IndieAuth is an open-standard for decentralized authentication used by millions of independent websites. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install Indieauth on Arch Linux.
Before we begin, it is always good practice to update the packages on the system by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo pacman -Syu
IndieAuth is built on top of Node.js, so we need to install it first. Install Node.js by running the following command:
sudo pacman -S nodejs npm
To install Indieauth, we will use npm, Node.js's package manager. Run the following command in the terminal:
sudo npm install --global indieauth
To ensure that Indieauth is correctly installed, run the following command in the terminal:
indieauth
This will print out the version number of the installed IndieAuth.
The Indieauth configuration file can be found at /usr/lib/node_modules/indieauth/config.json. You can edit this file to change permissions, the authentication server URL, and the client ID.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Indieauth on Arch Linux. With Indieauth set up, you can provide decentralized authentication to your website users.
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