email-and-password-best-practices

To implement secure email verification and password reset flows, you configure time-bound tokens sent via email handlers. This ensures valid user emails and enables safe credential recovery for web applications.

For authentication in a serverless backend, the best way to hash passwords is using customizable hashing hooks. This allows you to apply specific hashing strategies and optionally revoke sessions after sensitive credential changes.

Yes, token lifetimes for password reset emails are fully configurable. The authentication setup supports customizable token expiration durations to enforce time-bound security for credential recovery operations.

Yes, Better Auth supports optional session revocation after sensitive changes like a password reset. This feature secures user accounts by invalidating existing sessions on both serverless and traditional backends.

To set up email and password login with Better Auth, you enable the email/password module, configure verification and reset handlers, then execute database migrations using the provided CLI.