axios
  .post(`http://localhost:1337/auth/send-email-confirmation`, {
    email: 'user@strapi.io', // user's email
  })
  .then(response => {
    console.log('Your user received an email');
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.error('An error occurred:', error.response);
  });

User object in Strapi context

The user object is available to successfully authenticated requests.

Usage

  • The authenticated user object is a property of ctx.state.
create: async ctx => {
  const { id } = ctx.state.user;

  const depositObj = {
    ...ctx.request.body,
    depositor: id,
  };

  const data = await strapi.services.deposit.add(depositObj);

  // Send 201 `created`
  ctx.created(data);
};

Adding a new provider (to your project)

Only providers handled by grant are supported.
You can check the 180+ supported providers list there: https://github.com/simov/grant#180-supported-providers--oauth-playground.

Prepare your files

To add a new provider on Strapi, you will need to perform changes onto the following files:

extensions/users-permissions/services/Providers.js
extensions/users-permissions/config/functions/bootstrap.js
extensions/users-permissions/admin/src/components/PopUpForm/index.js
extensions/users-permissions/admin/src/translations/en.json

If these files don't exist you will need to copy from your node_modules or the Strapi mono-repo. You can see plugin extensions for more information on how it works.

We will go step by step.

Configure your Provider Request

Configure the new provider in the Provider.js file at the getProfile function.

The getProfile takes three params:

  • provider: The name of the used provider as a string.
  • query: The query is the result of the provider callback.
  • callback: The callback function who will continue the internal Strapi login logic.

Here is an example that uses the discord provider.

Configure your oauth generic information

case 'discord': {
  const discord = new Purest({
    provider: 'discord',
    config: {
      'discord': {
        'https://discordapp.com/api/': {
          '__domain': {
            'auth': {
              'auth': {'bearer': '[0]'}
            }
          },
          '{endpoint}': {
            '__path': {
              'alias': '__default'
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  });
}

This code creates a Purest object that gives us a generic way to interact with the provider's REST API.

For more specs on using the Purest module, please refer to the Official Purest Documentation

You may also want to take a look onto the numerous already made configurations here.

Retrieve your user's information:

For our discord provider it will look like:

  discord.query().get('users/@me').auth(access_token).request((err, res, body) => {
    if (err) {
      callback(err);
    } else {
      // Combine username and discriminator because discord username is not unique
      const username = `${body.username}#${body.discriminator}`;
      callback(null, {
        username,
        email: body.email
      });
    }
  });
  break;
}

Here is the next part of our switch. Now that we have properly configured our provider, we want to use it to retrieve user information.

Here you see the real power of purest, you can simply make a get request on the desired URL, using the access_token from the query parameter to authenticate.

That way, you should be able to retrieve the user info you need.

Now, you can simply call the callback function with the username and email of your user. That way, Strapi will be able to retrieve your user from the database and log you in.

Configure the new provider model onto database

Now, we need to configure our 'model' for our new provider. That way, our settings can be stored in the database, and managed from the admin panel.

Open the file packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/config/functions/bootstrap.js

Add the fields your provider needs into the grantConfig object. For our discord provider it will look like:

discord: {
  enabled: false,  // make this provider disabled by default
  icon: 'comments', // The icon to use on the UI
  key: '',  // our provider app id (leave it blank, you will fill it with the content manager)
  secret: '', // our provider secret key (leave it blank, you will fill it with the content manager)
  callback: '/auth/discord/callback', // the callback endpoint of our provider
  scope: [  // the scope that we need from our user to retrieve information
    'identify',
    'email'
  ]
},

Configure frontend for your new provider

To make the new provider available on the front end of the application, edit packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/admin/src/components/PopUpForm/index.js Add the new provider info. For our discord provider it will look like:

case 'discord':
  return `${strapi.backendURL}/connect/discord/callback`;

Add language translation

Add the language translation in packages/strapi-plugin-users-permissions/admin/src/translations/en.json

'PopUpForm.Providers.discord.providerConfig.redirectURL': 'The redirect URL to add in your Discord application configurations',

These two change will set up the popup message that appears in the UI. That's it, now you should be able to use your new provider.

Rebuild the Admin Panel

Please see the following documentation on rebuilding the admin panel.

Templating emails

By default, this plugin comes with only two templates (reset password and email address confirmation) at the moment. More templates will come later. The templates use Lodash's template() method to populate the variables.

You can update these templates under Plugins > Roles & Permissions > Email Templates tab in the admin panel.

Reset Password

  • USER (object)
    • username
    • email
  • TOKEN corresponds to the token generated to be able to reset the password.
  • URL is the link where the user will be redirected after clicking on it in the email.

Email address confirmation

  • USER (object)
    • username
    • email
  • CODE corresponds to the CODE generated to be able confirm the user email.
  • URL is the Strapi backend URL that confirms the code (by default /auth/email-confirmation).

Security configuration

JWT tokens can be verified and trusted because the information is digitally signed. To sign a token a secret is required. By default Strapi generates one that is stored in ./extensions/users-permissions/config/jwt.js. This is useful during development but for security reasons it is recommended to set a custom token via an environment variable JWT_SECRET when deploying to production.

By default you can set a JWT_SECRET environment variable and it will be used as secret. If you want to use another variable you can update the configuration file.

Path - ./extensions/users-permissions/config/jwt.js.

module.exports = {
  jwtSecret: process.env.SOME_ENV_VAR,
};

::: tip You can learn more on configuration in the documentation here :::