LDAPSERVER was documented as a space separated list, but the whole
string went into a single ldap3.Server. Logins worked (python-ldap
accepts lists), while registration and every write would have failed
with more than one URI.
settings.LDAP_SERVERS is now the split list, used through one ldap3
ServerPool per process: requests go to the first reachable server, a
server that is down is skipped for 60s, connections time out after 5s,
and with all servers down the pool gives up after two passes instead
of retrying forever.
python-ldap is a C extension that needs the OpenLDAP headers to build
(and needed a workaround in the Dockerfile). ldap3, which the app
already used for all writes, is pure Python.
dal.backends.LdapBackend keeps the django-auth-ldap behaviour: search
the uid in every LDAPSEARCH base as the admin DN, require exactly one
match, log in with the user's DN, and mirror givenName, sn and mail into
the local Django user. Empty passwords are rejected (LDAP treats them
as anonymous logins, which succeed).
LDAP_USE_TLS now applies StartTLS to every connection, including the
admin connection used for writes, not just logins.
utcnow() is deprecated since Python 3.12. Calling .timestamp() on its
naive result also read it as local time, so token ages were off by the
host's UTC offset everywhere except on UTC hosts. Unix time from
time.time() is what the code meant.
Remove USE_L10N; localized formatting is always on from 5.0. Replace
User.objects.make_random_password() (removed in 5.1) with a
secrets-based generator for the create API's initial password, using
the same unambiguous alphabet and 16 characters instead of 10.
Step 2 of the upgrade. Dependencies are bumped to their newest versions
compatible with Django 4.2.
Django 4.0 rejects cache_control applied directly to a view method, so
Index.get now wraps it in method_decorator. Without this the landing
page returns 500. A test now checks the no-store header.
Step 1 of the upgrade (Python 3.9). Dependencies are bumped to their
newest versions compatible with Django 3.2.
DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD is set to AutoField, which matches the existing
tables, so no migration is needed and the W042 warnings go away.
SeedRetrieveCreate printed every submitted password to stdout, so it
ended up in container and server logs. The reset view logged complete
reset URLs at debug level, and those work as credentials until used.
The highest uidNumber was cached in dal/ldap_max_uid_file. That breaks
with more than one replica and is lost on every container restart. The
uniqueness check behind it searched base '' (the root DSE), which
OpenLDAP never matches, so nothing caught a stale file. The error path
also referenced a setting that does not exist.
Now a paged search over ENTIRE_SEARCH_BASE finds the highest uidNumber
on each activation. Numbering is unchanged: the next number is above
both LDAP_DEFAULT_START_UID and every existing uidNumber.
LDAP_MAX_UID_FILE_PATH is no longer used.
Registration only collided inside ou=customers, so a staff username
from ou=users could be registered again as a customer, creating two
accounts with the same uid. Check the whole tree (ENTIRE_SEARCH_BASE)
on the register form, in the create API, and again at activation in
case the name was taken in between.
The activation link carried base64-encoded username, password, names
and email, so plaintext passwords ended up in mail archives, browser
history and proxy logs.
Registration now hashes the password to {SSHA} immediately and stores
it in a new PendingRegistration table (migration 0002). The emailed
link is /activate/<token>/ with a random token only, and activation
writes the stored hash into LDAP. Pending entries expire after 24h,
like reset tokens. This also drops the PseudoUser/token-generator
workaround.
Links in emails sent before deployment stop working; those users must
register again.
ResetRequest.post took the username from a hidden form field and
changed that user's password without checking any token, so anyone
could take over any account with a single POST to /reset/.
Opening a valid reset link now stores the verified username in the
session (valid for one hour, cleared after use). The POST only acts on
that user and ignores the form field. Reset tokens now come from
secrets.token_urlsafe, and malformed links return 404 instead of 500.
The uid was formatted straight into search filters, so a password
reset for user '*' matched and changed the first entry in the tree
(staff accounts included). Escape filter values with
escape_filter_chars and DN values with escape_rdn.
Also fix the username pattern: [a-z|0-9|\-|_] allowed '|'.
Restore root requirements.txt pinned to what production runs
(Django 2.2, last patch 2.2.28) so the upgrade starts from a
reproducible baseline. Restore logs/.keep; the logging config fails
on a fresh clone without the directory.
The tests drive every view over HTTP against the real test LDAP:
login, registration and activation, data and password changes,
password reset, account deletion, the create API and OTP seeds.
Known bugs are recorded as expected failures:
- password reset POST changes any user's password without a token
- LDAP filter injection in reset (user='*' hits the first entry)
- activation link carries the base64-encoded password
- a username from ou=users can be registered again under ou=customers
