Source: passportjs Section: web Priority: extra Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: David Paleino , Jérémy Lal Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 8~), nodejs Standards-Version: 3.9.4 Homepage: http://passportjs.org Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-javascript/passportjs.git Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-javascript/passportjs.git Package: node-passport Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} , nodejs Description: simple, unobtrusive authentication system for Node.js Passport is an authentication middleware for Node.js. Extremely flexible and modular, Passport can be unobtrusively dropped in to any Connect/Express-based web application. . It provides a comprehensive set of authentication systems: using a username and password, social networks credentials, OpenID, and more. . This package only provides the general framework and the "session" authorization strategy: other systems are packaged separately, please install the ones you need. . Node.js is an event-based server-side javascript engine.