Пункт 109. Apache Module mod_authnz_fcgi
Description: | Allows a FastCGI authorizer application to handle Apache
httpd authentication and authorization |
Status: | Extension |
Module Identifier: | authnz_fcgi_module |
Source File: | mod_authnz_fcgi.c |
Compatibility: | Available in version 2.4.10 and later |
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Summary
This module allows FastCGI authorizer applications to
authenticate users and authorize access to resources. It supports
generic FastCGI authorizers which participate in a single phase
for authentication and authorization as well as Apache httpd-specific
authenticators and authorizors which participate in one or both
phases.
FastCGI authorizers can authenticate using user id and password,
such as for Basic authentication, or can authenticate using arbitrary
mechanisms.
Invocation modes
The invocation modes for FastCGI authorizers supported by this
module are distinguished by two characteristics, type and
auth mechanism.
Type is simply authn
for authentication,
authz
for authorization, or authnz
for
combined authentication and authorization.
Auth mechanism refers to the Apache httpd configuration
mechanisms and processing phases, and can be
AuthBasicProvider
, Require
, or
check_user_id
. The first two of these
correspond to the directives used to enable participation in the
appropriate processing phase.
Descriptions of each mode:
- Type
authn
, mechanism
AuthBasicProvider
- In this mode,
FCGI_ROLE
is set to AUTHORIZER
and
FCGI_APACHE_ROLE
is set to AUTHENTICATOR
.
The application must be defined as provider type authn
using
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider
and enabled with
AuthBasicProvider
.
When invoked, the application is
expected to authenticate the client using the provided user id and
password. Example application:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use FCGI;
my $request = FCGI::Request();
while ($request->Accept() >= 0) {
die if $ENV{'FCGI_APACHE_ROLE'} ne "AUTHENTICATOR";
die if $ENV{'FCGI_ROLE'} ne "AUTHORIZER";
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'};
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
print STDERR "This text is written to the web server error log.\n";
if ( ($ENV{'REMOTE_USER' } eq "foo" || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} eq "foo1") &&
$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'} eq "bar" ) {
print "Status: 200\n";
print "Variable-AUTHN_1: authn_01\n";
print "Variable-AUTHN_2: authn_02\n";
print "\n";
}
else {
print "Status: 401\n\n";
}
}
Example configuration:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authn FooAuthn fcgi://localhost:10102/
<Location "/protected/">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthBasicProvider FooAuthn
Require ...
</Location>
- Type
authz
, mechanism
Require
- In this mode,
FCGI_ROLE
is set to
AUTHORIZER
and FCGI_APACHE_ROLE
is set to
AUTHORIZER
. The application must be defined as
provider type authz using
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider
. When invoked, the application
is expected to authorize the client using the provided user id and other
request data. Example application:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use FCGI;
my $request = FCGI::Request();
while ($request->Accept() >= 0) {
die if $ENV{'FCGI_APACHE_ROLE'} ne "AUTHORIZER";
die if $ENV{'FCGI_ROLE'} ne "AUTHORIZER";
die if $ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'};
print STDERR "This text is written to the web server error log.\n";
if ($ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} eq "foo1") {
print "Status: 200\n";
print "Variable-AUTHZ_1: authz_01\n";
print "Variable-AUTHZ_2: authz_02\n";
print "\n";
}
else {
print "Status: 403\n\n";
}
}
Example configuration:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authz FooAuthz fcgi://localhost:10103/
<Location "/protected/">
AuthType ...
AuthName ...
AuthBasicProvider ...
Require FooAuthz
</Location>
- Type
authnz
, mechanism
AuthBasicProvider
+ Require
- In this mode, which supports the web server-agnostic FastCGI
AUTHORIZER
protocol, FCGI_ROLE
is set to
AUTHORIZER
and FCGI_APACHE_ROLE
is not set.
The application must be defined as provider type authnz
using
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider
. The application is expected to
handle both authentication and authorization in the same invocation
using the user id, password, and other request data. The invocation
occurs during the Apache httpd API authentication phase. If the
application returns 200 and the same provider is invoked during the
authorization phase (via Require
), mod_authnz_fcgi
will return success for the authorization phase without invoking the
application. Example application:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use FCGI;
my $request = FCGI::Request();
while ($request->Accept() >= 0) {
die if $ENV{'FCGI_APACHE_ROLE'};
die if $ENV{'FCGI_ROLE'} ne "AUTHORIZER";
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'};
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
print STDERR "This text is written to the web server error log.\n";
if ( ($ENV{'REMOTE_USER' } eq "foo" || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} eq "foo1") &&
$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'} eq "bar" &&
$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'} =~ m%/bar/.*%) {
print "Status: 200\n";
print "Variable-AUTHNZ_1: authnz_01\n";
print "Variable-AUTHNZ_2: authnz_02\n";
print "\n";
}
else {
print "Status: 401\n\n";
}
}
Example configuration:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authnz FooAuthnz fcgi://localhost:10103/
<Location "/protected/">
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthBasicProvider FooAuthnz
Require FooAuthnz
</Location>
- Type
authn
, mechanism
check_user_id
- In this mode,
FCGI_ROLE
is set to
AUTHORIZER
and FCGI_APACHE_ROLE
is set to
AUTHENTICATOR
. The application must be defined as
provider type authn using
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider
. AuthnzFcgiCheckAuthnProvider
specifies when it is called. Example application:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use FCGI;
my $request = FCGI::Request();
while ($request->Accept() >= 0) {
die if $ENV{'FCGI_APACHE_ROLE'} ne "AUTHENTICATOR";
die if $ENV{'FCGI_ROLE'} ne "AUTHORIZER";
# This authorizer assumes that the RequireBasicAuth option of
# AuthnzFcgiCheckAuthnProvider is On:
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'};
die if !$ENV{'REMOTE_USER'};
print STDERR "This text is written to the web server error log.\n";
if ( ($ENV{'REMOTE_USER' } eq "foo" || $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'} eq "foo1") &&
$ENV{'REMOTE_PASSWD'} eq "bar" ) {
print "Status: 200\n";
print "Variable-AUTHNZ_1: authnz_01\n";
print "Variable-AUTHNZ_2: authnz_02\n";
print "\n";
}
else {
print "Status: 401\n\n";
# If a response body is written here, it will be returned to
# the client.
}
}
Example configuration:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authn FooAuthn fcgi://localhost:10103/
<Location "/protected/">
AuthType ...
AuthName ...
AuthnzFcgiCheckAuthnProvider FooAuthn \
Authoritative On \
RequireBasicAuth Off \
UserExpr "%{reqenv:REMOTE_USER}"
Require ...
</Location>
Additional examples
- If your application supports the separate authentication and
authorization roles (
AUTHENTICATOR
and AUTHORIZER
), define
separate providers as follows, even if they map to the same
application:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authn FooAuthn fcgi://localhost:10102/
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authz FooAuthz fcgi://localhost:10102/
Specify the authn provider on
AuthBasicProvider
and the authz provider on
Require
:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthBasicProvider FooAuthn
Require FooAuthz
- If your application supports the generic
AUTHORIZER
role
(authentication and authorizer in one invocation), define a
single provider as follows:
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider authnz FooAuthnz fcgi://localhost:10103/
Specify the authnz provider on both AuthBasicProvider
and Require
:
AuthType Basic
AuthName "Restricted"
AuthBasicProvider FooAuthnz
Require FooAuthnz
Limitations
The following are potential features which are not currently
implemented:
- Apache httpd access checker
- The Apache httpd API access check phase is a separate
phase from authentication and authorization. Some other FastCGI
implementations implement this phase, which is denoted by the
setting of
FCGI_APACHE_ROLE
to ACCESS_CHECKER
.
- Local (Unix) sockets or pipes
- Only TCP sockets are currently supported.
- Support for mod_authn_socache
- mod_authn_socache interaction should be implemented for
applications which participate in Apache httpd-style
authentication.
- Support for digest authentication using AuthDigestProvider
- This is expected to be a permanent limitation as there is
no authorizer flow for retrieving a hash.
- Application process management
- This is expected to be permanently out of scope for
this module. Application processes must be controlled by
other means. For example,
fcgistarter
can be used to
start them.
- AP_AUTH_INTERNAL_PER_URI
- All providers are currently registered as
AP_AUTH_INTERNAL_PER_CONF, which means that checks are not
performed again for internal subrequests with the same
access control configuration as the initial request.
- Protocol data charset conversion
- If mod_authnz_fcgi runs in an EBCDIC compilation
environment, all FastCGI protocol data is written in EBCDIC
and expected to be received in EBCDIC.
- Multiple requests per connection
- Currently the connection to the FastCGI authorizer is
closed after every phase of processing. For example, if the
authorizer handles separate authn and authz
phases then two connections will be used.
- URI Mapping
- URIs from clients can't be mapped, such as with the
ProxyPass
used with FastCGI responders.
Logging
- Processing errors are logged at log level
error
and higher.
- Messages written by the application are logged at log
level
warn
.
- General messages for debugging are logged at log level
debug
.
- Environment variables passed to the application are
logged at log level
trace2
. The value of the
REMOTE_PASSWD
variable will be obscured,
but any other sensitive data will be visible in the
log.
- All I/O between the module and the FastCGI application,
including all environment variables, will be logged in printable
and hex format at log level
trace5
. All
sensitive data will be visible in the log.
LogLevel
can be used
to configure a log level specific to mod_authnz_fcgi. For
example:
LogLevel info authnz_fcgi:trace8
AuthnzFcgiCheckAuthnProvider Directive
Description: | Enables a FastCGI application to handle the check_authn
authentication hook. |
Syntax: | AuthnzFcgiCheckAuthnProvider provider-name| None
option ... |
Default: | none |
Context: | directory |
Status: | Extension |
Module: | mod_authnz_fcgi |
This directive is used to enable a FastCGI authorizer to
handle a specific processing phase of authentication or
authorization.
Some capabilities of FastCGI authorizers require enablement
using this directive instead of
AuthBasicProvider
:
- Non-Basic authentication; generally, determining the user
id of the client and returning it from the authorizer; see the
UserExpr
option below
- Selecting a custom response code; for a non-200 response
from the authorizer, the code from the authorizer will be the
status of the response
- Setting the body of a non-200 response; if the authorizer
provides a response body with a non-200 response, that body
will be returned to the client; up to 8192 bytes of text are
supported
- provider-name
- This is the name of a provider defined with
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider
.
-
None
- Specify
None
to disable a provider enabled
with this directive in an outer scope, such as in a parent
directory.
- option
- The following options are supported:
- Authoritative On|Off (default On)
- This controls whether or not other modules are allowed
to run when this module has a FastCGI authorizer configured
and it fails the request.
- DefaultUser userid
- When the authorizer returns success and
UserExpr
is configured and evaluates to an empty string (e.g., authorizer
didn't return a variable), this value will be used as the user
id. This is typically used when the authorizer has a concept of
guest, or unauthenticated, users and guest users are mapped to
some specific user id for logging and other purposes.
- RequireBasicAuth On|Off (default Off)
- This controls whether or not Basic auth is required
before passing the request to the authorizer. If required,
the authorizer won't be invoked without a user id and
password; 401 will be returned for a request without that.
- UserExpr expr (no default)
- When Basic authentication isn't provided by the client
and the authorizer determines the user, this expression,
evaluated after calling the authorizer, determines the
user. The expression follows
ap_expr syntax and must resolve to a string. A typical
use is to reference a
Variable-XXX
setting returned by the authorizer using an option like
UserExpr "%{reqenv:XXX}"
. If
this option is specified and the user id can't be retrieved
using the expression after a successful authentication, the
request will be rejected with a 500 error.
AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider Directive
Description: | Defines a FastCGI application as a provider for
authentication and/or authorization |
Syntax: | AuthnzFcgiDefineProvider type provider-name
backend-address |
Default: | none |
Context: | server config |
Status: | Extension |
Module: | mod_authnz_fcgi |
This directive is used to define a FastCGI application as
a provider for a particular phase of authentication or
authorization.
- type
- This must be set to authn for authentication,
authz for authorization, or authnz for
a generic FastCGI authorizer which performs both checks.
- provider-name
- This is used to assign a name to the provider which is
used in other directives such as
AuthBasicProvider
and
Require
.
- backend-address
- This specifies the address of the application, in the form
fcgi://hostname:port/. The application process(es)
must be managed independently, such as with
fcgistarter
.