eugeniop / passport-ip

An IP based authentication passport strategy

An IP based authentication passport strategy.

Installation

npm i eugeniop/passport-ip --save

Usage

Register the strategy in passport as follows:

var passport = require('passport');
var IpStrategy = require('passport-ip').Strategy;

passport.use(new IpStrategy({
  range: '10.0.0.0/8'
}, function(profile, done){
  done(null, profile);
  //profile.id is the ip address.
}));

Configuration behind a proxy

If you are running your express application behind a proxy that you trust:

app.enable('trust proxy');

Then passport-ip will use the X-Forwarded-For header.

License

MIT 2014 Eugenio Pace