auth

Paddy 2015-05-15 Parent:d103a598548c Child:807d20a0b197

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auth/config.go

Switch to a JWT approach. We're going to use a JWT as our access tokens (as discussed in &yet's excellent post https://blog.andyet.com/2015/05/12/micro-services-user-info-and-auth and my ensuing conversation with Fritzy). The benefit of this approach is that we can do authentication and even some authorization without touching the database at all. The drawback is that we can no longer revoke access tokens, only the refresh tokens that grant the access tokens. We need a new config variable to set our private key, used to sign the JWT. We get to remove our token handlers, as we no longer can revoke tokens, so there's no purpose in getting information about it or listing them. Our tokenStore revokeToken gets to be simplified, as it will only ever be used for refresh tokens now. We also updated our postgres and memstore implementations. We added a helper method for generating the signed "access token" (our JWT) and started using it in the places where we're creating a Token. We get to remove the `revoked` SQL column for the tokens table, and rename the `refresh_revoked` column to just be `revoked`. We shortened our access token expiration to 15 minutes instead of an hour, to deal with the token not being revokable.

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paddy@96 1 package auth
paddy@96 2
paddy@96 3 import (
paddy@96 4 "errors"
paddy@96 5 "html/template"
paddy@101 6 "log"
paddy@96 7 )
paddy@96 8
paddy@96 9 var (
paddy@96 10 // ErrInvalidLoginURI is returned when a Context is instantiated with a Config object that specifies a LoginURI that can't be parsed as a URL.
paddy@96 11 ErrInvalidLoginURI = errors.New("invalid login URI")
paddy@102 12 // ErrConfigNotInitialized is returned when a Context is instantiated with a Config object that hasn't had its Init function called.
paddy@102 13 ErrConfigNotInitialized = errors.New("config not initialized")
paddy@96 14 )
paddy@96 15
paddy@96 16 // Config holds the configuration values necessary to run a server. A Config
paddy@96 17 // instance is the only way to instantiate a Context variable.
paddy@96 18 type Config struct {
paddy@96 19 ClientStore clientStore
paddy@96 20 AuthCodeStore authorizationCodeStore
paddy@96 21 ProfileStore profileStore
paddy@96 22 TokenStore tokenStore
paddy@96 23 SessionStore sessionStore
paddy@134 24 ScopeStore scopeStore
paddy@96 25 Template *template.Template
paddy@96 26 LoginURI string
paddy@168 27 JWTPrivateKey []byte
paddy@96 28 iterations int
paddy@132 29 secureCookie bool
paddy@96 30 }
paddy@101 31
paddy@102 32 // Init is a function that preps the Config object to be used for Context creation, setting variables
paddy@102 33 // that are determined at the beginning of program execution.
paddy@101 34 func (c *Config) Init() error {
paddy@101 35 scheme, ok := passphraseSchemes[CurPassphraseScheme]
paddy@101 36 if !ok {
paddy@101 37 return ErrInvalidPassphraseScheme
paddy@101 38 }
paddy@101 39 var err error
paddy@101 40 c.iterations, err = scheme.calculateIterations()
paddy@101 41 if err != nil {
paddy@101 42 return err
paddy@101 43 }
paddy@101 44 log.Printf("Generating passphrases with %d iterations...\n", c.iterations)
paddy@101 45 return nil
paddy@101 46 }