/admin login now issues a user-specific key for future calls (rather than providing the system-wide API key or passing the password on each request)

management/auth.py

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import base64, os, os.path
+import base64, os, os.path, hmac
 
 from flask import make_response
 
@@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ class KeyAuthService:
 	def authenticate(self, request, env):
 		"""Test if the client key passed in HTTP Authorization header matches the service key
 		or if the or username/password passed in the header matches an administrator user.
-		Returns a list of user privileges (e.g. [] or ['admin']) raise a ValueError on
+		Returns a tuple of the user's email address and list of user privileges (e.g.
-		login failure."""
+		('my@email', []) or ('my@email', ['admin']); raises a ValueError on login failure.
+		If the user used an API key, the user's email is returned as None."""
 
 		def decode(s):
 			return base64.b64decode(s.encode('ascii')).decode('ascii')
@@ -72,11 +73,11 @@ class KeyAuthService:
 			raise ValueError("Authorization header invalid.")
 		elif username == self.key:
 			# The user passed the API key which grants administrative privs.
-			return ["admin"]
+			return (None, ["admin"])
 		else:
-			# The user is trying to log in with a username and password.
+			# The user is trying to log in with a username and user-specific
-			# Raises or returns privs.
+			# API key or password. Raises or returns privs.
-			return self.get_user_credentials(username, password, env)
+			return (username, self.get_user_credentials(username, password, env))
 
 	def get_user_credentials(self, email, pw, env):
 		# Validate a user's credentials. On success returns a list of
@@ -87,6 +88,11 @@ class KeyAuthService:
 		if email == "" or pw == "":
 			raise ValueError("Enter an email address and password.")
 
+		# The password might be a user-specific API key.
+		if hmac.compare_digest(self.create_user_key(email), pw):
+			# OK.
+			pass
+		else:
 			# Get the hashed password of the user. Raise a ValueError if the
 			# email address does not correspond to a user.
 			pw_hash = get_mail_password(email, env)
@@ -115,6 +121,9 @@ class KeyAuthService:
 		# Return a list of privileges.
 		return privs
 
+	def create_user_key(self, email):
+		return hmac.new(self.key.encode('ascii'), b"AUTH:" + email.encode("utf8"), digestmod="sha1").hexdigest()
+
 	def _generate_key(self):
 		raw_key = os.urandom(32)
 		return base64.b64encode(raw_key).decode('ascii')

management/daemon.py

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ def authorized_personnel_only(viewfunc):
 		# Authenticate the passed credentials, which is either the API key or a username:password pair.
 		error = None
 		try:
-			privs = auth_service.authenticate(request, env)
+			email, privs = auth_service.authenticate(request, env)
 		except ValueError as e:
 			# Authentication failed.
 			privs = []
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def index():
 def me():
 	# Is the caller authorized?
 	try:
-		privs = auth_service.authenticate(request, env)
+		email, privs = auth_service.authenticate(request, env)
 	except ValueError as e:
 		return json_response({
 			"status": "invalid",
@@ -104,12 +104,13 @@ def me():
 
 	resp = {
 		"status": "ok",
+		"email": email,
 		"privileges": privs,
 	}
 
-	# Is authorized as admin?
+	# Is authorized as admin? Return an API key for future use.
 	if "admin" in privs:
-		resp["api_key"] = auth_service.key
+		resp["api_key"] = auth_service.create_user_key(email)
 
 	# Return.
 	return json_response(resp)

management/templates/login.html

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function do_login() {
       // Login succeeded.
 
       // Save the new credentials.
-      api_credentials = [response.api_key, ""];
+      api_credentials = [response.email, response.api_key];
 
       // Try to wipe the username/password information.
       $('#loginEmail').val('');