There are some irreversible actions that user can do in my app. To add a level of security, I'd like to verify that the person performing such an action is actually the logged in user. How can I achieve it?
For users with passwords, I'd like a prompt that would ask for entering user password again. How can I later verify this password, without sending it over the wire?
Is a similar action possible for users logged via external service? If yes, how to achieve it?
I can help with the first question. As of this writing, meteor doesn't have a checkPassword
method, but here's how you can do it:
On the client, I'm going to assume you have a form with an input called password
and a button called check-password
. The event code could look something like this:
Template.userAccount.events({
'click #check-password': function() {
var digest = Package.sha.SHA256($('#password').val());
Meteor.call('checkPassword', digest, function(err, result) {
if (result) {
console.log('the passwords match!');
}
});
}
});
Then on the server, we can implement the checkPassword
method like so:
Meteor.methods({
checkPassword: function(digest) {
check(digest, String);
if (this.userId) {
var user = Meteor.user();
var password = {digest: digest, algorithm: 'sha-256'};
var result = Accounts._checkPassword(user, password);
return result.error == null;
} else {
return false;
}
}
});
For more details, please see my blog post. I will do my best to keep it up to date.
I haven't done this before, but I think you will need something like this on your server
Accounts.registerLoginHandler(function(loginRequest) {
console.log(loginRequest)
var userId = null;
var username = loginRequest.username;
// I'M NOT SURE HOW METEOR PASSWORD IS HASHED...
// SO YOU NEED TO DO A BIT MORE RESEARCH ON THAT SIDE
// BUT LET'S SAY YOU HAVE IT NOW
var password = loginRequest.password;
var user = Meteor.users.findOne({
$and: [
{username: username},
{password: password}
]
});
if(!user) {
// ERROR
} else {
// VERIFIED
}
});
then you can call this function from the client side like this:
// FETCH THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD SOMEHOW
var loginRequest = {username: username, password: password};
Accounts.callLoginMethod({
methodArguments: [loginRequest]
});
I have a project on github for different purpose, but you can get a sense of how it is structured: https://github.com/534N/apitest
Hope this helps,