I am using Auth0 to manage a large set of users across several different applications with some being web based and others desktop and mobile. Under the meta data for each user I have an array of applications each user can access, I wondered how I might check this when authenticating so that access would be refused if not within that list.
I can do this very easily on the applications, however it would be great to do it on Auth0.
Using a Rule defined as follows has provided me with the functionality I was looking for:
function (user, context, callback) {
// ACL object
var acl = {
"someAppName": [ 'user1@mail.com', 'user2@mail.com' ],
"otherApp": ['user2@mail.com']
}
// if App is not in the ACL, skip
if(!acl.hasOwnProperty(context.clientName)){
return callback(null, user, context);
}
// check if user has access to app
var userHasAccess = acl[context.clientName].some(
function (email) {
return email === user.email;
}
);
if (!userHasAccess) {
return callback(new UnauthorizedError('Access denied.'));
}
callback(null, user, context);
}