when a user enters their 2FA code, the API will store a random UUID
against them in the database - this code is then stored on the cookie
on the front end.
At the beginning of each authenticated request, we do the following
steps:
* Retrieve the user's cookie, and get the user_id from it
* Request that user's details from the database
* populate current_user with the DB model
* run the login_required decorator, which calls
current_user.is_authenticated
is_authenticated now also checks that the database model matches the
cookie for session_id. The potential states and meanings are as follows:
database | cookie | meaning
----------+--------+---------
None | None | New user, or system just been deployed.
| | Redirect to start page.
----------+--------+---------
'abc' | None | New browser (or cleared cookies). Redirect to
| | start page.
----------+--------+---------
None | 'abc' | Invalid state (cookie is set from user obj, so
| | would only happen if DB is cleared)
----------+--------+---------
'abc' | 'abc' | Same browser. Business as usual
----------+--------+---------
'abc' | 'def' | Different browser in cookie - db has been changed
| | since then. Redirect to start
> Users that allow their session to expire, or access a bookmarked link
> are told they need to "Sign in to access this page" - we should
> explain that it's because they've been away a while, so that they
> understand why they're being asked to log in again.
– https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/140016919
The message we were showing before (Please log in to access this page is
the default message from Flask Login).
In order to stop this flash message from appearing, we need to override
the default handler for when a user is unauthorised. We’re overriding it
with the same behaviour, minus the flash message.
If you navigate deliberately to the sign in page it’s unchanged.
Content is Sheryll-approved.
* all current invocations of get_services now call get_active_services
EXCEPT for platform admin page (where we want to see inactive services
* cleaned up parameter names and unpacking (since *params is unhelpful)
* fixed incorrect kwarg name in conftest
This PR changes the flow to change an email address.
Once the user enter their password, they are told "Check your email".
An email has been sent to them containing a link to notify which contains an encrypted token.
The encrypted token contains the user id and new email address. Once the link is clicked the user's email address is updated to the new email address.
They are redirected to the /user-profile page.
Also in this commit is an update from flask.ext.login to flask_login.
when visited sends sms code for second step of account verification.
At that second step user enters just sms code sent to users mobile
number.
Also moved dao calls that simply proxied calls to client to calling
client directly.
There is still a place where a user will be a sent a code for
verification to their email namely if they update email address.
The codes are hashed and saved to the db.
The code is marked as used once a valid code is submitted.
The code is valid for 1 hour.
The codes are no longer saved to the session.
