Ok, so should I write a regex that matches that broader pattern, and
only allow sudorules users to be added that follow those broader
restrictions?
On 05/28/2015 02:09 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 05/28/2015 04:27 PM, Drew Erny wrote:
In the ticket, however, it's stated that if the user wants to use any
combination of weird characters, they should be able to. Would it be
better to
just define a function like
def validate_username(username, ignore_pattern=False):
and have it ignore all username validation?
Tough question. FreeIPA in general tries to sanitize user input and
does not
allow everything user wants and try to advise the best practices, as
we see it.
In your case, if we allow only the 2 mentioned user login formats, it
should
work for AD use case just fine and add some level of sanity check of
the user
name. BTW, given we run an LDAP search later on this user name, isn't
there a
possibility of "LDAP injection" if we choose to allow all characters,
including
"(" and ")"? :-)
In any case, if we choose to ignore the pattern, we do not need the
extra
validator function at all. We would just skip validation in the pre
callback if
a user is being added.
I still think we should run the validator exactly for the reasons
outlined above. There are few limiting factors for Active Directory and
Linux environments -- while user and group objects names are specified
in 'cn' attirbute in Active Directory, in POSIX environment we get the
real name from sAMAccountName attribute for users:
* Certain characters in the Relative Distinguished Names of objects must
be escaped using the backslash, "\", escape character. The characters
that must be escaped are:
, \ # + < > ; " =
In addition, any leading or trailing spaces in the RDN must be escaped.
* The following characters are not allowed in sAMAccountName values:
" [ ] : ; | = + * ? < > / \ ,
* In Windows Server 2003 domains and above, if you do not assign a
value for sAMAccountName, the system will create a semi-random value for
your. This value will be similar to:
$KJK000-H4GJL6AQOV1I
* The schema allows 256 characters in sAMAccountName values. However,
the system limits sAMAccountName to 20 characters for user and group
objects and
16 characters for computer objects.
As you can see, group names may have "(" and ")", also "!" and few more
characters which you have to escape properly before making them part of
the LDAP filter.
Additionally, we actually have to allow UTF-8 characters, not just
ASCII as syntax for DirectoryString (OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15)
requires that.
On 05/28/2015 09:40 AM, Drew Erny wrote:
OK, I see now what you mean by that. That is a simpler solution.
I'll do it
that way.
On 05/28/2015 04:44 AM, Martin Kosek wrote:
On 05/27/2015 08:41 PM, Drew Erny wrote:
Hey, Freeipa-devel,
I'm working on ticket #3226
(https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3226)
I've identified the problem. The sudorules add user command adds
the user
validations at the end of it's pre-callback using
add_external_pre_callback.
However, the "user" plugin pattern-matches a string for the "uid"
param,
because it only allows certain characters.
I've been picking through the codebase and I think I have enough
understanding
to ask this: What if we changed the user "uid" validation to a
standalone
"rule" function (you can do that, right? pass in a function as a
validation
rule?) that would normally just assert that the pattern matches,
but could
have
that pattern matching validation overridden in some cases. I
think that's the
easiest, cleanest way to change user so that sudorules and other
plugins can
ignore this validation if necessary (I'm trying to figure out
exactly how to
implement this without changing any APIs).
Am I understanding the plugin params API correctly, and can I do
this? Is this
the best way to do this?
The only other solution I see is to write sudorules-specific code
in some
plugin-related (either user.py or baseldap.py module, which would
create
unwanted coupling.
Most specifically, this would be a change to the object
instantiated at
ipalib/plugins/user.py line 467
Thoughts and suggestions?
I think it would make sense to follow the example with
validate_hostname and
prepare a function validate_username(username, upn=False,
netbios_name=False) [1].
where upn would allow using "@." on top of current validator (i.e.
u...@domain.test) and netbios_name would allow the "DOMAIN\user"
style. I would
just suggest making sure the standard user validation error
message is still
the same to avoid unnecessary QE fail positives.
In add_external_pre_callback you could then just simply call
validate_username(user, True, True)
just like it is already done with hostname.
My 2 cents.
Martin
[1]
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa380525(v=vs.85).aspx
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