Flask-User

Customizable User Authentication & Management

So, you're writing a Flask web application and would like to authenticate your users.

You start with a simple Login page, but soon enough you'll need to handle:

• Registrations and Email Confirmations
• Change Usernames, Change Passwords, and Forgotten Passwords

And wouldn't it be nice to also offer:

• Added security
• Increased reliability
• Role-based Authorization
• Internationalization
• Support for multiple emails per user

Flask-User offers these features and more.

Secure and Reliable

• Secure -- Built on top of widely deployed Passlib, PyCrypto, ItsDangerous.
• Reliable -- Code coverage of over 95%
• Available -- Tested on Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3-3.6
• Well documented

Fully customizable, yet Ready to use

• Largely configurable -- Through configuration settings
• Fully customizable -- Through customizable functions and email templates
• Ready to use -- Through sensible defaults
• Supports SQL Databases and MongoDB Databases
• Event hooking -- Through signals

Comes with translations

Chinese, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish

Requirements

Flask-User requires the following Python packages:

• cryptography 2.0+
• Flask 0.9+
• Flask-Login 0.3+
• Flask-WTF 0.9+
• passlib 1.6+

Optionally:

• blinker 1.3+ -- for Event Notification
• Flask-Babel 0.9+ -- for translations
• Flask-Mail 0.9+ -- for sending mail with SMTP
• Flask-MongoAlchemy 0.7+ -- for MongoAlchemy applications
• Flask-Sendmail -- for sending mail with sendmail
• Flask-SQLAlchemy 1.0+ -- for SQLAlchemy applications
• py-bcript 0.4+ -- for fast bcrypt encryption
• speaklater 1.3+ -- for translations

Alternatives

• Flask-Login
• Flask-Security