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# returning a yes/no response.
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# Has a plugin interface for authentication modules.
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# An authentication module is a Python module with an "auth" function,
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# which accepts 3 positional arguments.
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# plugin_module.auth(dbconn, login, password, user)
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# An authentication module is a callable object which accepts 3 positional
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# plugin_auth_func(dbconn, login, password, user)
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# dbconn is an open connection to the IVLE database.
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# login and password are required strings, password is cleartext.
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# user is a User object or None.
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# Raising an AuthError implies a hard failure, with an appropriate error
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# message. No more auth will be done.
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from autherror import AuthError
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class AuthError(Exception):
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def __init__(self, message="Invalid username or password."):
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self.message = message
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self.args = (message,)
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def authenticate(login, password):
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"""Determines whether a particular login/password combination is
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# (This should not spawn a DB connection on each page reload, only when
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# there is no session object to begin with).
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dbconn = common.db.DB()
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user = dbconn.get_user(login)
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# If our attempt to get the named user from the db fails,
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# then set user to None.
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# We may still auth (eg. by pulling details from elsewhere and writing
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for modname, m in auth_modules:
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user = dbconn.get_user(login)
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for m in auth_modules:
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# May raise an AuthError - allow to propagate
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auth_result = m(dbconn, login, password, user)
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"Bad authentication module %s (changed user)"
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"Bad authentication module (changed user)")
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dbconn.create_user(auth_result)
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"Bad authentication module %s (bad return type)"
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# The login doesn't exist. Therefore return None so we can try other
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# means of authentication.
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# Allow imports to get files from this directory.
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# Get the directory that this module (authenticate) is in
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authpath = os.path.split(sys.modules[__name__].__file__)[0]
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sys.path.append(authpath)
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# Create a global variable "auth_modules", a list of (name, function object)s.
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# This list consists of simple_db_auth, plus the "auth" functions of all the
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# plugin auth modules.
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auth_modules = [("simple_db_auth", simple_db_auth)]
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for modname in conf.auth_modules.split(','):
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mod = __import__(modname)
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def ldap_auth(dbconn, login, password, user):
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A plugin auth function, as described above.
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This one authenticates against an LDAP server.
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l = ldap.initialize(conf.ldap_url)
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l.simple_bind_s(conf.ldap_format_string % login, password)
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# List of auth plugin modules, in the order to try them