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+const { AbstractUserDatabase } = require('../interfaces');
+const { Util } = require('../../util');
+
+const session = require('express-session');
+const MongoStore = require('connect-mongo');
+const Strategy = require('@navy.gif/passport-discord');
+const Passport = require('passport');
+
+/**
+ * Takes care of sessions and authentication
+ *
+ * @class Authenticator
+ */
+class Authenticator {
+
+    /**
+     * Creates an instance of Authenticator.
+     * @param {Object} express
+     * @param {AbstractUserDatabase} users
+     * @param {Object} sessionOptions {
+     *         mongo,
+     *         cookie: {
+     *             maxAge = 0.5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000,
+     *             secure = false
+     *         },
+     *         secret
+     *     }
+     * @memberof Authenticator
+     */
+    constructor (server, express, users, {
+        mongo, secret, discordID, discordSecret, callbackURL, discordScope, discordVersion,
+        cookie = { }
+    }) {
+        
+        if (!(users instanceof AbstractUserDatabase)) Util.fatal(new Error(`Expecting user database to be an instance inheriting AbstractUserDatabase`));
+        this.userdb = users;
+
+        if (!mongo) Util.fatal(new Error('Missing mongo client for '));
+
+        this.logger = server.createLogger(this);
+        
+        cookie = { maxAge: 0.5 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000, secure: false, ...cookie };
+        cookie.secure = cookie.secure && process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'development';
+        express.use(session({
+            cookie,
+            store: MongoStore.create({ client: mongo, dbName: 'sessions' }),
+            secret,
+            resave: false,
+            saveUninitialized: false
+        }));
+
+        express.use(Passport.initialize());
+        express.use(Passport.session());
+
+        Passport.serializeUser((user, callback) => {
+            callback(null, user.id);
+        });
+
+        Passport.deserializeUser(async (id, callback) => {
+            const user = await this.userdb.fetchUser(id);
+            callback(null, user);
+        });
+
+        Passport.use(new Strategy({
+            clientID: discordID, clientSecret: discordSecret, callbackURL, scope: discordScope, version: discordVersion
+        }, async (accessToken, refreshToken, profile, callback) => {
+            this.logger.info(`${profile.username} (${profile.id}) is logging in.`);
+            const user = await this.userdb.userFromDiscord(profile);
+            callback(null, user);
+        }));
+
+    }
+
+    async authenticate (req, res, next) {
+        
+        if (this._authenticate(req, res)) return next();
+        
+    }
+
+    async _authenticate (req, res) {
+        
+        if (req.isAuthenticated()) return true;
+
+        // Sometimes the authorisation key automatically has a token type prepended to the header value, 
+        // we don't care about that, we just want the key, which will always be the last element
+        const authHeader = req.get('Authorization') || req.get('Authorisation');
+        const segments = authHeader.split(' ');
+        const key = segments[segments.length - 1];
+
+        const user = await this.userdb.matchToken(key);
+        if (user) req.user = user;
+        else {
+            res.status(401).send('Unknown identity'); 
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return true;
+
+    }
+    
+    /**
+     * Authorisation implicitly checks for authentication
+     *
+     * @param {*} permission
+     * @return {*} 
+     * @memberof Authenticator
+     */
+    createAuthoriser (permission) {
+        
+        const func = (req, res, next) => {
+            const { user } = req;
+            if (!this._authenticate(req, res)) return;
+            if (user.hasPermission(permission)) return next();
+            return res.status(403).send('Access denied');
+        };
+
+        return func;
+
+    }
+
+}
+
+module.exports = Authenticator;
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diff --git a/src/server/middleware/index.js b/src/server/middleware/index.js
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+module.exports = {
+    Authenticator: require('./Authenticator')
+};
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