what if the session info (token and password) is stolen?

[planflux]

How does superlogin deal with this type of security issues? I believe it has been handled, but I don't seen to find it described anywhere.

[peteruithoven]

It's possible for users to remove all their (other) sessions. It's also valid for a limited time (although this is extended when used). A session isn't translatable to the user's actual password, so when it's expired or removed by the user it's useless. Does that make it "handled"? I think Superlogin has implemented this in common way, but I have to admit I've also had a hard time finding resources on this, especially when you don't have a background in this.

[micky2be]

Yes, the use of the token is basic oauth. The implementation could be done a little better though, with a token that change and a refresh_token logic but the actual implementation is secure enough.

Also if you use ssl I don't see how the token and password could be stolen. I mean, login and password could be stolen too.

[planflux]

thank you @micky2be and @peteruithoven. I am still having a difficulty to access couchDB using the token:password. I am running into problems when using token/password pair to sync the pouchdb/couchDB. I am getting 500 error messages. It appears that I get those only if I sign in fresh from a browser with cache cleaned, meaning pouchdb will try to access the All_doc of user "smith"'s personal DB "sldemo_todos$smith". Since $smith is not an admin user, the couch server returns 500 error.

My code is as follows: ''' @Injectable() export class PouchDataProvider { db: any; data: any;

constructor() {

}

setRemoteDb(url){ this.db = new PouchDB('todos2');

  let options = {
    live: true,
    retry: true
  };

 this.db.sync(url, options).on('error', console.log.bind(console));

}

The setRemoteDB is called when a user login is successful:

superlogin.login(credentials) .then(res=> { self.navCtrl.setRoot(TabsPage); var remoteDbUrl = superlogin.getDbUrl('todos'); this.pouchdataService.setRemoteDb(remoteDbUrl); console.log(remoteDbUrl);
//this remoteDbUrl looks like this: //'http://CoUzadUIQfeRJ_b5KSqaog:xtSzW_6sTBmosxxxKpeSKg@localhost:5984/sldemo_todos$smith'

    }, function (err) {
      self.authPending = false;
      if(err) {
        self.loginError = err.message;
      } else {
        self.loginError = 'Could not connect to the server.';
      }
    });

'''