# HG changeset patch # User Søren Løvborg # Date 2017-01-02 20:35:25 # Node ID 245b4e3abf399fb6770afb9b4916baab51bff15c # Parent ee6b7e9f34e691b02d3c5d787776d616d1714ff0 auth: add AuthUser.is_anonymous, along with some exposition This reveals the name of the NotAnonymous decorator to be misleading, an unfortunate detail only documented here, but which must be properly resolved in a later changeset. Note that NotAnonymous behaves as advertised as long as it is used together with LoginRequired, which is always the case in the current code, so there's no actual security issue here, the code is just weird, hard to read and fragile. --- Some thoughts on cleaning this up in a future changeset: As it turns out, every controller (except the login page!) should be LoginRequired decorated (since it doesn't actually block anonymous users, as long as anonymous access is enabled in the Kallithea config). Thus the most obvious solution would be to move the LoginRequired functionality into BaseController (with an override for LoginController), and delete the decorator entirely. However, LoginRequired does one other thing: it carries information about whether API access is enabled for individual controller methods ("@LoginRequired(api_key=True)"), and also performs the check for this, something which is not easily moved into the base controller class, since the base controller doesn't know which method is about to be called. Possibly that can be determined by poking Pylons, but such code is likely to break with the upcoming TurboGears 2 move. Thus such cleanup is probably better revisited after the switch to TG2. diff --git a/kallithea/lib/auth.py b/kallithea/lib/auth.py --- a/kallithea/lib/auth.py +++ b/kallithea/lib/auth.py @@ -459,6 +459,18 @@ class AuthUser(object): so, set `is_authenticated` to True. However, `AuthUser` does refuse to load a user that is not `active`. + + Note that Kallithea distinguishes between the default user (an actual + user in the database with username "default") and "no user" (no actual + User object, AuthUser filled with blank values and username "None"). + + If the default user is active, that will always be used instead of + "no user". On the other hand, if the default user is disabled (and + there is no login information), we instead get "no user"; this should + only happen on the login page (as all other requests are redirected). + + `is_default_user` specifically checks if the AuthUser is the user named + "default". Use `is_anonymous` to check for both "default" and "no user". """ def __init__(self, user_id=None, dbuser=None, @@ -468,7 +480,7 @@ class AuthUser(object): self.is_external_auth = is_external_auth user_model = UserModel() - self.anonymous_user = User.get_default_user(cache=True) + self._default_user = User.get_default_user(cache=True) # These attributes will be overridden by fill_data, below, unless the # requested user cannot be found and the default anonymous user is @@ -494,9 +506,10 @@ class AuthUser(object): # If user cannot be found, try falling back to anonymous. if not is_user_loaded: - is_user_loaded = self._fill_data(self.anonymous_user) + is_user_loaded = self._fill_data(self._default_user) - self.is_default_user = (self.user_id == self.anonymous_user.user_id) + self.is_default_user = (self.user_id == self._default_user.user_id) + self.is_anonymous = not is_user_loaded or self.is_default_user if not self.username: self.username = 'None' @@ -702,12 +715,12 @@ def _redirect_to_login(message=None): class LoginRequired(object): - """ - Must be logged in to execute this function else - redirect to login page + """Client must be logged in as a valid User (but the "default" user, + if enabled, is considered valid), or we'll redirect to the login page. - :param api_access: if enabled this checks only for valid auth token - and grants access based on valid token + Also checks that IP address is allowed, and if using API key instead + of regular cookie authentication, checks that API key access is allowed + (based on `api_access` parameter and the API view whitelist). """ def __init__(self, api_access=False): @@ -763,9 +776,9 @@ class LoginRequired(object): raise _redirect_to_login() class NotAnonymous(object): - """ - Must be logged in to execute this function else - redirect to login page""" + """Ensures that client is not logged in as the "default" user, and + redirects to the login page otherwise. Must be used together with + LoginRequired.""" def __call__(self, func): return decorator(self.__wrapper, func)