I see there are a few. Which ones are maintained and easy to use? What are their pros and cons?
Update (May 14, 2010):
It turns out, the russian developer Ilya Konyukhov picked up the gauntlet after reading this and created a new auth library for CI based on DX Auth, following the recommendations and requirements below.
And the resulting Tank Auth is looking like the answer to the OP's question. I'm going to go out on a limb here and call Tank Auth the best authentication library for CodeIgniter available today. It's a rock-solid library that has all the features you need and none of the bloat you don't:
Tank Auth
Pros
Full featured Lean footprint (20 files) considering the feature set Very good documentation Simple and elegant database design (just 4 DB tables) Most features are optional and easily configured Language file support reCAPTCHA supported Hooks into CI's validation system Activation emails Login with email, username or both (configurable) Unactivated accounts auto-expire Simple yet effective error handling Uses phpass for hashing (and also hashes autologin codes in the DB) Does not use security questions Separation of user and profile data is very nice Very reasonable security model around failed login attempts (good protection against bots and DoS attacks) (Minor) Cons
Lost password codes are not hashed in DB Includes a native (poor) CAPTCHA, which is nice for those who don't want to depend on the (Google-owned) reCAPTCHA service, but it really isn't secure enough Very sparse online documentation (minor issue here, since the code is nicely documented and intuitive) Download Tank Auth here
Original answer:
I've implemented my own as well (currently about 80% done after a few weeks of work). I tried all of the others first; FreakAuth Light, DX Auth, Redux, SimpleLogin, SimpleLoginSecure, pc_user, Fresh Powered, and a few more. None of them were up to par, IMO, either they were lacking basic features, inherently INsecure, or too bloated for my taste.
Actually, I did a detailed roundup of all the authentication libraries for CodeIgniter when I was testing them out (just after New Year's). FWIW, I'll share it with you:
DX Auth
Pros
Very full featured Medium footprint (25+ files), but manages to feel quite slim Excellent documentation, although some is in slightly broken English Language file support reCAPTCHA supported Hooks into CI's validation system Activation emails Unactivated accounts auto-expire Suggests grc.com for salts (not bad for a PRNG) Banning with stored 'reason' strings Simple yet effective error handling Cons
Only lets users 'reset' a lost password (rather than letting them pick a new one upon reactivation) Homebrew pseudo-event model - good intention, but misses the mark Two password fields in the user table, bad style Uses two separate user tables (one for 'temp' users - ambiguous and redundant) Uses potentially unsafe md5 hashing Failed login attempts only stored by IP, not by username - unsafe! Autologin key not hashed in the database - practically as unsafe as storing passwords in cleartext! Role system is a complete mess: is_admin function with hard-coded role names, is_role a complete mess, check_uri_permissions is a mess, the whole permissions table is a bad idea (a URI can change and render pages unprotected; permissions should always be stored exactly where the sensitive logic is). Dealbreaker! Includes a native (poor) CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA function interface is messy FreakAuth Light
Pros
Very full featured Mostly quite well documented code Separation of user and profile data is a nice touch Hooks into CI's validation system Activation emails Language file support Actively developed Cons
Feels a bit bloated (50+ files) And yet it lacks automatic cookie login (!) Doesn't support logins with both username and email Seems to have issues with UTF-8 characters Requires a lot of autoloading (impeding performance) Badly micromanaged config file Terrible View-Controller separation, with lots of program logic in views and output hard-coded into controllers. Dealbreaker! Poor HTML code in the included views Includes substandard CAPTCHA Commented debug echoes everywhere Forces a specific folder structure Forces a specific Ajax library (can be switched, but shouldn't be there in the first place) No max limit on login attempts - VERY unsafe! Dealbreaker! Hijacks form validation Uses potentially unsafe md5 hashing pc_user
Pros
Good feature set for its tiny footprint Lightweight, no bloat (3 files) Elegant automatic cookie login Comes with optional test implementation (nice touch) Cons
Uses the old CI database syntax (less safe) Doesn't hook into CI's validation system Kinda unintuitive status (role) system (indexes upside down - impractical) Uses potentially unsafe sha1 hashing Fresh Powered
Pros
Small footprint (6 files) Cons
Lacks a lot of essential features. Dealbreaker! Everything is hard-coded. Dealbreaker! Redux / Ion Auth
According to the CodeIgniter wiki, Redux has been discontinued, but the Ion Auth fork is going strong: https://github.com/benedmunds/CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth
Ion Auth is a well featured library without it being overly heavy or under advanced. In most cases its feature set will more than cater for a project's requirements.
Pros
Lightweight and simple to integrate with CodeIgniter Supports sending emails directly from the library Well documented online and good active dev/user community Simple to implement into a project Cons
More complex DB schema than some others Documentation lacks detail in some areas SimpleLoginSecure
Pros
Tiny footprint (4 files) Minimalistic, absolutely no bloat Uses phpass for hashing (excellent) Cons
Only login, logout, create and delete Lacks a lot of essential features. Dealbreaker! More of a starting point than a library
Don't get me wrong: I don't mean to disrespect any of the above libraries; I am very impressed with what their developers have accomplished and how far each of them have come, and I'm not above reusing some of their code to build my own. What I'm saying is, sometimes in these projects, the focus shifts from the essential 'need-to-haves' (such as hard security practices) over to softer 'nice-to-haves', and that's what I hope to remedy.
Therefore: back to basics.
Authentication for CodeIgniter done right
Here's my MINIMAL required list of features from an authentication library. It also happens to be a subset of my own library's feature list ;)
Tiny footprint with optional test implementation Full documentation No autoloading required. Just-in-time loading of libraries for performance Language file support; no hard-coded strings reCAPTCHA supported but optional Recommended TRUE random salt generation (eg using random.org or random.irb.hr) Optional add-ons to support 3rd party login (OpenID, Facebook Connect, Google Account, etc.) Login using either username or email Separation of user and profile data Emails for activation and lost passwords Automatic cookie login feature Configurable phpass for hashing (properly salted of course!) Hashing of passwords Hashing of autologin codes Hashing of lost password codes Hooks into CI's validation system NO security questions! Enforced strong password policy server-side, with optional client-side (Javascript) validator Enforced maximum number of failed login attempts with BEST PRACTICES countermeasures against both dictionary and DoS attacks! All database access done through prepared (bound) statements! Note: those last few points are not super-high-security overkill that you don't need for your web application. If an authentication library doesn't meet these security standards 100%, DO NOT USE IT!
Recent high-profile examples of irresponsible coders who left them out of their software: #17 is how Sarah Palin's AOL email was hacked during the Presidential campaign; a nasty combination of #18 and #19 were the culprit recently when the Twitter accounts of Britney Spears, Barack Obama, Fox News and others were hacked; and #20 alone is how Chinese hackers managed to steal 9 million items of personal information from more than 70.000 Korean web sites in one automated hack in 2008.
These attacks are not brain surgery. If you leave your back doors wide open, you shouldn't delude yourself into a false sense of security by bolting the front. Moreover, if you're serious enough about coding to choose a best-practices framework like CodeIgniter, you owe it to yourself to at least get the most basic security measures done right.
<rant>
Basically, here's how it is: I don't care if an auth library offers a bunch of features, advanced role management, PHP4 compatibility, pretty CAPTCHA fonts, country tables, complete admin panels, bells and whistles -- if the library actually makes my site less secure by not following best practices. It's an authentication package; it needs to do ONE thing right: Authentication. If it fails to do that, it's actually doing more harm than good.
</rant>
/Jens Roland
Note that the "comprehensive listing" by Jens Roland doesn't include user roles. If you're interested in assigning different user roles (like admin/user or admin/editor/user), these libraries allow it:
Ion_Auth (rewrite of Redux) Redux Backend Pro Tank_Auth (#1 above in Jens's list) doesn't have user roles. I realize it's not exactly part of authentication, but since
authentication and role management are both handled upon page load Both involve security The same table/model can be used for both. Both can be set up to load in the controller constructor (or even autoload) It makes a LOT of sense to have one library to handle both, if you need it. I'm switching to Ion_Auth from Tank_Auth because of this.
Ion_auth! Looks very promising and small footprint! I like..
http://github.com/benedmunds/CodeIgniter-Ion-Auth
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