# Authenticate a user

## Email and password

After registering the user, you can authenticate it with its email and password. 

{% hint style="info" %}
All the communication with the server is made in https, so all the data is encrypted. 

If the authentication is correct, the api will return the access token. 
{% endhint %}

This token will be put in the **`Authorization`** header for each subsequent call to all the MBurger apis.

```swift
MBAuth.authenticateUser(withEmail: "email", password: "password", success: { accessToken in
           
}, failure: { error in

})
```

## Social

MBurger offers the possibility to authenticate a user with social networks too.

Socials currently supported:

* Google
* Facebook
* Apple

```swift
MBAuth.authenticateUser(withSocialToken: "socialToken", 
                        tokenType: Social_Token_Type, 
                        success: { accessToken in
}, failure: { error in
})
```

{% hint style="info" %}
If the user logs in with apple you need to pass to this function also the name and surname because those cannot be retrieved by the server 
{% endhint %}

## How to know if user is logged in

You can see if a user is currently authenticated with **`MBAuth.userIsLoggedIn`**.

If a user is authenticated you can retrieve its access token with **`MBAuth.authToken`** else this will return **`nil`**.

To logout the current user:

```swift
MBAuth.logoutCurrentUser({ 
}, failure: { error in
})
```

**`MBAuth`** saves the user information in the Keychain. 

{% hint style="info" %}
If you are having issues when authenticating a user with the message “Couldn’t add the Keychain Item.” turn on Keychain sharing in your app capabilities section n for your app and add “com.mumble.mburger”. This should fix it.
{% endhint %}

![Keychain settings](https://docs.mumbleideas.it/mburger/ios/images/Keychain.png)

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