Drop in service for account management, authentication, identity?
- by Mike Repass
I'm building an Android app and associated set of web services for uploading/downloading data. I need a basic (no frills) solution for account management (register, login, logout, verify credentials/token).
What open source / third party solutions exist for this scenario?
I need:
create a new account db based on a salt
simple web service to create a new account
simple web service to authenticate supplied credentials and return some sort of token
That's it, I can get by without 'fancy' email activation or password reset for the time being.
Are there off-the-shelf components for this? Should I just use a 'blank' django or rails app to get this done? Seems crazy for everyone to be doing CREATE TABLE user_accounts ...
Thoughts?
Thank you.