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# Authors:
# Jason Gerard DeRose <jderose@redhat.com>
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"""
Various utility functions.
"""
import os
import imp
import time
import socket
import re
import decimal
import netaddr
from types import NoneType
from weakref import WeakKeyDictionary
from dns import resolver, rdatatype
from dns.exception import DNSException
from ipalib import errors
from ipalib.text import _
from ipapython.ssh import SSHPublicKey
Use DN objects instead of strings * Convert every string specifying a DN into a DN object * Every place a dn was manipulated in some fashion it was replaced by the use of DN operators * Add new DNParam parameter type for parameters which are DN's * DN objects are used 100% of the time throughout the entire data pipeline whenever something is logically a dn. * Many classes now enforce DN usage for their attributes which are dn's. This is implmented via ipautil.dn_attribute_property(). The only permitted types for a class attribute specified to be a DN are either None or a DN object. * Require that every place a dn is used it must be a DN object. This translates into lot of:: assert isinstance(dn, DN) sprinkled through out the code. Maintaining these asserts is valuable to preserve DN type enforcement. The asserts can be disabled in production. The goal of 100% DN usage 100% of the time has been realized, these asserts are meant to preserve that. The asserts also proved valuable in detecting functions which did not obey their function signatures, such as the baseldap pre and post callbacks. * Moved ipalib.dn to ipapython.dn because DN class is shared with all components, not just the server which uses ipalib. * All API's now accept DN's natively, no need to convert to str (or unicode). * Removed ipalib.encoder and encode/decode decorators. Type conversion is now explicitly performed in each IPASimpleLDAPObject method which emulates a ldap.SimpleLDAPObject method. * Entity & Entry classes now utilize DN's * Removed __getattr__ in Entity & Entity clases. There were two problems with it. It presented synthetic Python object attributes based on the current LDAP data it contained. There is no way to validate synthetic attributes using code checkers, you can't search the code to find LDAP attribute accesses (because synthetic attriutes look like Python attributes instead of LDAP data) and error handling is circumscribed. Secondly __getattr__ was hiding Python internal methods which broke class semantics. * Replace use of methods inherited from ldap.SimpleLDAPObject via IPAdmin class with IPAdmin methods. Directly using inherited methods was causing us to bypass IPA logic. Mostly this meant replacing the use of search_s() with getEntry() or getList(). Similarly direct access of the LDAP data in classes using IPAdmin were replaced with calls to getValue() or getValues(). * Objects returned by ldap2.find_entries() are now compatible with either the python-ldap access methodology or the Entity/Entry access methodology. * All ldap operations now funnel through the common IPASimpleLDAPObject giving us a single location where we interface to python-ldap and perform conversions. * The above 4 modifications means we've greatly reduced the proliferation of multiple inconsistent ways to perform LDAP operations. We are well on the way to having a single API in IPA for doing LDAP (a long range goal). * All certificate subject bases are now DN's * DN objects were enhanced thusly: - find, rfind, index, rindex, replace and insert methods were added - AVA, RDN and DN classes were refactored in immutable and mutable variants, the mutable variants are EditableAVA, EditableRDN and EditableDN. By default we use the immutable variants preserving important semantics. To edit a DN cast it to an EditableDN and cast it back to DN when done editing. These issues are fully described in other documentation. - first_key_match was removed - DN equalty comparison permits comparison to a basestring * Fixed ldapupdate to work with DN's. This work included: - Enhance test_updates.py to do more checking after applying update. Add test for update_from_dict(). Convert code to use unittest classes. - Consolidated duplicate code. - Moved code which should have been in the class into the class. - Fix the handling of the 'deleteentry' update action. It's no longer necessary to supply fake attributes to make it work. Detect case where subsequent update applies a change to entry previously marked for deletetion. General clean-up and simplification of the 'deleteentry' logic. - Rewrote a couple of functions to be clearer and more Pythonic. - Added documentation on the data structure being used. - Simplfy the use of update_from_dict() * Removed all usage of get_schema() which was being called prior to accessing the .schema attribute of an object. If a class is using internal lazy loading as an optimization it's not right to require users of the interface to be aware of internal optimization's. schema is now a property and when the schema property is accessed it calls a private internal method to perform the lazy loading. * Added SchemaCache class to cache the schema's from individual servers. This was done because of the observation we talk to different LDAP servers, each of which may have it's own schema. Previously we globally cached the schema from the first server we connected to and returned that schema in all contexts. The cache includes controls to invalidate it thus forcing a schema refresh. * Schema caching is now senstive to the run time context. During install and upgrade the schema can change leading to errors due to out-of-date cached schema. The schema cache is refreshed in these contexts. * We are aware of the LDAP syntax of all LDAP attributes. Every attribute returned from an LDAP operation is passed through a central table look-up based on it's LDAP syntax. The table key is the LDAP syntax it's value is a Python callable that returns a Python object matching the LDAP syntax. There are a handful of LDAP attributes whose syntax is historically incorrect (e.g. DistguishedNames that are defined as DirectoryStrings). The table driven conversion mechanism is augmented with a table of hard coded exceptions. Currently only the following conversions occur via the table: - dn's are converted to DN objects - binary objects are converted to Python str objects (IPA convention). - everything else is converted to unicode using UTF-8 decoding (IPA convention). However, now that the table driven conversion mechanism is in place it would be trivial to do things such as converting attributes which have LDAP integer syntax into a Python integer, etc. * Expected values in the unit tests which are a DN no longer need to use lambda expressions to promote the returned value to a DN for equality comparison. The return value is automatically promoted to a DN. The lambda expressions have been removed making the code much simpler and easier to read. * Add class level logging to a number of classes which did not support logging, less need for use of root_logger. * Remove ipaserver/conn.py, it was unused. * Consolidated duplicate code wherever it was found. * Fixed many places that used string concatenation to form a new string rather than string formatting operators. This is necessary because string formatting converts it's arguments to a string prior to building the result string. You can't concatenate a string and a non-string. * Simplify logic in rename_managed plugin. Use DN operators to edit dn's. * The live version of ipa-ldap-updater did not generate a log file. The offline version did, now both do. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1670 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1671 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1672 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1673 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1674 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/1392 https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2872
2012-05-13 06:36:35 -05:00
from ipapython.dn import DN, RDN
def json_serialize(obj):
if isinstance(obj, (list, tuple)):
return [json_serialize(o) for o in obj]
if isinstance(obj, dict):
return dict((k, json_serialize(v)) for (k, v) in obj.iteritems())
if isinstance(obj, (bool, float, int, long, unicode, NoneType)):
return obj
if isinstance(obj, str):
return obj.decode('utf-8')
if isinstance(obj, (decimal.Decimal, DN)):
return str(obj)
if not callable(getattr(obj, '__json__', None)):
# raise TypeError('%r is not JSON serializable')
return ''
return json_serialize(obj.__json__())
def get_current_principal():
try:
# krbV isn't necessarily available on client machines, fail gracefully
import krbV
return unicode(krbV.default_context().default_ccache().principal().name)
except ImportError:
raise RuntimeError('python-krbV is not available.')
except krbV.Krb5Error:
#TODO: do a kinit?
raise errors.CCacheError()
# FIXME: This function has no unit test
def find_modules_in_dir(src_dir):
"""
Iterate through module names found in ``src_dir``.
"""
if not (os.path.abspath(src_dir) == src_dir and os.path.isdir(src_dir)):
return
if os.path.islink(src_dir):
return
suffix = '.py'
for name in sorted(os.listdir(src_dir)):
if not name.endswith(suffix):
continue
pyfile = os.path.join(src_dir, name)
if not os.path.isfile(pyfile):
continue
module = name[:-len(suffix)]
if module == '__init__':
continue
yield (module, pyfile)
def validate_host_dns(log, fqdn):
"""
See if the hostname has a DNS A record.
"""
try:
answers = resolver.query(fqdn, rdatatype.A)
log.debug(
'IPA: found %d records for %s: %s' % (len(answers), fqdn,
' '.join(str(answer) for answer in answers))
)
except DNSException, e:
log.debug(
'IPA: DNS A record lookup failed for %s' % fqdn
)
raise errors.DNSNotARecordError()
def has_soa_or_ns_record(domain):
"""
Checks to see if given domain has SOA or NS record.
Returns True or False.
"""
try:
resolver.query(domain, rdatatype.SOA)
soa_record_found = True
except DNSException:
soa_record_found = False
try:
resolver.query(domain, rdatatype.NS)
ns_record_found = True
except DNSException:
ns_record_found = False
return soa_record_found or ns_record_found
def normalize_name(name):
result = dict()
components = name.split('@')
if len(components) == 2:
result['domain'] = unicode(components[1]).lower()
result['name'] = unicode(components[0]).lower()
else:
components = name.split('\\')
if len(components) == 2:
result['flatname'] = unicode(components[0]).lower()
result['name'] = unicode(components[1]).lower()
else:
result['name'] = unicode(name).lower()
return result
def isvalid_base64(data):
"""
Validate the incoming data as valid base64 data or not.
The character set must only include of a-z, A-Z, 0-9, + or / and
be padded with = to be a length divisible by 4 (so only 0-2 =s are
allowed). Its length must be divisible by 4. White space is
not significant so it is removed.
This doesn't guarantee we have a base64-encoded value, just that it
fits the base64 requirements.
"""
data = ''.join(data.split())
if len(data) % 4 > 0 or \
re.match('^[a-zA-Z0-9\+\/]+\={0,2}$', data) is None:
return False
else:
return True
def validate_ipaddr(ipaddr):
"""
Check to see if the given IP address is a valid IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Returns True or False
"""
try:
socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET, ipaddr)
except socket.error:
try:
socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET6, ipaddr)
except socket.error:
return False
return True
def check_writable_file(filename):
"""
Determine if the file is writable. If the file doesn't exist then
open the file to test writability.
"""
if filename is None:
raise errors.FileError(reason=_('Filename is empty'))
try:
if os.path.exists(filename):
if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
raise errors.FileError(reason=_('Permission denied: %(file)s') % dict(file=filename))
else:
fp = open(filename, 'w')
fp.close()
except (IOError, OSError), e:
raise errors.FileError(reason=str(e))
def normalize_zonemgr(zonemgr):
if not zonemgr:
# do not normalize empty or None value
return zonemgr
if '@' in zonemgr:
# local-part needs to be normalized
name, at, domain = zonemgr.partition('@')
name = name.replace('.', '\\.')
zonemgr = u''.join((name, u'.', domain))
if not zonemgr.endswith('.'):
zonemgr = zonemgr + u'.'
return zonemgr
def normalize_zone(zone):
if zone[-1] != '.':
return zone + '.'
else:
return zone
def validate_dns_label(dns_label, allow_underscore=False):
label_chars = r'a-z0-9'
underscore_err_msg = ''
if allow_underscore:
label_chars += "_"
underscore_err_msg = u' _,'
label_regex = r'^[%(chars)s]([%(chars)s-]?[%(chars)s])*$' % dict(chars=label_chars)
regex = re.compile(label_regex, re.IGNORECASE)
if not dns_label:
raise ValueError(_('empty DNS label'))
if len(dns_label) > 63:
raise ValueError(_('DNS label cannot be longer that 63 characters'))
if not regex.match(dns_label):
raise ValueError(_('only letters, numbers,%(underscore)s and - are allowed. ' \
'DNS label may not start or end with -') \
% dict(underscore=underscore_err_msg))
def validate_domain_name(domain_name, allow_underscore=False):
if domain_name.endswith('.'):
domain_name = domain_name[:-1]
domain_name = domain_name.split(".")
# apply DNS name validator to every name part
map(lambda label:validate_dns_label(label,allow_underscore), domain_name)
def validate_zonemgr(zonemgr):
""" See RFC 1033, 1035 """
regex_local_part = re.compile(r'^[a-z0-9]([a-z0-9-_]?[a-z0-9])*$',
re.IGNORECASE)
local_part_errmsg = _('mail account may only include letters, numbers, -, _ and a dot. There may not be consecutive -, _ and . characters. Its parts may not start or end with - or _')
local_part_sep = '.'
local_part = None
domain = None
if len(zonemgr) > 255:
raise ValueError(_('cannot be longer that 255 characters'))
if zonemgr.endswith('.'):
zonemgr = zonemgr[:-1]
if zonemgr.count('@') == 1:
local_part, dot, domain = zonemgr.partition('@')
elif zonemgr.count('@') > 1:
raise ValueError(_('too many \'@\' characters'))
else:
last_fake_sep = zonemgr.rfind('\\.')
if last_fake_sep != -1: # there is a 'fake' local-part/domain separator
local_part_sep = '\\.'
sep = zonemgr.find('.', last_fake_sep+2)
if sep != -1:
local_part = zonemgr[:sep]
domain = zonemgr[sep+1:]
else:
local_part, dot, domain = zonemgr.partition('.')
if not domain:
raise ValueError(_('missing address domain'))
validate_domain_name(domain)
if not local_part:
raise ValueError(_('missing mail account'))
if not all(regex_local_part.match(part) for part in \
local_part.split(local_part_sep)):
raise ValueError(local_part_errmsg)
def validate_hostname(hostname, check_fqdn=True, allow_underscore=False):
Refactor dnsrecord processing Current DNS record processing architecture has many flaws, including custom execute() methods which does not take advantage of base LDAP commands or nonstandard and confusing DNS record option processing. This patch refactors DNS record processing with the following improvements: * Every DNS record has now own Parameter type. Each DNS record consists from one or more "parts" which are also Parameters. This architecture will enable much easier implementation of future per-DNS-type API. * Validation is now not written as a separate function for every parameter but is delegated to DNS record parts. * Normalization is also delegated to DNS record parts. * Since standard LDAP base commands execute method is now used, dnsrecord-add and dnsrecord-mod correctly supports --setattr and --addattr options. * In order to prevent confusion unsupported DNS record types are now hidden. They are still present in the plugin so that old clients receive proper validation error. The patch also contains several fixes: * Fix domain-name validation and normalization- allow domain names that are not fully qualified. For example --cname-rec=bar is a valid domain-name for bind which will translate it then as bar.<owning-domain>. This change implies, that fully qualified domain names must end with '.'. * Do not let user accidentally remove entire zone with command "ipa dnsrecord-del @ --del-all". * Fix --ttl and --class option processing in dnsrecord-add and dnsrecord-mod. All API changes are compatible with clients without this patch. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2082
2012-01-06 08:12:41 -06:00
""" See RFC 952, 1123
:param hostname Checked value
:param check_fqdn Check if hostname is fully qualified
"""
if len(hostname) > 255:
raise ValueError(_('cannot be longer that 255 characters'))
if hostname.endswith('.'):
hostname = hostname[:-1]
if '..' in hostname:
raise ValueError(_('hostname contains empty label (consecutive dots)'))
if '.' not in hostname:
if check_fqdn:
raise ValueError(_('not fully qualified'))
validate_dns_label(hostname,allow_underscore)
else:
validate_domain_name(hostname,allow_underscore)
def normalize_sshpubkey(value):
return SSHPublicKey(value).openssh()
def validate_sshpubkey(ugettext, value):
try:
SSHPublicKey(value)
except ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError:
return _('invalid SSH public key')
def validate_sshpubkey_no_options(ugettext, value):
try:
pubkey = SSHPublicKey(value)
except ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError:
return _('invalid SSH public key')
if pubkey.has_options():
return _('options are not allowed')
def convert_sshpubkey_post(ldap, dn, entry_attrs):
if 'ipasshpubkey' in entry_attrs:
pubkeys = entry_attrs['ipasshpubkey']
else:
old_entry_attrs = ldap.get_entry(dn, ['ipasshpubkey'])
pubkeys = old_entry_attrs.get('ipasshpubkey')
if not pubkeys:
return
newpubkeys = []
fingerprints = []
for pubkey in pubkeys:
try:
pubkey = SSHPublicKey(pubkey)
except ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError:
continue
fp = pubkey.fingerprint_hex_md5()
comment = pubkey.comment()
if comment:
fp = u'%s %s' % (fp, comment)
fp = u'%s (%s)' % (fp, pubkey.keytype())
newpubkeys.append(pubkey.openssh())
fingerprints.append(fp)
if 'ipasshpubkey' in entry_attrs:
entry_attrs['ipasshpubkey'] = newpubkeys or None
if fingerprints:
entry_attrs['sshpubkeyfp'] = fingerprints
class cachedproperty(object):
"""
A property-like attribute that caches the return value of a method call.
When the attribute is first read, the method is called and its return
value is saved and returned. On subsequent reads, the saved value is
returned.
Typical usage:
class C(object):
@cachedproperty
def attr(self):
return 'value'
"""
__slots__ = ('getter', 'store')
def __init__(self, getter):
self.getter = getter
self.store = WeakKeyDictionary()
def __get__(self, obj, cls):
if obj is None:
return None
if obj not in self.store:
self.store[obj] = self.getter(obj)
return self.store[obj]
def __set__(self, obj, value):
raise AttributeError("can't set attribute")
def __delete__(self, obj):
raise AttributeError("can't delete attribute")
add session manager and cache krb auth This patch adds a session manager and support for caching authentication in the session. Major elements of the patch are: * Add a session manager to support cookie based sessions which stores session data in a memcached entry. * Add ipalib/krb_utils.py which contains functions to parse ccache names, format principals, format KRB timestamps, and a KRB_CCache class which reads ccache entry and allows one to extract information such as the principal, credentials, credential timestamps, etc. * Move krb constants defined in ipalib/rpc.py to ipa_krb_utils.py so that all kerberos items are co-located. * Modify javascript in ipa.js so that the IPA.command() RPC call checks for authentication needed error response and if it receives it sends a GET request to /ipa/login URL to refresh credentials. * Add session_auth_duration config item to constants.py, used to configure how long a session remains valid. * Add parse_time_duration utility to ipalib/util.py. Used to parse the session_auth_duration config item. * Update the default.conf.5 man page to document session_auth_duration config item (also added documentation for log_manager config items which had been inadvertantly omitted from a previous commit). * Add SessionError object to ipalib/errors.py * Move Kerberos protection in Apache config from /ipa to /ipa/xml and /ipa/login * Add SessionCCache class to session.py to manage temporary Kerberos ccache file in effect for the duration of an RPC command. * Adds a krblogin plugin used to implement the /ipa/login handler. login handler sets the session expiration time, currently 60 minutes or the expiration of the TGT, whichever is shorter. It also copies the ccache provied by mod_auth_kerb into the session data. The json handler will later extract and validate the ccache belonging to the session. * Refactored the WSGI handlers so that json and xlmrpc could have independent behavior, this also moves where create and destroy context occurs, now done in the individual handler rather than the parent class. * The json handler now looks up the session data, validates the ccache bound to the session, if it's expired replies with authenicated needed error. * Add documentation to session.py. Fully documents the entire process, got questions, read the doc. * Add exclusions to make-lint as needed.
2012-02-06 12:29:56 -06:00
# regexp matching signed floating point number (group 1) followed by
# optional whitespace followed by time unit, e.g. day, hour (group 7)
time_duration_re = re.compile(r'([-+]?((\d+)|(\d+\.\d+)|(\.\d+)|(\d+\.)))\s*([a-z]+)', re.IGNORECASE)
# number of seconds in a time unit
time_duration_units = {
'year' : 365*24*60*60,
'years' : 365*24*60*60,
'y' : 365*24*60*60,
'month' : 30*24*60*60,
'months' : 30*24*60*60,
'week' : 7*24*60*60,
'weeks' : 7*24*60*60,
'w' : 7*24*60*60,
'day' : 24*60*60,
'days' : 24*60*60,
'd' : 24*60*60,
'hour' : 60*60,
'hours' : 60*60,
'h' : 60*60,
'minute' : 60,
'minutes' : 60,
'min' : 60,
'second' : 1,
'seconds' : 1,
'sec' : 1,
's' : 1,
}
def parse_time_duration(value):
'''
Given a time duration string, parse it and return the total number
of seconds represented as a floating point value. Negative values
are permitted.
The string should be composed of one or more numbers followed by a
time unit. Whitespace and punctuation is optional. The numbers may
be optionally signed. The time units are case insenstive except
for the single character 'M' or 'm' which means month and minute
respectively.
Recognized time units are:
* year, years, y
* month, months, M
* week, weeks, w
* day, days, d
* hour, hours, h
* minute, minutes, min, m
* second, seconds, sec, s
Examples:
"1h" # 1 hour
"2 HOURS, 30 Minutes" # 2.5 hours
"1week -1 day" # 6 days
".5day" # 12 hours
"2M" # 2 months
"1h:15m" # 1.25 hours
"1h, -15min" # 45 minutes
"30 seconds" # .5 minute
Note: Despite the appearance you can perform arithmetic the
parsing is much simpler, the parser searches for signed values and
adds the signed value to a running total. Only + and - are permitted
and must appear prior to a digit.
:parameters:
value : string
A time duration string in the specified format
:returns:
total number of seconds as float (may be negative)
'''
matches = 0
duration = 0.0
for match in time_duration_re.finditer(value):
matches += 1
magnitude = match.group(1)
unit = match.group(7)
# Get the unit, only M and m are case sensitive
if unit == 'M': # month
seconds_per_unit = 30*24*60*60
elif unit == 'm': # minute
seconds_per_unit = 60
else:
unit = unit.lower()
seconds_per_unit = time_duration_units.get(unit)
if seconds_per_unit is None:
raise ValueError('unknown time duration unit "%s"' % unit)
magnitude = float(magnitude)
seconds = magnitude * seconds_per_unit
duration += seconds
if matches == 0:
raise ValueError('no time duration found in "%s"' % value)
return duration
def get_dns_forward_zone_update_policy(realm, rrtypes=('A', 'AAAA', 'SSHFP')):
"""
Generate update policy for a forward DNS zone (idnsUpdatePolicy
attribute). Bind uses this policy to grant/reject access for client
machines trying to dynamically update their records.
:param realm: A realm of the of the client
:param rrtypes: A list of resource records types that client shall be
allowed to update
"""
policy_element = "grant %(realm)s krb5-self * %(rrtype)s"
policies = [ policy_element % dict(realm=realm, rrtype=rrtype) \
for rrtype in rrtypes ]
policy = "; ".join(policies)
policy += ";"
return policy
def get_dns_reverse_zone_update_policy(realm, reverse_zone, rrtypes=('PTR',)):
"""
Generate update policy for a reverse DNS zone (idnsUpdatePolicy
attribute). Bind uses this policy to grant/reject access for client
machines trying to dynamically update their records.
:param realm: A realm of the of the client
:param reverse_zone: Name of the actual zone. All clients with IPs in this
sub-domain will be allowed to perform changes
:param rrtypes: A list of resource records types that client shall be
allowed to update
"""
policy_element = "grant %(realm)s krb5-subdomain %(zone)s %(rrtype)s"
policies = [ policy_element \
% dict(realm=realm, zone=reverse_zone, rrtype=rrtype) \
for rrtype in rrtypes ]
policy = "; ".join(policies)
policy += ";"
return policy
# dictionary of valid reverse zone -> number of address components
REVERSE_DNS_ZONES = {
'.in-addr.arpa.' : 4,
'.ip6.arpa.' : 32,
}
def zone_is_reverse(zone_name):
zone_name = normalize_zone(zone_name)
if any(zone_name.endswith(name) for name in REVERSE_DNS_ZONES):
return True
return False
def get_reverse_zone_default(ip_address):
ip = netaddr.IPAddress(str(ip_address))
items = ip.reverse_dns.split('.')
if ip.version == 4:
items = items[1:] # /24 for IPv4
elif ip.version == 6:
items = items[16:] # /64 for IPv6
return normalize_zone('.'.join(items))
def validate_rdn_param(ugettext, value):
try:
rdn = RDN(value)
except Exception, e:
return str(e)
return None