# Apache::Authen::Program allows you to call an external program # that performs username/password authentication in Apache. # # Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Mark Leighton Fisher, Fisher's Creek Consulting, LLC # # This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. package Apache::Authen::Program; use strict; use Apache::Constants ':common'; use File::Temp q(tempfile); $Apache::Authen::Program::VERSION = '0.93'; sub handler { my $request = shift; # Apache request object my @args = (); # authentication program arguments my $cmd = ""; # program command string my $i = 0; # counter for @args my $ofh = ""; # output file handle for password temp file my $password = ""; # password from Basic Authentication my $passfile = ""; # temporary file containing password my $passtype = ""; # "File" if communicating password by temp file my $program = ""; # authentication program filename my $response = ""; # Apache response object my $success = ""; # success string from authentication program my $username = ""; # username from Basic Authentication # get password, decline if not Basic Authentication ($response, $password) = $request->get_basic_auth_pw; return $response if $response; # get username $username = $request->connection->user; if ($username eq "") { $request->note_basic_auth_failure; $request->log_reason("Apache::Authen::Program - No Username Given", $request->uri); return AUTH_REQUIRED; } # get authentication program, args, and success string $program = $request->dir_config("AuthenProgram"); for ($i = 1; $i < 10; $i++) { $args[$i] = $request->dir_config("AuthenProgramArg$i"); } $success = $request->dir_config("AuthenProgramSuccess"); # write temp. password file on request $passtype = $request->dir_config("AuthenProgramPassword"); if ($passtype eq "File") { ($ofh, $passfile) = tempfile(); if (!defined($ofh) || $ofh eq "") { $request->log_reason("Apache::Authen::Program can't create password file", $request->uri); return SERVER_ERROR; } chmod(0600, $passfile) || $request->log_reason( "Apache::Authen::Program can't chmod 0600 password file '$passfile' because: $!", $request->uri); if (!print $ofh $password,"\n") { $request->log_reason("Apache::Authen::Program can't write password file '$ofh'", $request->uri); return SERVER_ERROR; } if (!close($ofh)) { $request->log_reason("Apache::Authen::Program can't close password file '$ofh'", $request->uri); return SERVER_ERROR; } $password = $passfile; } # execute command, then examine output for success or failure $cmd = "$program '$username' '$password' "; $cmd .= join(' ', @args); my @output = `$cmd`; if ($passtype eq "File") { if (!unlink($passfile)) { $request->log_reason("Apache::Authen::Program can't delete password file '$ofh'", $request->uri); } } if (!grep(/$success/, @output)) { $request->note_basic_auth_failure; $request->log_reason("login failure: " . join(' ', @output), $request->uri); return AUTH_REQUIRED; } unless (@{ $request->get_handlers("PerlAuthzHandler") || []}) { $request->push_handlers(PerlAuthzHandler => \&authz); } return OK; } sub authz { my $request = shift; # Apache request my $requires = $request->requires; # Apache Requires arrayref my $username # username = $request->connection->user; my $require = ""; # one Requires statement my $type = ""; # type of Requires my @users = (); # list of valid users # decline unless we have a requires return OK unless $requires; # process each Requires statement for my $require (@$requires) { my($type, @users) = split /\s+/, $require->{requirement}; # user is one of these users if ($type eq "user") { return OK if grep($username eq $_, @users); # user is simply authenticated } elsif ($type eq "valid-user") { return OK; } } $request->note_basic_auth_failure; $request->log_reason("user $username: not authorized", $request->uri); return AUTH_REQUIRED; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Apache::Authen::Program - mod_perl external program authentication module =head1 SYNOPSIS # This is the standard authentication stuff AuthName "Foo Bar Authentication" AuthType Basic # Variables you need to set PerlSetVar AuthenProgram /usr/local/Samba-2.2.3a/bin/smbclient PerlSetVar AuthenProgramSuccess "OK: SMB login succeeded" # other variables needed by AuthenProgram (up to 9 supported) PerlSetVar AuthenProgramArg1 thompdc4 PerlSetVar AuthenProgramArg2 netlogon PerlAuthenHandler Apache::Authen::Program # Standard require stuff, only user and # valid-user work currently require valid-user These directives can be used in a .htaccess file as well. If you wish to use your own PerlAuthzHandler then the require directive should follow whatever handler you use. = head1 DESCRIPTION This mod_perl module provides a reasonably general mechanism to perform username/password authentication in Apache by calling an external program. Authentication by an external program is useful when a program can perform an authentication not supported by any Apache modules (for example, cross-domain authentication is not supported by Apache::NTLM or Apache::AuthenSmb, but is supported by Samba's smbclient program). You must define the program pathname AuthenProgram and the standard output success string AuthenProgramSuccess. The first two arguments to the program are the username and either the password or a temporary file with the password, depending on whether AuthenProgramPassword has the value "File". "File" forces sending the password to AuthenProgram through a temporary file to avoid placing passwords on the command line where they can be seen by ps(1). Additional program arguments can be passed in the variables AuthenProgramArg1, AuthenProgramArg2, etc. Up to 9 of these variables are supported. The examples/ subdirectory has sample programs for doing Samba-based SMB authentication (examples/smblogon), Oracle authentication (examples/oralogon), and a simple example (examples/filelogon) that demonstrates communicating the password through a temporary file. If you are using this module please let me know, I'm curious how many people there are that need this type of functionality. This module was adapted from Apache::AuthenSmb. =head1 DESIGN NOTES This module trades off speed for flexibility -- it is not recommended for use when you need to process lots of authentications/minute, as each authentication requires a fork(). As any program can be used for the authenticator (even programs you don't have the source for), this module does give you great flexibility (as said before, at the expense of sub-maximal speed). =head1 AUTHOR Mark Leighton Fisher =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2002-2004 Mark Leighton Fisher, Fisher's Creek Consulting, LLC. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut