Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#21649 closed New feature (fixed)

Add session signing based on the value of the user's password

Reported by: Tim Graham Owned by: Tim Graham
Component: contrib.auth Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Add another value ('_auth_user_hash', '<some hash stuff>') based on the HMAC of the user's password hash to session verification. This will have the benefit of allowing a user to log out their other sessions by changing the password. Of course, it should not log out the current session.

Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham

Has patch: set

PR is up for review.

One thing I'd like feedback on is whether we should try to make this more backwards-compatible. Currently: "As a side effect of this change, users will be logged out when upgrading from an older version of Django."

comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by Paul McMillan

I think in the past we've done work to preserve sessions across version upgrades. This of course has the downside of making the full benefit of the patch take an extra version to manifest. I personally don't mind sessions going away during upgrade, but I believe that some users of Django may not be comfortable with that.

I'd defer to Jacob or Luke or another conservative core dev. The upgrade code path shouldn't be too complex in this case.

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham

Patch needs improvement: set

Florian and Shai were both against losing sessions for this change. Shai suggested have a separate middleware for session signing & verification so that users who don't want this behavior can opt-out. I'll look into that approach.

comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham

Patch needs improvement: unset

Here's an updated PR that uses the middleware approach suggested above.

comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by Aymeric Augustin

Triage Stage: AcceptedReady for checkin

comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In fd23c06023a0585ee743c0752dc94da66694cf63:

Fixed #21649 -- Added optional invalidation of sessions when user password changes.

Thanks Paul McMillan, Aymeric Augustin, and Erik Romijn for reviews.

comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

In 5891fd3f89337fc190cf671575407233440d2736:

[1.7.x] Fixed #21649 -- Added optional invalidation of sessions when user password changes.

Thanks Paul McMillan, Aymeric Augustin, and Erik Romijn for reviews.

Backport of fd23c06023 from master

comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

In 11e30b684d1a74bf7cc3b3bd22c0ffbdaa28f0a0:

Fixed a KeyError on login with legacy sessions; refs #21649.

Thanks Loic for the report.

comment:9 Changed 10 years ago by Tim Graham <timograham@…>

In 548acd77fd6356073ad4fa514c3d61f6589da43b:

[1.7.x] Fixed a KeyError on login with legacy sessions; refs #21649.

Thanks Loic for the report.

Backport of 11e30b684d from master

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