To try out my solution, there are two possible methods to do so:

1. If you're using a windows or linux machine, grab the respective binary in my releases page!
2. If you're using linux machine, you can build it by reading the following steps below.

Building on Linux

Prerequisites: git, python3.X, pip

1. Clone the repo to your desired directory and enter into it
2. Run: python3 -m venv venv
3. Run: pip install --upgrade pip
4. Run: pip install -r requirements.txt --user
5. Run: pyinstaller -F --add-data "project:project" --add-data "migrations:migrations" --add-binary "project.db:." zendesksol.py
6. Your binary file can now be found in the dist/ folder!

Once the binary has been started, simply visit localhost:5555 to view the welcome page. From there you can try to login, register a new user, reset your password, or logout.

To test out the fetures, a sample database with two users have been implemented.

1. Username: admin, Password: password
2. Username: user2, Password: tesr (Note: this account is currently locked out and needs to have their password reset (use email of ZDSecSolKS@gmail.com, email password found in the config.py file))

Note that the database will be reset everytime the binary is restarted!

Implemented with flask's inbuilt render_template which automatically handles sanitization. New users must have usernames of length 3 and passwords of legnth 8 with at least 1 number, 1 letter, 1 special character with no whitespaces.

Implemented with Flask-Bcrypt, salting 15 rounds.

Implemented with flask's inbuilt logger. Creates a log file if it doesn't exist and logs information about the program, rotating once it hits a size limit of around 20MB.

Implemented with WTForms. A hidden token has been implemented on every page where user input is allowed.

Implemented with jwt. At the login page, there's a link to submit a user's email to reset their password. A reset email will be sent to that email if it belongs to that user where they can use a token to reset their password.

After a user has failed to login 5 times, they will be locked out and must reset their password to log back in.

Implemented with session from Flask. Closing the site and opening it back up will still show the logged in page if user is logged in.

Thank you!