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# ungleichotp #
ungleich-otp is a full blown authentication and authorisation service
made for micro services.
The basic idea is that every micro service has a (long term) triple
constisting of (name, realm, seed) and creates time based tokens.
It basically revamps Kerberos in a simple way into the web area.
ungleichotp has been created and is maintained by [ungleich](https://ungleich.ch/).
Related documentation:
* [Python pyotp](https://pyotp.readthedocs.io/)
* [RFC6238, TOTP](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238)
* [RFC4120, Kerberos](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4120)
## Overview
This repository contains three components:
* ungleichotp-server: the reference implementation of the ungleichotp server
* ungleichotp-client: a sample implementation of an ungleichotp client
## Setup instructions ##
This is a standard django project and thus can be easily setup using
```
pip install -r requirements.txt
```
To bootstrap the application, you need your very first trusted seed to
access the application. You can generate it using
```
to be filled in
```
After that, you can run the application using
```
python manage.py runserver
```
The usual instructions on how to setup an https proxy should be followed.
## Realms ##
Access is granting/denied based on realms. There are two reserved
realms, all other realms can be used by the users:
### Reserved realms
Conceptually the realms "ungleich-admin" and "ungleich-auth" are
reserved for higher priviliged applications.
Usually there is only 1 entry in ungleich-admin that is used to
bootstrap and manage ungleich-otp.
All micro services that are trusted to authenticate another micro
service should have an entry in the ungleich-auth realm, which allows
them to verify a token of somebody else.
| Name | Capabilities |
|------------------+--------------------------------------------|
| ungleich-admin | authenticate, create, delete, list, update |
| ungleich-auth | authenticate |
| all other realms | NO ACCESS |
## Environment / Configuration (unfinished)
- POSTGRES_USERNAME
- SECRET_KEY -- random (?)
## Random notes / stuff (unfinished)
django.db.backends.postgresql
django.contrib.admin
```
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
'NAME': 'mydatabase',
'USER': 'mydatabaseuser',
'PASSWORD': 'mypassword',
'HOST': '127.0.0.1',
'PORT': '5432',
}
}
```
Custom auth
```
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from rest_framework import authentication
from rest_framework import exceptions
class ExampleAuthentication(authentication.BaseAuthentication):
def authenticate(self, request):
username = request.META.get('X_USERNAME')
if not username:
return None
try:
user = User.objects.get(username=username)
except User.DoesNotExist:
raise exceptions.AuthenticationFailed('No such user')
return (user, None)
```
Custom user
Dont forget to point AUTH_USER_MODEL to it. Do this before creating any migrations or running manage.py migrate for the first time.
### To document
* Login via username password interactively
* Login via name/realm/token rest
## The library (ungleichotp)
## The server (ungleichotp-server)
## The sample client (ungleichotp-client)
The included client application is a Django application that makes use
of an ungleichotp-server to authenticate requests.
### Usage
* Ensure that the ungleichotp-server is running and reachable
## Integrating ungleichotp
### In Django
### In other frameworks
In general, you will need to implement the following into your app for
resources that need to have an authenticated user:
#### Retrieve name, realm and token from the request
This is application specific. In the sample Django rest framework, we
use JSON to retrieve this values:
```
{
"name": "info@ungleich.ch",
"token": "947732",
"realm": "ungleich-admin",
"otherdata": "..."
}
```
#### Send name, realm and token from the request to the ungleichotp-server
Post a JSON object to /ungleichotp/verify that contains the following
elements:
Request JSON object:
```
{
version: "1",
name: "your-name",
realm: "your-realm",
token: "current time based token",
verifyname: "name that wants to be authenticated",
verifyrealm: "realm that wants to be authenticated",
verifytoken: "token that wants to be authenticated",
}
```
Response JSON object:
Either HTTP 200 with
```
{
status: "OK",
}
```
OR return code 403:
* If token for authenticating is wrong, you get
```
{"detail":"Incorrect authentication credentials."}
```
* If token that is being verified is wrong, you get
```
{"detail":"You do not have permission to perform this action."}
```
#### Authorize the request
From the ungleichotp-server, you get a validated information that a
name on a realm authenticated successfully. The associated permissions
("authorization") is application specific and needs to be decided by
your application.
## TODOs
- [x] (server) Serialize / input request
- [x] (server) Make seed read only
- [x] (server) Implement registering of new entries
- [x] (server) OTPSerializer: allow to read seed for admin
- [x] (server) Implement deleting entry
- [x] (server) Include verify in ModelSerializer
- [x] (server) Map name+realm == User (?)
- name == name@realm
- password is used for admin login (?)
- seed
- custom auth method
- [n] (server) Try to fake username for django based on name+realm (?)
- No need
- [n] (server) maybe overwrite get_username()
- No need
- [x] (server) Use Custom authentication - needs to have a user!
- [x] (server) Implement creating new "User" by POST / Model based
- [n] (server) Remove hard coded JSON in /verify (no - good enough for the moment)
- [ ] (security) Ensure that only the right realms can verify
- [ ] (security) Ensure that only the right realms can manage
- [ ] (server) Add tests for verify
- [ ] (server) Add tests for authentication
- [ ] (doc) Add proper documentation
- [ ] (server) move totp constants into settings
- [ ] (server) move field lengths into settings
- [ ] (server, client) Make settings adjustable by environment - k8s/docker compatible
- [ ] (server, client) Read DB from outside (?) (fallback to sqlite)
- [ ] (library) Write a "client library" that can use ungleichotp
- [ ] (library) extract generic parts from server
- [ ] (library) upload to pypi
- [ ] (client) Bootstrap Django + DRF (including an object for CRUD)
- [ ] (client) Add custom authentication / remote auth
- [ ] (server) Document how admin vs. rest works
- [ ] (server) Fully rename server from ungleichotp to ungleichotpserver
## Changelog
### 0.6, 2018-11-18
* Reuse TokenSerializer for VerifySerializer logic
### 0.5, 2018-11-18
* Require authentication on all rest endpoints by token