Hi,

I would not start with Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible - it has lots of stuff you do not need in your use case - but start with an empty plugin. It's really quite simple, you need just one function (beware, untested code!):

package Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::SSLVerify;

use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

use Dancer2::Plugin;

sub require_ssl_verified {
    my $dsl     = shift;
    my $coderef = shift;
    return sub {
        my $app     = $dsl->app;
        my $request = $app->request;
        my $session = $app->session;

        my $client_verify = $request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY'} // '';
        my $username = $request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_EMAIL'} // '';
        if ($client_verify eq 'SUCCESS' and $username) {
            $session->set( logged_in_user => $username );
            return $coderef->($dsl);
        } else {
            return $dsl->redirect( '/not_authorized' ); # or something
        }
    };


}

register 'require_ssl_verified' => \&require_ssl_verified;
register_plugin;

1;


Then, you can use this plugin in your route definitions:


use Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::SSLVerify;

get '/whatever' => require_ssl_verified sub {
    # your route logic here.

};


Hope this helps.

Regards,
Lennart


On 12-11-17 17:09, perlduck wrote:
Hello,

TL;DR

I'd like to write an authentication plugin that behaves like Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible but does NOT require a user's password but instead relies on the SSL variables SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY and SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email.


Background:

I have a Dancer2 application and currently using Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible to authenticate my users with username/password. I'm currently using two providers (realms), Config and Database. Config is mainly for testing purpose but I like the idea of multiple realms. I also need the concept of roles, so DPAE is just great and everything works like a charm.

Now I want to switch to client certificate authentication. I have set up an Apache as a proxy to the plackup server. Apache handles the SSL stuff, sets the variables

  <Location />
    RequestHeader set SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY "%{SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY}s"
    RequestHeader set SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email "%{SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_Email}s"
  </Location>

and then redirects to my Dancer2 app (at 127.0.0.1:5000).

Within my routes I can access those variables with

  my $client_verify = request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY'} // '';
  my $username = request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_EMAIL'} // '';

This works. Apache sets HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY to 'SUCCESS' if the authentication worked. What I now want to achieve is:

    IFF $client_verify eq 'SUCCESS' THEN let the user $username in.

Don't show a /login page. Pick the user's details from the database (or whatever realm(s) is/are configured). Don't show a /logout page.

In short: allow everything what Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible allows but without ever asking for a password or redirecting to a /login page if the two variables are set (and, of course, $username can be found in the DB).

A very naive first approach was to use a "before" hook to set the "logged_in_user" value:

  hook before => sub {
      my $client_verify = request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_VERIFY'} // '';
      my $username = request->env->{'HTTP_SSL_CLIENT_S_DN_EMAIL'} // '';
      if ($client_verify eq 'SUCCESS' and $username) {
          session logged_in_user => $username;
      }
  };

This seems to work but looks very dirty to me. So I thought I'd better write a plugin that behaves like a Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible plugin but doesn't require a password and rather uses the two environment variables instead.

Is Dancer2::Plugin::Auth::Extensible even the right place (base) for such a plugin?

Cheers

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