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+# Authors:
+# Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Red Hat
+# see file 'COPYING' for use and warranty information
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+"""
+Base classes for non-LDAP backend plugins.
+"""
+from ipalib import api
+from ipalib import Command
+from ipalib import errors
+
+class VirtualCommand(Command):
+ """
+ A command that doesn't use the LDAP backend but wants to use the
+ LDAP access control system to make authorization decisions.
+
+ The class variable operation is the commonName attribute of the
+ entry to be tested against.
+
+ In advance, you need to create an entry of the form:
+ cn=<operation>, api.env.container_virtual, api.env.basedn
+
+ Ex.
+ cn=request certificate, cn=virtual operations, dc=example, dc=com
+ """
+ operation = None
+
+ def execute(self, *args, **kw):
+ """
+ Perform the LDAP query to determine authorization.
+
+ This should be executed via super() before any actual work is done.
+ """
+ if self.operation is None:
+ raise errors.ACIError(info='operation not defined')
+
+ ldap = self.api.Backend.ldap
+ self.log.info("IPA: virtual verify %s" % self.operation)
+
+ operationdn = "cn=%s,%s,%s" % (self.operation, self.api.env.container_virtual, self.api.env.basedn)
+
+ # By adding this unknown objectclass we do several things.
+ # DS checks ACIs before the objectclass so we can test for ACI
+ # errors to know if we have rights. If we do have rights then the
+ # update will fail anyway with a Database error because of an
+ # unknown objectclass, so we can catch that gracefully as well.
+ try:
+ updatekw = {'objectclass': ['somerandomunknownclass']}
+ ldap.update(operationdn, **updatekw)
+ except errors.ACIError, e:
+ self.log.debug("%s" % str(e))
+ raise errors.ACIError(info='not allowed to perform this command')
+ except errors.DatabaseError:
+ return
+ except Exception, e:
+ # Something unexpected happened. Log it and deny access to be safe.
+ self.log.info("Virtual verify failed: %s" % str(e))
+ raise errors.ACIError(info='not allowed to perform this command')