X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/b4d1a4bb9906c41da4174356708e157683f0bdd9..e0074b91c7d1a44c468bdbf554cbef07434b7dfe:/doc/bugs/anonok_vs._httpauth.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/anonok_vs._httpauth.mdwn b/doc/bugs/anonok_vs._httpauth.mdwn index 90c8c74c9..bff37e18b 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/anonok_vs._httpauth.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/anonok_vs._httpauth.mdwn @@ -8,3 +8,111 @@ required for those. and a whitelist of OpenIDs in `locked_pages`...) --[[schmonz]] + +> The only way I can see to support this combination is for httpauth with +> cgiauthurl to work more like other actual login types. Which would mean +> that on editing a page that needs authentication, ikiwiki would redirect +> them to the Signin page, which would then have a link they could follow +> to bounce through the cgiauthurl and actually sign in. This would be +> significantly different than the regular httpauth process, in which the +> user signs in in passing. --[[Joey]] + +>> My primary userbase has grown accustomed to the seamlessness of +>> httpauth with SPNEGO, so I'd rather not reintroduce a seam into +>> their web-editing experience in order to let relatively few outsiders +>> edit relatively few pages. When is the decision made about whether +>> the current page can be edited by the current user (if any)? What +>> if there were a way to require particular auth plugins for particular +>> PageSpecs? --[[schmonz]] + +>>> The decision about whether a user can edit a page is made by plugins +>>> such as signinedit and lockedit, that also use canedit hooks to redirect +>>> the user to a signin page if necessary. +>>> +>>> A tweak on my earlier suggestion would be to have httpauth notice when the +>>> Signin page is being built and immediatly redirect to the cgiauthurl +>>> before the page can be shown to the user. This would, though, not play +>>> well with other authentication methods like openid, since the user +>>> would never see the Signin form. --[[Joey]] + +>>>> Would I be able to do what I want with a local plugin that +>>>> abuses canedit (and auth) to reach in and call the appropriate +>>>> plugin's auth method -- e.g., if the page matches */Discussion, +>>>> call `openid:auth()`, else `httpauth:auth()`? --[[schmonz]] + +>>>>> That seems it would be +>>>>> annoying for httpauth users (who were not currently authed), +>>>>> as they would then see the openid signin form when going to edit a +>>>>> Discussion page. +>>>>> --[[Joey]] + +>>>>>> I finally see the problem, I think. When you initially +>>>>>> suggested "a link they could follow to bounce through the +>>>>>> cgiauthurl", presumably this could _be_ the Edit link for +>>>>>> non-Discussion pages, so that the typical case of an httpauth +>>>>>> user editing an editable-only-by-httpauth page doesn't visibly +>>>>>> change. And then the Edit link for Discussion subpages could do +>>>>>> as you suggest, adding one click for the httpauth user, who won't +>>>>>> often need to edit those subpages. --[[schmonz]] + +>> On reflection, I've stopped being bothered by the +>> redirect-to-signin-page approach. (It only needs to happen once per +>> browser session, anyway.) Can we try that? --[[schmonz]] + +Here is an attempt. With this httpauth will only redirect to the +`cgiauth_url` when a page is edited, and it will defer to other plugins +like anonok first. I have not tested this. --[[Joey]] + +
+diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
+index 127c321..a18f8ca 100644
+--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
++++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/httpauth.pm
+@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ use IkiWiki 3.00;
+ sub import {
+ 	hook(type => "getsetup", id => "httpauth", call => \&getsetup);
+ 	hook(type => "auth", id => "httpauth", call => \&auth);
++	hook(type => "canedit", id => "httpauth", call => \&canedit,
++		last => 1);
+ }
+ 
+ sub getsetup () {
+@@ -33,9 +35,21 @@ sub auth ($$) {
+ 	if (defined $cgi->remote_user()) {
+ 		$session->param("name", $cgi->remote_user());
+ 	}
+-	elsif (defined $config{cgiauthurl}) {
+-		IkiWiki::redirect($cgi, $config{cgiauthurl}.'?'.$cgi->query_string());
+-		exit;
++}
++
++sub canedit ($$$) {
++	my $page=shift;
++	my $cgi=shift;
++	my $session=shift;
++
++	if (! defined $cgi->remote_user() && defined $config{cgiauthurl}) {
++		return sub {
++			IkiWiki::redirect($cgi, $config{cgiauthurl}.'?'.$cgi->query_string());
++			exit;
++		};
++	}
++	else {
++		return undef;
+ 	}
+ }
+ 
+
+ +> With `anonok` enabled, this works for anonymous editing of an +> existing Discussion page. auth is still needed to create one. --[[schmonz]] + +>> Refreshed above patch to fix that. --[[Joey]] + +>> Remaining issue: This patch will work with anonok, but not openid or +>> passwordauth, both of which want to display a login page at the same +>> time that httpauth is redirecting to the cgiauthurl. As mentioned above, +>> the only way to deal with that would be to add a link to the signin page +>> that does the httpauth signin. --[[Joey]] + +>>> That's dealt with in final version. [[done]] --[[Joey]]