fastapi-users/docs/configuration/authentication/index.md

Authentication

FastAPI Users allows you to plug in several authentication methods.

How it works?

You can have several authentication methods, e.g. a cookie authentication for browser-based queries and a JWT token authentication for pure API queries.

When checking authentication, each method is run one after the other. The first method yielding a user wins. If no method yields a user, an HTTPException is raised.

Each defined method will generate a /login/{name} route where name is defined on the authentication method object.

Each defined method will generate a /logout/{name} route where name is defined on the authentication method object.

Provided methods

• JWT authentication
• Cookie authentication