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<p>To start using identity management in your Actix Web application you must register
<ahref="struct.IdentityMiddleware.html"title="IdentityMiddleware"><code>IdentityMiddleware</code></a> and <code>SessionMiddleware</code> as middleware on your <code>App</code>:</p>
<spanclass="comment">// Your request handlers [...]</span>
})
}</code></pre></div>
<p>User identities can be created, accessed and destroyed using the <ahref="struct.Identity.html"title="Identity"><code>Identity</code></a> extractor in your
<p>By default, <code>actix-identity</code> does not automatically log out users. You can change this behaviour
by customising the configuration for <ahref="struct.IdentityMiddleware.html"title="IdentityMiddleware"><code>IdentityMiddleware</code></a> via <ahref="struct.IdentityMiddleware.html#method.builder"title="IdentityMiddleware::builder"><code>IdentityMiddleware::builder</code></a>.</p>
<p>In particular, you can automatically log out users who:</p>
<ul>
<li>have been inactive for a while (see <ahref="config/struct.IdentityMiddlewareBuilder.html#method.visit_deadline"><code>IdentityMiddlewareBuilder::visit_deadline</code></a>;</li>
<li>logged in too long ago (see <ahref="config/struct.IdentityMiddlewareBuilder.html#method.login_deadline"><code>IdentityMiddlewareBuilder::login_deadline</code></a>).</li>
<divclass="item-table"><divclass="item-row"><divclass="item-left module-item"><aclass="mod"href="config/index.html"title="actix_identity::config mod">config</a></div><divclass="item-right docblock-short"><p>Configuration options to tune the behaviour of <ahref="struct.IdentityMiddleware.html"title="IdentityMiddleware"><code>IdentityMiddleware</code></a>.</p>
<divclass="item-table"><divclass="item-row"><divclass="item-left module-item"><aclass="struct"href="struct.Identity.html"title="actix_identity::Identity struct">Identity</a></div><divclass="item-right docblock-short"><p>A verified user identity. It can be used as a request extractor.</p>
<divclass="item-table"><divclass="item-row"><divclass="item-left module-item"><aclass="trait"href="trait.IdentityExt.html"title="actix_identity::IdentityExt trait">IdentityExt</a></div><divclass="item-right docblock-short"><p>Helper trait to retrieve an <ahref="struct.Identity.html"title="Identity"><code>Identity</code></a> instance from various <code>actix-web</code>’s types.</p>
