Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#6310 closed (duplicate)

@permission_required / _CheckLogin attempt to authenticate authenticated users rather saying permission denied.

Reported by: greencm Owned by: nobody
Component: Contrib apps Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: auth cas
Cc: Triage Stage: Design decision needed
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

In developing django_cas, I would like it to be a drop-in augmentation for contrib.auth. CAS is essentially designed to have a separate server provide SSO for authentication data rather than checking a local password store.

The code we currently have works great for everything but the default contrib.auth.decorators.

@permission_required is essentially two checks:

1) Check they are authenticated
2) Check they have the right permissions

If this fails, direct the user to the login page.

In the CAS world (and presumably other similar architectures), directing the user back to the login url pushes them to the SSO server, the login server says the user is authenticated, directs them back to the original url (decorated by @permission_required), and then back to the SSO server in an infinite loop.

I would like to change the semantics of _CheckLogin to redirect only unauthenticated users to the login page and provide an HttpResponseForbidden error otherwise.

Attachments (1)

contrib_auth_decorators.patch (1.7 KB ) - added by greencm 16 years ago.
patch to replace implement desired behavior

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Change History (5)

by greencm, 16 years ago

patch to replace implement desired behavior

comment:1 by greencm, 16 years ago

Just as a note:

self.client.login(user='not_allowed',password='password')
response = self.client.get('/limited_access/')
# no permission, get redirected to login page
self.failUnlessEqual(response.status_code, 403), "Must need to install contrib.auth patch?"


# the status_code will be 302 redirect in the traditional setup.

comment:2 by Simon Greenhill <dev@…>, 16 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

Hi, can you raise this issue on django-developers?

comment:3 by Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@…>, 16 years ago

This seems to be the same issue as #4617.

comment:4 by Chris Beaven, 16 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Yep, marking as dupe

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