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Authentication made easy.

Leverage Directus' user system or your own SSO and easily build user accounts into your application with robust permissions.

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Ready-to-implement user accounts and a granular permissions system.

Connect directly to any database and get an intuitive GUI for managing user accounts and permissions.

RBAC and SSO

Powerful role-based access controls.

Our robust roles & permissions system allows filter rules, custom validation, field-level permissions, IP allow-lists, and configurable public access.

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Native and token-based authentication

Authenticate with API using email/password, or token-based authentication.

Invite users or create them directly

Invite users to your project or directly create them from your instance.

Free and flexible SSO

Built-in JWT auth supports SSO via OAuth, SAML, OpenID, and LDAP with 2FA support.

const user = await client.request(
	createUser({ 
		email: 'user@example.com',
		password: 'hunter2'
	})
);
const user = await client.login(email, password);
API-Powered Auth

Authenticate via our API.

Create, update and read user data, and login, logout, and refresh access tokens all with Directus' simple API.

const { subscription } = await client.subscribe('messages');

for await (const item of subscription) {
	console.log('subscription', { item });
}
 
/*
{
	"type": "subscription",
	"event": "create",
	"data": [{
		"id": 1,
		"text": "Hello World"
	}]
}
*/
const { subscription } = await client.subscribe('messages');

for await (const item of subscription) {
	console.log('subscription', { item });
}

/*
{
	"type": "subscription",
	"status": "error",
	"error": {
		"code": "FORBIDDEN",
		"message": "You don't have permission to access this."
	}
}
*/
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Realtime that respects your access.

Directus Realtime supports multiple authentication schemes, and fully respects role-based access control.

If the team scales from 100 to 300 people, it's not a problem at all. Whereas setting up new permissions used to take hours, with Directus, it’s a two-minute change.

Wayne Eldridge

Wayne Eldridge

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Martijn Boland

Martijn Boland

Co-Founder, Taiga

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Get granular with your permissions 🔐

Step into a world of seamless and secure authentication with Directus Auth. Protect your assets and provide users a friction-less login experience.

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