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# Auth via Auth0
`auth0.zig` replaces the local email+password auth with
[Auth0](https://auth0.com): the app stops issuing tokens and instead verifies
Auth0 access tokens (RS256) against your tenant's JWKS — signature, `exp`,
`nbf`, issuer and audience — using only the standard library.
## Setup
1. In the Auth0 dashboard create an API (Applications → APIs); its identifier
is your audience. Your tenant domain (e.g. `your-tenant.us.auth0.com`) is
the issuer host.
2. Copy `auth0.zig` into `src/` and delete `src/jwt.zig`.
3. `src/auth.zig` shrinks to `requireAuth` (drop `register`, `login`,
`normalizeEmail` and the argon2/jwt imports):
```zig
pub fn requireAuth(app: *App, arena: Allocator, req: *http.Server.Request) ![]const u8 {
const token = web.bearerToken(req) orelse return error.Unauthorized;
return app.verifier.verify(arena, token) catch error.Unauthorized;
}
```
4. In `src/main.zig`, remove the `/auth/register` and `/auth/login` routes,
add `const auth0 = @import("auth0.zig");`, replace the `auth_secret` field
of `App` with `verifier: *auth0.Verifier`, and replace the `AUTH_SECRET`
lookup in `main` with:
```zig
const domain = env.get("AUTH0_DOMAIN") orelse
std.process.fatal("AUTH0_DOMAIN is required", .{});
const audience = env.get("AUTH0_AUDIENCE") orelse
std.process.fatal("AUTH0_AUDIENCE is required", .{});
var verifier = try auth0.Verifier.init(gpa, io, domain, audience);
defer verifier.deinit();
```
and set `.verifier = &verifier` where `app` is built.
5. Auth0 user ids are strings (`auth0|...`), not bigints. In `src/db.zig`,
make `author_id` a `[]const u8` in `Post` and in `createPost`, read it with
`try arena.dupe(u8, try row.get([]const u8, 5))` in `postRow`, and delete
`User`, `createUser` and `getUserByEmail`. In `src/posts.zig`,
`findOwnPost` takes `user_id: []const u8` and compares with
`std.mem.eql(u8, post.author_id, user_id)`.
6. In `schema.sql`, delete the `users` table and change the column to
`author_id text not null` (`create table if not exists` won't alter an
existing table, so start from an empty database).
7. Set `AUTH0_DOMAIN=your-tenant.us.auth0.com` and
`AUTH0_AUDIENCE=https://api.example.com` instead of `AUTH_SECRET`.
Clients obtain access tokens through one of Auth0's flows (Authorization Code
+ PKCE for SPAs; Client Credentials for a quick server-side test) and send
them as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Request the token with your API's
audience, or it is rejected.
## Notes
- The JWKS is fetched over HTTPS with `std.http.Client`, which needs the
system CA bundle — the distroless runtime image ships one.
- Keys are cached in memory. A token with an unknown `kid` triggers a refetch
(at most once a minute), so key rotations need no restart.