Logging out ends every login session (closes #256)
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A login session was a cookie with nothing kept on the server, so
logging out removed it from one browser and a copy kept working for 30
days. The session manager now keeps a random value in the database,
made when it has none and replaced by each logout; a session carries
the value current at its login and is refused once it has changed. The
logout check compares no time, so the host's clock cannot block a
login, and losing the state directory ends every login session.
Logging out is now a POST with the CSRF token, sent by a form on the
generator page.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #265.
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2026-10-15 20:44:44 +02:00
parent 2ab96155ba
commit 742db9ceb1
12 changed files with 698 additions and 16 deletions
+116 -2
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@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
// Package session provides encrypted session cookie management.
// Package session provides encrypted session cookie management, and keeps in
// the database a random value that each logout replaces, so that a logout
// ends every session made before it.
package session
import (
"context"
"crypto/rand"
"database/sql"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net/http"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/gorilla/securecookie"
@@ -32,14 +39,36 @@ type Data struct {
Authenticated bool `json:"auth"`
CreatedAt time.Time `json:"created"`
ExpiresAt time.Time `json:"expires"`
// LogoutValue is the Manager's random value, which each logout
// replaces, when the session was made.
LogoutValue string `json:"logoutValue"`
}
// Manager handles session creation and validation using encrypted cookies.
//
// Every login is made with the one signing key, so a logout ends every
// session made before it, in every browser. The Manager keeps a random
// value, which each logout replaces: a session carries the value current at
// its login, and a session carrying another value is refused. The check for
// a logout compares no time, so a login after a logout works whatever the
// host's clock does; the session's expiry is still checked against the
// clock. The Manager keeps the value in memory, so checking a session reads
// no database; a Manager from NewManagerWithDatabase also saves it in the
// database, so that it outlasts a restart.
type Manager struct {
sc *securecookie.SecureCookie
db *sql.DB
// mu guards logoutValue, and is held while a logout is saved, so that
// the database and logoutValue agree.
mu sync.Mutex
logoutValue string
}
// NewManager creates a session manager with keys derived from the signing key.
// It makes a new random value and keeps it in memory only, so a restart ends
// every session; NewManagerWithDatabase keeps the value in the database.
//
// Session cookies always carry the Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite=Strict
// attributes; this cannot be configured. Browsers treat http://localhost as a
@@ -63,10 +92,44 @@ func NewManager(signingKey string) (*Manager, error) {
sc.MaxAge(int(SessionTTL.Seconds()))
return &Manager{
sc: sc,
sc: sc,
logoutValue: rand.Text(),
}, nil
}
// NewManagerWithDatabase creates a session manager like NewManager that keeps
// its random value in db, which must have pixa's schema: it saves the value
// NewManager made when db has none, and otherwise starts from the one saved
// there.
func NewManagerWithDatabase(
ctx context.Context, signingKey string, db *sql.DB,
) (*Manager, error) {
m, err := NewManager(signingKey)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
_, err = db.ExecContext(ctx,
"INSERT OR IGNORE INTO logout (id, logout_value) VALUES (1, ?)",
m.logoutValue)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"failed to save the random value in the logout table: %w", err)
}
err = db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
"SELECT logout_value FROM logout WHERE id = 1",
).Scan(&m.logoutValue)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"failed to read the random value in the logout table: %w", err)
}
m.db = db
return m, nil
}
// CreateSession creates a new authenticated session and sets the cookie.
func (m *Manager) CreateSession(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
now := time.Now()
@@ -74,6 +137,7 @@ func (m *Manager) CreateSession(w http.ResponseWriter) error {
Authenticated: true,
CreatedAt: now,
ExpiresAt: now.Add(SessionTTL),
LogoutValue: m.currentLogoutValue(),
}
encoded, err := m.sc.Encode(CookieName, data)
@@ -122,9 +186,30 @@ func (m *Manager) ValidateSession(r *http.Request) (*Data, error) {
return nil, ErrInvalidSession
}
// A logout since the session was made has ended it.
if data.LogoutValue != m.currentLogoutValue() {
return nil, ErrInvalidSession
}
return &data, nil
}
// Logout removes the session cookie and, when r has a valid session, ends
// every session made until now. A request without one ends no session, so
// someone who has not logged in cannot end the sessions of those who have.
func (m *Manager) Logout(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) error {
if m.IsAuthenticated(r) {
err := m.saveLogout(r.Context())
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
m.ClearSession(w)
return nil
}
// ClearSession removes the session cookie.
func (m *Manager) ClearSession(w http.ResponseWriter) {
http.SetCookie(w, &http.Cookie{
@@ -145,3 +230,32 @@ func (m *Manager) IsAuthenticated(r *http.Request) bool {
return err == nil && data != nil && data.Authenticated
}
// saveLogout replaces the random value with a new one, saving it in the
// database first when the Manager has one.
func (m *Manager) saveLogout(ctx context.Context) error {
value := rand.Text()
m.mu.Lock()
defer m.mu.Unlock()
if m.db != nil {
_, err := m.db.ExecContext(ctx,
"UPDATE logout SET logout_value = ? WHERE id = 1", value)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed to save the logout: %w", err)
}
}
m.logoutValue = value
return nil
}
// currentLogoutValue returns the Manager's random value.
func (m *Manager) currentLogoutValue() string {
m.mu.Lock()
defer m.mu.Unlock()
return m.logoutValue
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
package session_test
import (
"database/sql"
"errors"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"testing"
"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/database"
"sneak.berlin/go/pixa/internal/session"
)
const logoutTestSigningKey = "test-signing-key-12345"
// newTestDatabase opens an empty in-memory database with pixa's schema. It
// has one connection, as pixad's has: each connection to ":memory:" would
// open a database of its own.
func newTestDatabase(t *testing.T) *sql.DB {
t.Helper()
db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", ":memory:")
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("sql.Open() error = %v", err)
}
db.SetMaxOpenConns(1)
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = db.Close() })
err = database.ApplyMigrations(t.Context(), db, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("ApplyMigrations() error = %v", err)
}
return db
}
// createSessionCookie logs in with mgr and returns the session cookie it
// sets.
func createSessionCookie(t *testing.T, mgr *session.Manager) *http.Cookie {
t.Helper()
rec := httptest.NewRecorder()
err := mgr.CreateSession(rec)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("CreateSession() error = %v", err)
}
for _, c := range rec.Result().Cookies() {
if c.Name == session.CookieName {
return c
}
}
t.Fatalf("CreateSession() did not set a %q cookie", session.CookieName)
return nil
}
// requestWithCookie returns a GET request carrying cookie, or no cookie when
// cookie is nil.
func requestWithCookie(t *testing.T, cookie *http.Cookie) *http.Request {
t.Helper()
req := httptest.NewRequestWithContext(t.Context(), http.MethodGet, "/", nil)
if cookie != nil {
req.AddCookie(cookie)
}
return req
}
// TestLogout_EndsEverySessionMadeBeforeIt verifies that after a logout a
// copy of the session cookie taken before it is refused and a login after it
// works, and that both still hold for a new Manager on the same database, as
// after a restart.
func TestLogout_EndsEverySessionMadeBeforeIt(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
db := newTestDatabase(t)
mgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, db)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() error = %v", err)
}
copied := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
err = mgr.Logout(httptest.NewRecorder(), requestWithCookie(t, copied))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Logout() error = %v", err)
}
_, err = mgr.ValidateSession(requestWithCookie(t, copied))
t.Logf("cookie copied before the logout: ValidateSession() error = %v", err)
if !errors.Is(err, session.ErrInvalidSession) {
t.Errorf("cookie copied before the logout: error = %v, want %v",
err, session.ErrInvalidSession)
}
loginAfter := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
_, err = mgr.ValidateSession(requestWithCookie(t, loginAfter))
if err != nil {
t.Errorf("login after the logout: ValidateSession() error = %v", err)
}
restarted, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, db)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() after restart error = %v", err)
}
if restarted.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, copied)) {
t.Error("after a restart, a cookie copied before the logout is accepted")
}
if !restarted.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, loginAfter)) {
t.Error("after a restart, a login made after the logout is refused")
}
}
// TestLogout_WithoutSession_EndsNoSession verifies that a logout from a
// request without a session cookie ends no session, so someone who has not
// logged in cannot end the sessions of those who have.
func TestLogout_WithoutSession_EndsNoSession(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
mgr, err := session.NewManagerWithDatabase(
t.Context(), logoutTestSigningKey, newTestDatabase(t))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("NewManagerWithDatabase() error = %v", err)
}
cookie := createSessionCookie(t, mgr)
err = mgr.Logout(httptest.NewRecorder(), requestWithCookie(t, nil))
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("Logout() error = %v", err)
}
if !mgr.IsAuthenticated(requestWithCookie(t, cookie)) {
t.Error("a logout without a session cookie ended a session")
}
}