User management for APIs
GoTrue is a small open-source API written in Golang, that can act as a self-standing API service for handling user registration and authentication for Jamstack projects.
It's based on OAuth2 and JWT and will handle user signup, authentication and custom user data.
Configuration
You may configure GoTrue using either a configuration file named .env
,
environment variables, or a combination of both. Environment variables are prefixed with GOTRUE_
, and will always have precedence over values provided via file.
Top-Level
GOTRUE_SITE_URL=https://example.netlify.com/
SITE_URL
- string
required
The base URL your site is located at. Currently used in combination with other settings to construct URLs used in emails.
OPERATOR_TOKEN
- string
Multi-instance mode only
The shared secret with an operator (usually Netlify) for this microservice. Used to verify requests have been proxied through the operator and the payload values can be trusted.
DISABLE_SIGNUP
- bool
When signup is disabled the only way to create new users is through invites. Defaults to false
, all signups enabled.
GOTRUE_RATE_LIMIT_HEADER
- string
Header on which to rate limit the /token
endpoint.
API
GOTRUE_API_HOST=localhost
PORT=9999
API_HOST
- string
Hostname to listen on.
PORT
(no prefix) / API_PORT
- number
Port number to listen on. Defaults to 8081
.
API_ENDPOINT
- string
Multi-instance mode only
Controls what endpoint Netlify can access this API on.
REQUEST_ID_HEADER
- string
If you wish to inherit a request ID from the incoming request, specify the name in this value.
Database
GOTRUE_DB_DRIVER=mysql
DATABASE_URL=root@localhost/gotrue
DB_DRIVER
- string
required
Chooses what dialect of database you want. Must be mysql
.
DATABASE_URL
(no prefix) / DB_DATABASE_URL
- string
required
Connection string for the database.
DB_NAMESPACE
- string
Adds a prefix to all table names.
Migrations Note
Migrations are not applied automatically, so you will need to run them after you've built gotrue.
- If built locally:
./gotrue migrate
- Using Docker:
docker run --rm gotrue gotrue migrate
Logging
LOG_LEVEL=debug # available without GOTRUE prefix (exception)
GOTRUE_LOG_FILE=/var/log/go/gotrue.log
LOG_LEVEL
- string
Controls what log levels are output. Choose from panic
, fatal
, error
, warn
, info
, or debug
. Defaults to info
.
LOG_FILE
- string
If you wish logs to be written to a file, set log_file
to a valid file path.
Opentracing
Currently, only the Datadog tracer is supported.
GOTRUE_TRACING_ENABLED=true
GOTRUE_TRACING_HOST=127.0.0.1
GOTRUE_TRACING_PORT=8126
GOTRUE_TRACING_TAGS="tag1:value1,tag2:value2"
GOTRUE_SERVICE_NAME="gotrue"
TRACING_ENABLED
- bool
Whether tracing is enabled or not. Defaults to false
.
TRACING_HOST
- bool
The tracing destination.
TRACING_PORT
- bool
The port for the tracing host.
TRACING_TAGS
- string
A comma separated list of key:value pairs. These key value pairs will be added as tags to all opentracing spans.
SERVICE_NAME
- string
The name to use for the service.
JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
GOTRUE_JWT_SECRET=supersecretvalue
GOTRUE_JWT_EXP=3600
GOTRUE_JWT_AUD=netlify
JWT_SECRET
- string
required
The secret used to sign JWT tokens with.
JWT_EXP
- number
How long tokens are valid for, in seconds. Defaults to 3600 (1 hour).
JWT_AUD
- string
The default JWT audience. Use audiences to group users.
JWT_ADMIN_GROUP_NAME
- string
The name of the admin group (if enabled). Defaults to admin
.
JWT_DEFAULT_GROUP_NAME
- string
The default group to assign all new users to.
External Authentication Providers
We support bitbucket
, github
, gitlab
, and google
for external authentication.
Use the names as the keys underneath external
to configure each separately.
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=myappclientid
GOTRUE_EXTERNAL_GITHUB_SECRET=clientsecretvaluessssh
No external providers are required, but you must provide the required values if you choose to enable any.
EXTERNAL_X_ENABLED
- bool
Whether this external provider is enabled or not
EXTERNAL_X_CLIENT_ID
- string
required
The OAuth2 Client ID registered with the external provider.
EXTERNAL_X_SECRET
- string
required
The OAuth2 Client Secret provided by the external provider when you registered.
EXTERNAL_X_REDIRECT_URI
- string
required for gitlab
The URI a OAuth2 provider will redirect to with the code
and state
values.
EXTERNAL_X_URL
- string
The base URL used for constructing the URLs to request authorization and access tokens. Used by gitlab
only. Defaults to https://gitlab.com
.
Sending email is not required, but highly recommended for password recovery. If enabled, you must provide the required values below.
GOTRUE_SMTP_HOST=smtp.mandrillapp.com
GOTRUE_SMTP_PORT=587
GOTRUE_SMTP_USER=smtp-delivery@example.com
GOTRUE_SMTP_PASS=correcthorsebatterystaple
GOTRUE_SMTP_ADMIN_EMAIL=support@example.com
GOTRUE_MAILER_SUBJECTS_CONFIRMATION="Please confirm"
SMTP_ADMIN_EMAIL
- string
required
The From
email address for all emails sent.
SMTP_HOST
- string
required
The mail server hostname to send emails through.
SMTP_PORT
- number
required
The port number to connect to the mail server on.
SMTP_USER
- string
If the mail server requires authentication, the username to use.
SMTP_PASS
- string
If the mail server requires authentication, the password to use.
SMTP_MAX_FREQUENCY
- number
Controls the minimum amount of time that must pass before sending another signup confirmation or password reset email. The value is the number of seconds. Defaults to 900 (15 minutes).
MAILER_AUTOCONFIRM
- bool
If you do not require email confirmation, you may set this to true
. Defaults to false
.
MAILER_URLPATHS_INVITE
- string
URL path to use in the user invite email. Defaults to /
.
MAILER_URLPATHS_CONFIRMATION
- string
URL path to use in the signup confirmation email. Defaults to /
.
MAILER_URLPATHS_RECOVERY
- string
URL path to use in the password reset email. Defaults to /
.
MAILER_URLPATHS_EMAIL_CHANGE
- string
URL path to use in the email change confirmation email. Defaults to /
.
MAILER_SUBJECTS_INVITE
- string
Email subject to use for user invite. Defaults to You have been invited
.
MAILER_SUBJECTS_CONFIRMATION
- string
Email subject to use for signup confirmation. Defaults to Confirm Your Signup
.
MAILER_SUBJECTS_RECOVERY
- string
Email subject to use for password reset. Defaults to Reset Your Password
.
MAILER_SUBJECTS_EMAIL_CHANGE
- string
Email subject to use for email change confirmation. Defaults to Confirm Email Change
.
MAILER_TEMPLATES_INVITE
- string
URL path to an email template to use when inviting a user.
SiteURL
, Email
, and ConfirmationURL
variables are available.
Default Content (if template is unavailable):
<h2>You have been invited</h2>
<p>You have been invited to create a user on {{ .SiteURL }}. Follow this link to accept the invite:</p>
<p><a href="{{ .ConfirmationURL }}">Accept the invite</a></p>
MAILER_TEMPLATES_CONFIRMATION
- string
URL path to an email template to use when confirming a signup.
SiteURL
, Email
, and ConfirmationURL
variables are available.
Default Content (if template is unavailable):
<h2>Confirm your signup</h2>
<p>Follow this link to confirm your user:</p>
<p><a href="{{ .ConfirmationURL }}">Confirm your mail</a></p>
MAILER_TEMPLATES_RECOVERY
- string
URL path to an email template to use when resetting a password.
SiteURL
, Email
, and ConfirmationURL
variables are available.
Default Content (if template is unavailable):
<h2>Reset Password</h2>
<p>Follow this link to reset the password for your user:</p>
<p><a href="{{ .ConfirmationURL }}">Reset Password</a></p>
MAILER_TEMPLATES_EMAIL_CHANGE
- string
URL path to an email template to use when confirming the change of an email address.
SiteURL
, Email
, NewEmail
, and ConfirmationURL
variables are available.
Default Content (if template is unavailable):
<h2>Confirm Change of Email</h2>
<p>Follow this link to confirm the update of your email from {{ .Email }} to {{ .NewEmail }}:</p>
<p><a href="{{ .ConfirmationURL }}">Change Email</a></p>
WEBHOOK_URL
- string
Url of the webhook receiver endpoint. This will be called when events like validate
, signup
or login
occur.
WEBHOOK_SECRET
- string
Shared secret to authorize webhook requests. This secret signs the JSON Web Signature of the request. You should use this to verify the integrity of the request. Otherwise others can feed your webhook receiver with fake data.
WEBHOOK_RETRIES
- number
How often GoTrue should try a failed hook.
WEBHOOK_TIMEOUT_SEC
- number
Time between retries (in seconds).
WEBHOOK_EVENTS
- list
Which events should trigger a webhook. You can provide a comma separated list.
For example to listen to all events, provide the values validate,signup,login
.
Endpoints
GoTrue exposes the following endpoints:
-
GET /settings
Returns the publicly available settings for this gotrue instance.
{ "external": { "bitbucket": true, "github": true, "gitlab": true, "google": true }, "disable_signup": false, "autoconfirm": false }
-
POST /signup
Register a new user with an email and password.
{ "email": "email@example.com", "password": "secret" }
Returns:
{ "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-5555555555555", "email": "email@example.com", "confirmation_sent_at": "2016-05-15T20:49:40.882805774-07:00", "created_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00", "updated_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00" }
-
POST /invite
Invites a new user with an email.
{ "email": "email@example.com" }
Returns:
{ "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-5555555555555", "email": "email@example.com", "confirmation_sent_at": "2016-05-15T20:49:40.882805774-07:00", "created_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00", "updated_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00", "invited_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00" }
-
POST /verify
Verify a registration or a password recovery. Type can be
signup
orrecovery
and thetoken
is a token returned from either/signup
or/recover
.{ "type": "signup", "token": "confirmation-code-delivered-in-email", "password": "12345abcdef" }
password
is required for signup verification if no existing password exists.Returns:
{ "access_token": "jwt-token-representing-the-user", "token_type": "bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "refresh_token": "a-refresh-token" }
-
POST /recover
Password recovery. Will deliver a password recovery mail to the user based on email address.
{ "email": "email@example.com" }
Returns:
{}
-
POST /token
This is an OAuth2 endpoint that currently implements the password, refresh_token, and authorization_code grant types
grant_type=password&username=email@example.com&password=secret
or
grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=my-refresh-token
Once you have an access token, you can access the methods requiring authentication by settings the
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
header.Returns:
{ "access_token": "jwt-token-representing-the-user", "token_type": "bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "refresh_token": "a-refresh-token" }
-
GET /user
Get the JSON object for the logged in user (requires authentication)
Returns:
{ "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-5555555555555", "email": "email@example.com", "confirmation_sent_at": "2016-05-15T20:49:40.882805774-07:00", "created_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00", "updated_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00" }
-
PUT /user
Update a user (Requires authentication). Apart from changing email/password, this method can be used to set custom user data.
{ "email": "new-email@example.com", "password": "new-password", "data": { "key": "value", "number": 10, "admin": false } }
Returns:
{ "id": "11111111-2222-3333-4444-5555555555555", "email": "email@example.com", "confirmation_sent_at": "2016-05-15T20:49:40.882805774-07:00", "created_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00", "updated_at": "2016-05-15T19:53:12.368652374-07:00" }
-
POST /logout
Logout a user (Requires authentication).
This will revoke all refresh tokens for the user. Remember that the JWT tokens will still be valid for stateless auth until they expires.
TODO
- Schema for custom user data in config file