Ionic/Phonegap/Cordova app with your own OAuth2 server

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Hello,
as my application is almost finished, I need to add an authentification layer to it.
I would like the implement OAuth2 to do so, but as my users are intern to my company, I can’t use a third party like facebook or google to do the authentification, I need to set up my own OAuth2 server. With this kind of application, a “public” one, as all the source code is easily accessible, the only grant I can use with OAuth2 is the Implicit grant, designed for this purpose.

Does anyone had to implement a system like that (which appears to be pretty common) ?
Is OAuth2 overkill for just one API, only related to my mobile app ? If yes, what are the alternatives ? (I exclude basic auth, I don’t want to send my users credentials with each requests, even with https enabled)

Thanks for your help.

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Hmm, I’ve never messed with OAuth authentication. But this article seems like a good walkthrough for developing your own OAuth server

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Thanks for the reply !
I think I’ll do it as explained in this answer : http://stackoverflow.com/a/18392908

It seems to be the best approach to my use case.

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Best of luck to you :smile: