On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Michael Ferjancic <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I have to admit that i am fairly new to this topic, especially new to erlang. > Currently i am trying to play around with the various authentication handlers > - goal is to have a working "delegated authentication" on facebook, twitter > and such. > > 1) as far as i understood the oAuth implementation of couchdb is just the > opposite i need - you can use that to create tokens for couch-users, but not > to accept twitter accessTokens/secrets and map that to a couch user > 2) i found exactly what i need in datacouch - authentication against twitter > with nodejs, and after that getting the plaintext password from a private > couch and use it with _session-API to create a couch cookie. > 3) i modified the sample a little bit and used everyauth to handle the > delegated authentication. I map the userinfos i get from facebook etc. > against user profiles in a private db, which also contains the user passwords > (unfortunately still in plaintext). Works perfectly, but..... > > Now i am trying to avoid storing the plaintext passwords. I heard about to > use proxy_authentification_handler, but it seems i am too stupid to use it. I > made the (as far as i understood) correct entries in couch_httpd_auth > > couch_httpd_auth auth_cache_size > 50 > x > authentication_db > _users > x > authentication_redirect > /_utils/session.html > x > require_valid_user > false > x > secret > xxxxxxxxxxxx > x > timeout > 43200 > x > x_auth_roles > roles > x > x_auth_token > token > x > x_auth_username > uname > > > and also in httpd > httpd allow_jsonp > true > x > authentication_handlers > {couch_httpd_auth, proxy_authentification_handler},{couch_httpd_auth, > cookie_authentication_handler}, {couch_httpd_auth, > default_authentication_handler} > x > bind_address > 127.0.0.1 > x > default_handler > {couch_httpd_db, handle_request} > x > port > 5984 > x > secure_rewrites > false > x > vhost_global_handlers > _utils, _uuids, _session, _oauth, _users > > When i now do a GET on > http://localhost:5984/_utils/config.html?uname=user1&roles=user that seems to > doesn't lead to anything... > > Anybody ever got that thing running? Am i missing something? Or is there any > chance to implement a custom authentication handler without coding erlang? > > Thanks for your help > Michael >
The proxy_oauth_header is simply a way to pass the credentials of a user from your app to couchdb. Tou do that by passing specific headers to CouchDB and the handler create the userCtx. Headers name can be defined in local.ini. By thefault they are : * X-Auth-CouchDB-UserName : contain the username, (x_auth_username in couch_httpd_auth section) * X-Auth-CouchDB-Roles : contain the user roles, list of roles separated by a comma (x_auth_roles in couch_httpd_auth section) * X-Auth-CouchDB-Token : token to authenticate the authorization (x_auth_token in couch_httpd_auth section). This token is an hmac-sha1 created from secret key and username. The secret key should be the same in the client and couchdb node. s ecret key is the secret key in couch_httpd_auth section of ini. This token is optional if value of the proxy_use_secret key in couch_httpd_auth section of ini isn't true. Hope it helps. - benoît
