User Authentication

About User Authentication

Using your user name and password, along with an account identifier, will instruct Crossbar to create an authentication token to be used on subsequent requests requiring authentication.

Schema

Provides an auth-token via user credentials

Key	Description	Type	Default	Required	Support Level
account_name	The account name of the user	string(1..128)		false
account_realm	The account realm of the user	string(4..253)		false
credentials	A hash of the user credentials	string(1..64)		true
method	The hash method	`string(‘md5’	‘sha’)`	md5	false
phone_number	A phone number assigned to the users account	string(1..64)		false

Create

PUT /v2/user_auth

curl -v -X PUT \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"data":{"credentials":"{CREDENTIALS_HASH}", "account_name":"{ACCOUNT_NAME}", "method":"[md5|sha]"}}' \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/user_auth

Where {CREDENTIALS_HASH} is MD5 or SHA1 hash of {username}:{password}.

Creating MD5 User/Pass credentials hash

$ echo -n 'john@example.com:m32c6NfqYEt' | md5sum
82a2dc91686ec828a67152d45a5c5ef7  -

Creating SHA1 User/Pass credentials hash

$ echo -n 'john@example.com:m32c6NfqYEt' | sha1sum
055cf886cb9b5c5867083463867c527ace0f8ecc  -

Responses

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {
        "account_id": "{ACCOUNT_ID}",
        "apps": [],
        "is_reseller": true,
        "language": "en-US",
        "owner_id": "{OWNER_ID}",
        "reseller_id": "{RESELLER_ID}"
    },
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "revision": "{REVISION}",
    "status": "success"
}

Fetch Token Auth Information

GET /v2/user_auth/{AUTH_TOKEN}

curl -v -X GET \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: {AUTH_TOKEN}" \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/user_auth/{AUTH_TOKEN}

{
    "data": {
        "account_id": "{ACCOUNT_ID}",
        "owner_id": "{USER_ID}",
        "method": "cb_user_auth",
        "id": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
        "reseller_id": "{RESELLER_ID}",
        "is_reseller": false,
        "account_name": "{ACCOUNT_NAME}",
        "language": "en-us",
        "apps": [{
            "id": "8bda62bf7ccf8f8acc219d5d2c515376",
            "name": "accounts",
            "api_url": "http://192.168.0.2:8000/v2/",
            "label": "Accounts Manager"
        }, {
            "id": "99d5f033f0a4176640f9bf1c4e81abed",
            "name": "numbers",
            "api_url": "http://192.168.0.2:8000/v2/",
            "label": "Number Manager"
        }, {
            "id": "0306d5162bad2c7a951b6842483f73cd",
            "name": "voip",
            "api_url": "http://192.168.0.2:8000/v2/",
            "label": "Smart PBX"
        }]
    },
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "status": "success"
}

Password Recovery

Sometimes it is necessary to recover a password. Similar to user authentication, you can supply the account realm, the account name, or a phone number associated with the account to send a password reset to the user’s email. This email will contain a link that one then click to verify identity & proceed with recovery.

Schema

Send a reset-your-password email via user credentials

Key	Description	Type	Default	Required	Support Level
account_name	The account name of the user	string(1..64)		false
account_realm	The account realm of the user	string(1..64)		false
phone_number	A phone number assigned to the user’s account	string(1..64)		false
ui_url	The UI’s root URL	string(14..2000)		true
username	The user’s username	string(1..254)		true

API request

PUT /v2/user_auth/recovery

curl -v -X PUT \
    -H "content-type: application/json" \
    -d '{"data":{"username":"API_USERNAME", "account_realm":"ACCOUNT_REALM", "ui_url": "{UI_URL}"}}' \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/user_auth/recovery

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {},
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "revision": "{REVISION}",
    "status": "success"
}

Execute link from email account recovery

Send the {RESET_ID} collected in the recovery-email.

POST /v2/user_auth/recovery

curl -v -X POST \
    -H "X-Auth-Token: {AUTH_TOKEN}" \
    -d '{"data": {"reset_id": "{RESET_ID}"}}'
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/user_auth/recovery

Responses

Success

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {},
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "revision": "{REVISION}",
    "status": "success"
}

Unknown {RESET_ID}

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {
        "user": {
            "not_found": {
                "cause": "{RESET_ID}",
                "message": "The provided reset_id did not resolve to any user"
            }
        }
    },
    "error": "500",
    "message": "invalid request",
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "status": "error"
}

Impersonate a User

You can impersonate as another user in your sub account if you’re already is logged in as an admin in your master account. This features a useful way to login as your customer to debug/test issues with the user system’s point of view.

PUT /v2/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/users/{USER_ID}/user_auth

curl -v -X PUT \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{ "action": "impersonate_user", "data": {} }' \
    http://{SERVER}:8000/v2/accounts/{ACCOUNT_ID}/users/{USER_ID}/user_auth

Responses

A standard Crossbar authentication token.

{
    "auth_token": "{AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "data": {
        "account_id": "{ACCOUNT_ID}",
        "apps": [],
        "is_reseller": true,
        "language": "en-US",
        "owner_id": "{OWNER_ID}",
        "reseller_id": "{RESELLER_ID}"
    },
    "request_id": "{REQUEST_ID}",
    "revision": "{REVISION}",
    "status": "success"
}