Built-in Authentication/Plug-in Authentication

[ryanleesipes]

We are going to open source Appointment, eventually. We will need some kind of authentication method - or/and the ability to plug in alternative authentication methods so that self-hosters can have an account system easily enough.

[MelissaAutumn]

We've added some initial email/password authentication when we implemented Mozilla Accounts. However it's for local development use only right now and we'll need some additional features.

Like:

• Subscriber registration flow
• Forgot password flow
• Profile editing features (e.g. display name, avatar..)
• Emails for registration, and forgot password

There's probably a bit more, but that's all I can think of for now.

[MelissaAutumn]

Reviving this ancient ticket. For password auth, a user will be created if there's no existing user in the database.

After that registration will be locked and users can be added via our basic admin panel.