strapi/docs/3.x.x/en/guides/authentication.md

Authentication

⚠️ This feature requires the Users & Permissions plugin (installed by default).

Register a new user

This route lets you create new users.

Usage

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: 'http://localhost:1337/auth/local/register',
  data: {
    username: 'Strapi user',
    email: 'user@strapi.io',
    password: 'strapiPassword'
  },
  done: function(auth) {
    console.log('Well done!');
    console.log('User profile', auth.user);
    console.log('User token', auth.jwt);
  },
  fail: function(error) {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error);
  }
});

Login.

This route lets you login your users by getting an authentication token.

Local

• The identifier param can either be an email or a username.

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: 'http://localhost:1337/auth/local',
  data: {
    identifier: 'user@strapi.io',
    password: 'strapiPassword'
  },
  done: function(auth) {
    console.log('Well done!');
    console.log('User profile', auth.user);
    console.log('User token', auth.jwt);
  },
  fail: function(error) {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error);
  }
});

Providers

Thanks to Grant and Purest, you can easily use OAuth and OAuth2 providers to enable authentication in your application. By default, Strapi comes with four providers:

• Facebook
• Google
• Github
• Twitter

👀   See our complete example with detailed tutorials for each provider (with React)

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To use the providers authentication, set your credentials in the admin interface (Plugin Users & Permissions > Providers). Then update and enable the provider you want use.

Redirect your user to: GET /connect/:provider. eg: GET /connect/facebook

After his approval, he will be redirected to /auth/:provider/callback. The jwt and user data will be available in the body response.

Response payload:

{
  "user": {},
  "jwt": ""
}

Use your token to be identified as a user.

By default, each API request is identified as guest role (see permissions of guest's role in your admin dashboard). To make a request as a user, you have to set the Authorization token in your request headers. You receive a 401 error if you are not authorized to make this request or if your authorization header is not correct.

Usage

• The token variable is the data.jwt received when login in or registering.

$.ajax({
  type: 'GET',
  url: 'http://localhost:1337/article',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${token}`
  },
  done: function(data) {
    console.log('Your data', data);
  },
  fail: function(error) {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error);
  }
});

Send forgot password request.

This action sends an email to a user with the link of you reset password page. This link contains an URL param code which is required to reset user password.

Usage

• email is your user email.
• url is the url link that user will receive.

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: 'http://localhost:1337/auth/forgot-password',
  data: {
    email: 'user@strapi.io',
    url: 'http://mon-site.com/rest-password'
  },
  done: function() {
    console.log('Your user received an email');
  },
  fail: function(error) {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error);
  }
});

Received link url format http://mon-site.com/rest-password?code=privateCode

Reset user password.

This action will reset the user password.

Usage

• code is the url params received from the email link (see forgot password)

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: 'http://localhost:1337/auth/reset-password',
  data: {
    code: 'privateCode',
    password: 'myNewPassword',
    passwordConfirmation: 'myNewPassword'
  },
  done: function() {
    console.log('Your user password is reset');
  },
  fail: function(error) {
    console.log('An error occurred:', error);
  }
});

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);
  }

Email templates

See the documentation on GitHub