Introduction

Authentication is a built-in feature which allows to build private access areas within your Locomotive CMS site.

Consider the following scenario: you have built a beautiful site for a law firm and now they're asking for a password-protected area where partners can download fancy Excel/PDF files. You could achieve this with session variables and a members content type. However, this solution presents some issues:

• member passwords would be stored in plain text in the Back Office which is a security problem
• you couldn't help your members to reset their forgotten password by sending instructions by email

Locomotive CMS' Authentication built-in functionality provides the following features:

• sign up / sign in / sign out actions
• email instructions action to reset password (including customisable email template page)
• reset password action
• encrypted password
• authentication views in Liquid

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Wagon authentication demo site

We built a simple Wagon site which includes all the features listed above. Click here to see the code source.