How to use passport-local to authenticate in composer rest server - hyperledger-composer

Question

I want to use passport-local to authenticate user to login into composer rest server like other passport strategies ( e.g passport-github,passport-google).
So first I try to set COMPOSER_PROVIDER variable like this
"local": {
"provider": "local",
"module": "passport-local",
"usernameField": "username",
"passwordField": "password",
"authPath": "/auth/local",
"successRedirect": "/",
"failureRedirect": "/"}
Then i run the server in docker (with mongo as persisted datasource) and add some user in database collection
The question is what's next step that i need to use this passport.Because i run this command and still get response with 401 Unauthorized
curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d
'{"username":"{USER_NAME}","password":"{USER_PASSWORD}"}'
http://localhost:3000/auth/local
Is it not enough to use this passport? Does i need to start another service to locally authenticate this login (e.g. GitHub oAuth Application )?

Answer 1

It is possible to customize your composer-rest-server, based on the loopback framework, according to your requirements.
I suggest to read this tutorial from the official documentation.
https://hyperledger.github.io/composer/latest/integrating/customizing-the-rest-server

Answer 2

I wanted to do that also initially, but then I just edit the server.js file on the composer rest server for basic auth at the end.
check where your composer-rest-server is stored
npm root -g
Open where server.js is located
cd /home/ubuntu/.nvm/versions/node/v8.10.0/lib/node_modules/composer-rest-server/server
Add this to the code
const basicauth = require('basicauth-middleware');
app.use(basicauth('username', 'password!');