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Admin portal - Add user authentication #53

Open joeflack4 opened 6 years ago

joeflack4 commented 6 years ago

Description

A user should be able to log in / out of the admin portal, simply for security purposes.

Possible solutions

Authentication as a service

For example, Auth0 is a free service that handles user authentication.

Flask-User

Flask-Login

A simple static password implementation

Rather than having users with passwords, we can simply have a static password that everyone can share. A username won't even be necessary.

From James:

for let's pull from the environment so that we can set the password in heroku backend