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Email password reset

Plugin allows to reset password for admin users who forgot their password by sending email with reset link signed with secured JWT token.

⚠️ if users created manually in backoffice, ensuring that email is valid is responsibility of the admin which might be a security risk (if email is mistyped then, person who owns mistyped email can reset password and get access)

⚠️ If user with email does not exist, plugin will still show to user success message to prevent email enumeration.

Installation:

npm install @adminforth/email-password-reset

Import plugin:

import EmailResetPasswordPlugin from '@adminforth/email-password-reset';

SES

To Setup SES, you need to have an AWS account and SES service enabled. You can follow the steps below to setup SES.

  1. Go to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon SES console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ses/.

  2. Make sure you are in the correct region. You can change the region from the top right corner. For example, if you are in the us-east-1 region, you can see the region name US East (N. Virginia) in the top right corner.

  3. Add your email address (any email), and verify it.

  4. Add some domain you own and verify it by creating DNS records which AWS suggests. This will be used as the domain for sending emails. e.g. if you want to send from no-reply@devforth.io you need to verify devforth.io.

Add plugin to user resource:

...
plugins: [
...
new EmailResetPasswordPlugin({
emailProvider: 'AWS_SES',
// field in user resource which contains email
emailField: 'email',

// field in user resource which contains password constrains. Should be virtual field
passwordField: 'password',

// domain part should be verified in SES
sendFrom: 'no-reply@devforth.io',

providerOptions: {
AWS_SES: {
// region where SES is setup
region: 'eu-central-1',
accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID as string,
secretAccessKey: process.env.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY as string,
}
}

}),
]

Make sure to to place your AWS credentials in .env file/environment.

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=your-access-key
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=your-secret-key