Flask-Security

Flask-Security allows you to quickly add common security mechanisms to your Flask application. They include:

1. Session based authentication
2. Role management
3. Password encryption
4. Basic HTTP authentication
5. Token based authentication
6. Token based account activation (optional)
7. Token based password recovery / resetting (optional)
8. User registration (optional)
9. Login tracking (optional)
10. JSON/Ajax Support

Many of these features are made possible by integrating various Flask extensions and libraries. They include:

1. Flask-Login
2. Flask-Mail
3. Flask-Principal
4. Flask-Script
5. Flask-WTF
6. itsdangerous
7. passlib

Additionally, it assumes you’ll be using a common library for your database connections and model definitions. Flask-Security supports the following Flask extensions out of the box for data persistence:

1. Flask-SQLAlchemy
2. Flask-MongoEngine
3. Flask-Peewee

Contents

• Features
• Configuration
• Quick Start
• Basic SQLAlchemy Application
• Basic MongoEngine Application
• Basic Peewee Application
• Mail Configuration
• Models
• Customizing Views
• API
• Flask-Security Changelog
• Development Lead
• Patches and Suggestions