diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6acf863
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+asgiref==3.5.2
+Django==4.0.6
+django-filter==22.1
+djangorestframework==3.13.1
+drfpasswordless==1.5.8
+Markdown==3.3.7
+pytz==2022.1
+sqlparse==0.4.2
diff --git a/workx_backend/settings.py b/workx_backend/settings.py
index c7f746c..e7fa41e 100644
--- a/workx_backend/settings.py
+++ b/workx_backend/settings.py
@@ -37,8 +37,20 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
     'django.contrib.staticfiles',
     'rest_framework',
     'rest_framework.authtoken',
+    'drfpasswordless'
 ]
 
+PASSWORDLESS_AUTH = {
+   'PASSWORDLESS_AUTH_TYPES': ['EMAIL']
+}
+
+PASSWORDLESS_AUTH = {
+   'PASSWORDLESS_AUTH_TYPES': ['EMAIL'],
+   'PASSWORDLESS_EMAIL_NOREPLY_ADDRESS': 'kj@webtrigon.com',
+}
+
+EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend'
+
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
@@ -52,13 +64,8 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'workx_backend.urls'
 
 REST_FRAMEWORK = {
-    # Use Django's standard `django.contrib.auth` permissions,
-    # or allow read-only access for unauthenticated users.
-    'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
-        'rest_framework.permissions.DjangoModelPermissionsOrAnonReadOnly'
-    ],
     'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': [
-        'rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication'
+        'rest_framework.authentication.TokenAuthentication'
     ]
 }
 
diff --git a/workx_backend/urls.py b/workx_backend/urls.py
index 894c93b..88168d3 100644
--- a/workx_backend/urls.py
+++ b/workx_backend/urls.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 from django.contrib import admin
 from django.urls import path, include
 from rest_framework import routers
-from workx_backend.views import UserViewSet, CustomAuthToken
-from rest_framework.authtoken import views
+from workx_backend.views import UserViewSet
 
 router = routers.DefaultRouter()
 router.register(r'users', UserViewSet)
@@ -10,6 +9,6 @@ router.register(r'users', UserViewSet)
 urlpatterns = [
     path('admin/', admin.site.urls),
     path('api/', include(router.urls)),
-    path('authenticate/', CustomAuthToken.as_view())
+    path('', include('drfpasswordless.urls')),
 ]
 
diff --git a/workx_backend/views.py b/workx_backend/views.py
index df8f50c..4526540 100644
--- a/workx_backend/views.py
+++ b/workx_backend/views.py
@@ -1,26 +1,8 @@
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
 from rest_framework import viewsets
-from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
-from rest_framework.authtoken.views import ObtainAuthToken
 from workx_backend.serializers import UserSerializer
-from rest_framework.response import Response
 
 
 class UserViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     queryset = User.objects.all()
     serializer_class = UserSerializer
-
-
-class CustomAuthToken(ObtainAuthToken):
-
-    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
-        serializer = self.serializer_class(data=request.data,
-                                           context={'request': request})
-        serializer.is_valid(raise_exception=True)
-        user = serializer.validated_data['user']
-        # token, created = Token.objects.get_or_create(user=user)
-        return Response({
-            # 'token': token.key,
-            # 'user_id': user.pk,
-            'email': user.email
-        })