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Wt::Auth::AuthService Class Reference

Basic authentication service. More...

#include <Wt/Auth/AuthService.h>

Public Member Functions

 AuthService ()
 Constructor.
 
virtual ~AuthService ()
 Destructor.
 
void setRandomTokenLength (int length)
 Sets the token length. More...
 
int randomTokenLength () const
 Returns the token length. More...
 
void setIdentityPolicy (IdentityPolicy policy)
 Configures the identity policy. More...
 
IdentityPolicy identityPolicy () const
 Returns the identity policy. More...
 
virtual User identifyUser (const Identity &identity, AbstractUserDatabase &users) const
 Tries to match the identity to an existing user. More...
 
Authentication token support
void setAuthTokensEnabled (bool enabled, const std::string &cookieName="wtauth", const std::string &cookieDomain=std::string())
 Configures authentication token support. More...
 
bool authTokensEnabled () const
 Returns whether authentication tokens are enabled. More...
 
void setAuthTokenUpdateEnabled (bool enabled)
 Set whether processAuthToken() updates the auth token. More...
 
bool authTokenUpdateEnabled () const
 Returns whether the auth token is updated. More...
 
std::string authTokenCookieName () const
 Returns the authentication token cookie name. More...
 
std::string authTokenCookieDomain () const
 Returns the authentication token cookie domain. More...
 
void setTokenHashFunction (std::unique_ptr< HashFunction > function)
 Sets the token hash function. More...
 
HashFunctiontokenHashFunction () const
 Returns the token hash function. More...
 
std::string createAuthToken (const User &user) const
 Creates and stores an authentication token for the user. More...
 
virtual AuthTokenResult processAuthToken (const std::string &token, AbstractUserDatabase &users) const
 Processes an authentication token. More...
 
void setAuthTokenValidity (int minutes)
 Configures the duration for an authenticaton to remain valid. More...
 
int authTokenValidity () const
 Returns the authentication token validity. More...
 
Email verification
void setEmailVerificationEnabled (bool enabled)
 Configures email verification. More...
 
bool emailVerificationEnabled () const
 Returns whether email verification is configured. More...
 
void setEmailVerificationRequired (bool enabled)
 Configure email verificiation to be required for login. More...
 
bool emailVerificationRequired () const
 
void setEmailRedirectInternalPath (const std::string &internalPath)
 Sets the internal path used to present tokens in emails. More...
 
std::string emailRedirectInternalPath () const
 Returns the internal path used for email tokens. More...
 
virtual std::string parseEmailToken (const std::string &internalPath) const
 Parses the emailtoken from an internal path. More...
 
virtual void verifyEmailAddress (const User &user, const std::string &emailAddress) const
 Verifies an email address. More...
 
virtual void lostPassword (const std::string &emailAddress, AbstractUserDatabase &users) const
 Implements lost password functionality. More...
 
virtual EmailTokenResult processEmailToken (const std::string &token, AbstractUserDatabase &users) const
 Processes an email token. More...
 
void setEmailTokenValidity (int minutes)
 Configures the duration for an email token to remain valid. More...
 
int emailTokenValidity () const
 Returns the duration for an email token to remain valid. More...
 
virtual void sendMail (const Mail::Message &message) const
 Sends an email. More...
 

Protected Member Functions

virtual void sendConfirmMail (const std::string &address, const User &user, const std::string &token) const
 Sends a confirmation email to the user to verify his email address. More...
 
virtual void sendLostPasswordMail (const std::string &address, const User &user, const std::string &token) const
 Sends an email to the user to enter a new password. More...
 

Detailed Description

Basic authentication service.

This class presents an basic authentication service, which offers authentication functionality that is not specific to an authentication mechanism (such as password authentication or OAuth authentication).

Like all service classes, this class holds only configuration state. Thus, once configured, it can be safely shared between multiple sessions since its state (the configuration) is read-only. A "const AuthService" object is thus thread-safe.

The class provides the following services (and relevant configuration):

Member Function Documentation

◆ authTokenCookieDomain()

std::string Wt::Auth::AuthService::authTokenCookieDomain ( ) const

Returns the authentication token cookie domain.

This is the domain used for the authentication cookie. By default this is empty, which means that a cookie will be set for this application.

You may want to set a more general domain if you are sharing the authentication with multiple applications.

See also
setAuthTokensEnabled()

◆ authTokenCookieName()

std::string Wt::Auth::AuthService::authTokenCookieName ( ) const

Returns the authentication token cookie name.

This is the default cookie name used for storing the authentication token in the user's browser.

See also
setAuthTokensEnabled()

◆ authTokensEnabled()

bool Wt::Auth::AuthService::authTokensEnabled ( ) const

Returns whether authentication tokens are enabled.

See also
setAuthTokensEnabled()

◆ authTokenUpdateEnabled()

bool Wt::Auth::AuthService::authTokenUpdateEnabled ( ) const

Returns whether the auth token is updated.

See also
setAuthTokenUpdateEnabled()

◆ authTokenValidity()

int Wt::Auth::AuthService::authTokenValidity ( ) const

Returns the authentication token validity.

See also
setAuthTokenValidity()

◆ createAuthToken()

std::string Wt::Auth::AuthService::createAuthToken ( const User user) const

Creates and stores an authentication token for the user.

This creates and stores a new authentication token for the given user.

The returned value is the token that may be used to re-identify the user in processAuthToken().

◆ emailRedirectInternalPath()

std::string Wt::Auth::AuthService::emailRedirectInternalPath ( ) const

Returns the internal path used for email tokens.

See also
setEmailRedirectInternalPath()

◆ emailTokenValidity()

int Wt::Auth::AuthService::emailTokenValidity ( ) const

Returns the duration for an email token to remain valid.

See also
setEmailTokenValidity()

◆ emailVerificationEnabled()

bool Wt::Auth::AuthService::emailVerificationEnabled ( ) const

Returns whether email verification is configured.

See also
setEmailVerificationEnabled()

◆ emailVerificationRequired()

bool Wt::Auth::AuthService::emailVerificationRequired ( ) const

\ Returns whether email verification is required for login.

See also
setEmailVerificationRequired()

◆ identifyUser()

User Wt::Auth::AuthService::identifyUser ( const Identity identity,
AbstractUserDatabase users 
) const
virtual

Tries to match the identity to an existing user.

When authenticating using a 3rd party Identity Provider, the identity is matched against the existing users, based on the id (with AbstractUserDatabase::findWithIdentity()), or if not matched, based on whether there is a user with the same verified email address as the one indicated by the identity.

◆ identityPolicy()

IdentityPolicy Wt::Auth::AuthService::identityPolicy ( ) const

Returns the identity policy.

See also
setIdentityPolicy()

◆ lostPassword()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::lostPassword ( const std::string &  emailAddress,
AbstractUserDatabase users 
) const
virtual

Implements lost password functionality.

If email address verification is enabled, then a user may recover his password (or rather, chose a new password) using a procedure which involves sending an email to a verified email address.

This method triggers this process, starting from an email address, if this email address corresponds to a verified email address in the database. The current password is not invalidated.

See also
processEmailToken()

◆ parseEmailToken()

std::string Wt::Auth::AuthService::parseEmailToken ( const std::string &  internalPath) const
virtual

Parses the emailtoken from an internal path.

This method parses an internal path and if it matches the email redirection path, it returns the token contained.

It returns an empty string if the internal path does not contain an email token.

◆ processAuthToken()

AuthTokenResult Wt::Auth::AuthService::processAuthToken ( const std::string &  token,
AbstractUserDatabase users 
) const
virtual

Processes an authentication token.

This verifies an authentication token, and considers whether it matches with a token hash value stored in database. If it matches and auth token update is enabled, the token is updated with a new hash.

See also
setAuthTokenUpdateEnabled()
AbstractUserDatabase::updateAuthToken()

◆ processEmailToken()

EmailTokenResult Wt::Auth::AuthService::processEmailToken ( const std::string &  token,
AbstractUserDatabase users 
) const
virtual

Processes an email token.

This processes a token received through an email. If it is an email verification token, the token is removed from the database.

This may return two successful results:

Note
Since Wt 4.3.0, the behavior of this function changed. The lost password token is no longer removed by processEmailToken(). Instead, it is now removed in User::setPassword().
See also
verifyEmailAddress()
lostPassword()

◆ randomTokenLength()

int Wt::Auth::AuthService::randomTokenLength ( ) const

Returns the token length.

See also
setRandomTokenLength()

◆ sendConfirmMail()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::sendConfirmMail ( const std::string &  address,
const User user,
const std::string &  token 
) const
protectedvirtual

Sends a confirmation email to the user to verify his email address.

Sends a confirmation email to the given address.

The email content is provided by the following string keys:

  • subject: tr("Wt.auth.verification-mail.subject")
  • body: tr("Wt.auth.verification-mail.body") with {1} a place holder for the identity, and {2} a placeholder for the redirection URL.
  • HTML body: tr("Wt.auth.verification-mail.htmlbody") with the same place holders.

◆ sendLostPasswordMail()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::sendLostPasswordMail ( const std::string &  address,
const User user,
const std::string &  token 
) const
protectedvirtual

Sends an email to the user to enter a new password.

This sends a lost password email to the given address, with a given token.

The default implementation will call sendMail() with the following message:

  • tr("Wt.Auth.lost-password-mail.subject") as subject,
  • tr("Wt.Auth.lost-password-mail.body") as body to which it passes user.identity() and token as arguments.
  • tr("Wt.Auth.lost-password-mail.htmlbody") as HTML body to which it passes user.identity() and token as arguments.

◆ sendMail()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::sendMail ( const Mail::Message message) const
virtual

Sends an email.

Sends an email to the given address with subject and body.

The default implementation will consult configuration properties to add a sender address if it hasn't already been set:

  • "auth-mail-sender-name": the sender name, with default value "Wt Auth module"
  • "auth-mail-sender-address": the sender email address, with default value "noreply-auth@www.webtoolkit.eu"

Then it uses Mail::Client to send the message, using default the default client settings.

◆ setAuthTokensEnabled()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setAuthTokensEnabled ( bool  enabled,
const std::string &  cookieName = "wtauth",
const std::string &  cookieDomain = std::string() 
)

Configures authentication token support.

This method allows you to configure whether authentication tokens are in use. Authentication tokens are used for the user to bypass a more elaborate authentication method, and are a secret shared with the user's user agent, usually in a cookie. They are typically presented in the user interfaces as a "remember me" option.

Whenever a valid authentication token is presented in processToken(), it is invalidated a new token is generated and stored for the user.

The tokens are generated and subsequently hashed using the token hash function. Only the hash values are stored in the user database so that a compromised user database does not compromise these tokens.

Authentication tokens are disabled by default.

See also
setTokenHashFunction(), setAuthTokenValidity()

◆ setAuthTokenUpdateEnabled()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setAuthTokenUpdateEnabled ( bool  enabled)

Set whether processAuthToken() updates the auth token.

If this option is enabled, processAuthToken() will replace the auth token with a new token. This is a bit more secure, because an auth token can only be used once. This is enabled by default.

However, this means that if a user concurrently opens multiple sessions within the same browsers (e.g. multiple tabs being restored at the same time) or refreshes before they receive the new cookie, the user will be logged out, unless the AbstractUserDatabase implementation takes this into account (e.g. keeps the old token valid for a little bit longer)

The default Dbo UserDatabase does not handle concurrent token updates well, so disable this option if you want to prevent that issue.

See also
processAuthToken()
authTokenUpdateEnabled()

◆ setAuthTokenValidity()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setAuthTokenValidity ( int  minutes)

Configures the duration for an authenticaton to remain valid.

The default duration is two weeks (14 * 24 * 60 minutes).

◆ setEmailRedirectInternalPath()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setEmailRedirectInternalPath ( const std::string &  internalPath)

Sets the internal path used to present tokens in emails.

The default path is "/auth/mail/".

◆ setEmailTokenValidity()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setEmailTokenValidity ( int  minutes)

Configures the duration for an email token to remain valid.

The default duration is three days (3 * 24 * 60 minutes). Three is a divine number.

◆ setEmailVerificationEnabled()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setEmailVerificationEnabled ( bool  enabled)

Configures email verification.

Email verification is useful for a user to recover a lost password, or to be able to confidently confirm other events with this user (such as order processing).

◆ setEmailVerificationRequired()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setEmailVerificationRequired ( bool  enabled)

Configure email verificiation to be required for login.

When enabled, a user will not be able to login if the email-address was not verified.

◆ setIdentityPolicy()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setIdentityPolicy ( IdentityPolicy  policy)

Configures the identity policy.

The identity policy has an impact on the login and registration procedure.

◆ setRandomTokenLength()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setRandomTokenLength ( int  length)

Sets the token length.

Configures the length used for random tokens. Random tokens are generated for authentication tokens, and email tokens.

The default length is 32 characters.

See also
WRandom::generateId()

◆ setTokenHashFunction()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::setTokenHashFunction ( std::unique_ptr< HashFunction function)

Sets the token hash function.

Sets the hash function used to safely store authentication tokens in the database. Ownership of the hash function is transferred.

The default token hash function is an MD5HashFunction.

◆ tokenHashFunction()

HashFunction * Wt::Auth::AuthService::tokenHashFunction ( ) const

Returns the token hash function.

See also
setTokenHashFunction()

◆ verifyEmailAddress()

void Wt::Auth::AuthService::verifyEmailAddress ( const User user,
const std::string &  emailAddress 
) const
virtual

Verifies an email address.

This registers a new email token with the user.

Then it sends an email to the user's unverified email address with instructions that redirect him to this site, using sendConfirmEmail().

See also
processEmailToken()