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Authentication Providers

Redwood keeps identities for users in the database, but is flexible on how you authenticate those users.

  • Local - A basic username/password authentication provider with optional email verification
  • Steam - Users automatically authenticate when they launch the game through Steam

How to specify which provider is used?​

You can enable one or more authentication providers to be allowed to be used, which is helpful for cross-platform games.

The config variable auth.allowed-providers takes an array of string enums, which can be local or steam. You can see the default defined as just local in RedwoodBackend/config/node/default/auth.yaml.

You can override this variable yourself in your own config environment.