authentication

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Index

• Variables
• func AuthenticateUserLogin(username string, password string, requestIP string, requestUserAgent string) (*user.User, error)
• func GenerateSessionToken(validUser user.User) string
• func VerifyAndProcessToken(token string, requestIP string, requestUA string) (*user.User, error)

Variables

var SUPER_DUPER_SECRET_KEY []byte = []byte(os.Getenv("SALT")) //this will be moved...

Functions

func AuthenticateUserLogin

func AuthenticateUserLogin(username string, password string, requestIP string, requestUserAgent string) (*user.User, error)

AuthenticateUserLogin - authenticates a users credentials and returns the user or an error

func GenerateSessionToken

func GenerateSessionToken(validUser user.User) string

GenerateSessionToken use user identifying info to generate a session token

func VerifyAndProcessToken

func VerifyAndProcessToken(token string, requestIP string, requestUA string) (*user.User, error)

VerifyAndProcessToken for a given token verify it is untampered, unexpired,

and finally get the token data and compare it to request data.
Return User if valid or error if not