Openmaize v0.17.1 Openmaize

Openmaize is an authentication library for Elixir.

It provides the following functionality:

Authentication

  • Openmaize.Authenticate - authenticate the user, using JSON Web Tokens.
  • Openmaize.Login - handle login POST requests.
  • Openmaize.Logout - handle logout requests.

Email confirmation and password resetting

  • Openmaize.ConfirmEmail - verify the token that was sent to the user by email.
  • Openmaize.ResetPassword - verify the token that was sent to the user by email, but this time so that the user’s password can be reset.

Various helper functions

In the Openmaize.DB module:

  • add_password_hash - take an Ecto changeset, hash the password and add the password hash to the changeset.
  • add_confirm_token - add a confirmation token to the changeset.
  • add_reset_token - add a reset token to the changeset.

See the relevant module documentation for more details.

For configuration, see the documentation for Openmaize.Config.

There is an example of Openmaize being used with Phoenix at Openmaize-phoenix.

Summary

Functions

Restart the keymanager child process without keeping state

Functions

restart_keymanager()

Restart the keymanager child process without keeping state.

This can be used to remove the old keys and generate new ones. After being stopped, the keymanager will be restarted and new keys will be created.