Show HN: Open Source Authentication and Authorization
📰 Hacker News · rishabhpoddar
Learn how to implement open-source authentication and authorization with a single solution, simplifying user access management
Action Steps
- Implement user authentication using Supertokens' open-source solution
- Configure user roles for authorization using Supertokens' user roles product
- Integrate authentication and authorization into a single solution
- Test and validate user access permissions
- Deploy the solution to production
Who Needs to Know This
Web developers and CTOs can benefit from this solution, as it streamlines authentication and authorization processes, reducing the complexity of implementing two independent solutions
Key Insight
💡 Authentication and authorization can be combined into a single solution, reducing complexity and increasing efficiency
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🔒 Simplify user access management with open-source authentication and authorization! #authn #authz
Full Article
I’m Rishabh and the co-founder and CTO at https://supertokens.com (YC S20). We offer open-source user authentication and we just released our user roles product for companies implementing authorization. Our users are web developers, and a prominent and adjacent pain point for our users is authorization. Developers typically implement two independent solutions for authentication and authorization. Offering AuthN and AuthZ in a single solution is something we’ve been thinking about for the last few years. Quick primer, authentication is knowing who the user is, and authorization is knowing what the user has access to. A physical analogy: A person enters a building. Authentication means reading their ID card and knowing that the person’s name is John. Authorization means knowing which floors, offices, and files John has access to. With increasing privacy and data complexity, companies like Netflix[1], Slack[2], and Airbnb[3] have built out their own complex authorization systems
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