Hi Matti,

thank you very much! That was all I needed to know! 

Regards 

Martin 
> Am 09.03.2016 um 21:17 schrieb Matti Eerola <[email protected]>:
> 
> Hi
> 
>> 1. "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN_HERE“, what is „Bearer“ ? Is it the user 
>> name? Or just a constant name, which helps the plugin to work?
> 
> It's a constant name that is defined in OAuth 2.0 RFC: 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750
> I don't know why it's also used with JWT. You can read more about how JWT is 
> usually sent to server from here:
> https://jwt.io/introduction/#how-do-json-web-tokens-work-
> 
>> 2. What does the „username_claim“ configuration parameter do? There are to 
>> options mentioned, „name“ and „sub“, but what does these options do?
> 
> The couch_wt_auth plugin creates a user context for the CouchDB. The user 
> context is created with a username and list of roles. The configuration 
> parameters 'username_claim' and 'roles_claim' specify what JWT claim/property 
> is mapped to username and roles. For example JWT could contain this payload:
> {
>  "sub": "1234567890",
>  "name": "John Doe",
>  "roles": ["_admin", "dev"],
>  "admin": true
> }
> When couch_wt_auth is configured with username_claim=sub (sub is the default 
> value) then CouchDB user context username is "1234567890". If couch_wt_auth 
> is configured with username_claim=name then CouchDB user context username is 
> "John Doe". More information about different JWT claims: 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519#section-4.1
> 
> I hope this helps. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matti Eerola
> 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 08:27:22 +0100
> Martin Rudolph <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> we like to use couch_wt_auth for authentication, but before we’d like to use 
>> it some questions came up on how everything works. I hope somebody could 
>> answer these questions here. 
>> 
>> 1. "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN_HERE“, what is „Bearer“ ? Is it the user 
>> name? Or just a constant name, which helps the plugin to work?
>> 2. What does the „username_claim“ configuration parameter do? There are to 
>> options mentioned, „name“ and „sub“, but what does these options do?
>> 
>> I hope someone could help to understand this plugin better, so we are able 
>> to use it! 
>> 
>> Regards 
>> 
>> Martin
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matti Eerola <[email protected]>

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