Hubot: hubot-auth

This is a fork that simply contains a merged PR missing from the main repo that makes hubot-auth save roles into the brain and actually persist across reboots instead of clearing them.

(hubot-archive/hubot-auth#40)

Props to the original authors Alex Williams (http://github.com/aw), alexwilliamsca and tombell and especially the author of the PR/Fix Dario Berzano (https://github.com/dberzano)

On NPM at: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hubot-auth-persistent

Assign roles to users and restrict command access in other scripts.

Installation

Add hubot-auth-persistent to your package.json file:

npm install --save hubot-auth-persistent

Add hubot-auth-persistent to your external-scripts.json:

["hubot-auth-persistent"]

Run npm install

Sample Interaction

user1>> hubot user2 has jester role
hubot>> OK, user2 has the jester role.

Sample Usage

Restricting commands

module.exports = (robot) ->
  # Command listener
  robot.respond /some command/i, (msg) ->
    role = 'some-role'
    user = robot.brain.userForName(msg.message.user.name)
    return msg.reply "#{name} does not exist" unless user?
    unless robot.auth.hasRole(user, role)
      msg.reply "Access Denied. You need role #{role} to perform this action."
      return
    # Some commandy stuff
    msg.reply 'Command done!'

Example Interaction

user2>> hubot some command
hubot>> Access Denied. You need role some-role to perform this action.
user1>> hubot user2 has some-role role
hubot>> OK, user2 has the some-role role.
user2>> hubot some command
hubot>> Command done!