Using existing users from _user about superlogin

[ronycohen]

Hi, I think you can't. Superlogin use its own users DB.

[ander2]

So then, why is dbServer.couchAuthDB option available?

Which is it's purpose? I'm little bit confused with this.

[ronycohen]

It's because there is a difference between coudDB and Cloudant.

[colinskow]

@ander2 SuperLogin does not authenticate users directly with CouchDB, it only authenticates a user's sessions. When a user authenticates with SuperLogin, a (random) session key and password are generated. These credentials are temporary and can be used to authenticate with both your Node/Express API and CouchDB. The reason for this is that it is bad security to store a username and password (which may be the same on other sites) on a device and transmit it to the server on every request.

If you want normal simple CouchDB login, then SuperLogin is probably overkill for your needs. I created SuperLogin to increase the level of security and enable CouchDB and Node APIs to use the same authentication scheme.

[ybian]

@colinskow It is a smart idea to authenticate users' sessions in _users table. I was very excited when I first found this project. It does the exact things I had in my mind with the exact technology stack for my current project. It saved me a lot of time. Big thanks to you!!

[tohagan]

@colinskow Ditto. Very cool and just what I needed. Lovin' it :) !