Name

su —

ATTRIBUTES

Attribute Pos. Req. Default Description
username | user
profile
admin
create_user
exit
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DESCRIPTION

BEHAVIOR

This tag does not appear to be affected by, or affect, the rest of Interchange.

EXAMPLES

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NOTES

AVAILABILITY

su is available in Interchange versions:

4.6.0-5.9.0 (git-head)

SOURCE

Interchange 5.9.0:

Source: code/UI_Tag/su.coretag
Lines: 188


# Copyright 2002-2007 Interchange Development Group and others
# 
# 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; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.  See the LICENSE file for details.
# 
# $Id: su.coretag,v 1.8 2007-03-30 23:40:54 pajamian Exp $

UserTag su Description  Switch User Tag for catalog superuser
UserTag su Order        username
UserTag su attrAlias    user username
UserTag su addAttr
UserTag su Version      $Revision: 1.8 $
UserTag su Routine      <<EOR
sub {
my ($user, $opt) = @_;
use vars qw/$Session $Tag $ready_safe $Scratch/;

# Note: If adding any new %$opt keys, make sure to also add them to
# the list of options to be stripped before passing the remainder
# to tag userdb; search below for $new_user.

$opt->{profile} = 'ui'     if $opt->{admin} and ! $opt->{profile};

my $u;
if($opt->{profile}) {
  $u = $Vend::Cfg->{UserDB_repository}{$opt->{profile}};
}
else {
  $u = $Vend::Cfg->{UserDB};
}

if(! $u) {
  my $place = $opt->{profile} || 'default';
  ::logError("Can't find UserDB repository, profile '%s'", $place);
  return undef;
}
my $table  = $u->{database} || 'userdb';
my $ufield = $u->{user_field} || 'username';
my $going_to_admin = $u->{admin} || $opt->{admin};
#::logDebug("user table=$table ufield=$ufield");

if ($opt->{create_user}) {
  # these settings must be done before any access to the table
  $Vend::WriteDatabase{$table} = 1;
}

my $super  = $Tag->if_mm('super');
my $former = $Vend::username;

if($user and $going_to_admin and ! $super) {
  ::logError("attempt to su to admin user %s by non-super user %s",
          $user,
          $former,
        );
  return undef;
}
elsif($user and ! $Vend::admin) {
  ::logError("attempt to su to user %s by non-admin user %s",
          $user,
          $former,
        );
  return undef;
}

my $dir = "$Global::ConfDir/tmp";
if (! -d $dir) {
  if(-e $dir) {
    logGlobal("Global tmp directory exists as file, aborting su");
    return undef;
  }
  File::Path::mkpath($dir);
}

if($opt->{exit}) {
  if(! $Session->{su}) {
    logError("attempt to return to superuser without saved session.");
    return;
  }
  my $string = delete $Session->{su};
  my $key = $Tag->read_cookie({ name => 'MV_SU_KEY'})
    or do {
      logError("no session key in cookie, cannot exit");
      return;
    };
  my $fn = "$dir/$Session->{id}";
  open(MDCHECK, "< $fn")
    or do {
      logError("no saved session key in %s, cannot exit", $fn);
      return;
    };
  my $rand = <MDCHECK>;
  close MDCHECK;
  if(generate_key($rand . $string) ne $key) {
    logError("mismatched session key with saved session, cannot exit");
    return;
  }

  my $former = $Session->{username};
  ## Authenticated
  undef $Vend::Session;
  undef $Session;
  $Vend::Session = $ready_safe->reval($string);
  $Session = $Vend::Session;
  delete $Session->{su};
  $Vend::admin = $Vend::Session->{admin};
  $Vend::username = $Vend::Session->{username};
  $Tag->if_mm('logged_in')
    and logError(
        "Admin user %s returned from login as %s",
        $Session->{username},
        $former,
      )
    and return 1;
  return;
}
elsif ($user) {
  my $new_user;
  if(! $Tag->data($table, $ufield, $user) ) {
    if ($opt->{create_user}) {
      $new_user = 1;
    }
    else {
      $Scratch->{ui_error} = errmsg("attempt to su to non-existent user %s", $user);
      return undef;
    }
  }

  my $rand  = random_string();
  my $sess  = uneval_it($Session);
#::logDebug("sess is $sess");
  my $sesskey  = generate_key($rand . $sess);

  open(MDIT, "> $dir/$Session->{id}")
    or die errmsg("Can't create check file for su: %s\n", $!);
  print MDIT $rand;
  close MDIT;
  $Tag->set_cookie( { name => 'MV_SU_KEY', value => $sesskey } );
  my $former = $Session->{username};

  undef $Vend::admin;
  undef $Vend::superuser;
  undef $Vend::UI_entry;

  Vend::Session::init_session();
  $Session = $Vend::Session;

  if ($new_user) {
    # pass on any non-su options to userdb tag
    my $newopt = { %$opt };
    delete @{$newopt}{qw( admin exit create_user )};
    $newopt->{username} = $user;
    my $result = $Tag->userdb('new_account', $newopt);
    unless ($result) {
      my $error = errmsg("Failed to create new user '%s' in su tag", $user);
      logError($error);
      $Scratch->{ui_error} = $error;
      return undef;
    }
    $Session->{su} = $sess;
  }
  else {
    $Vend::username = $Session->{username} = $user;
    $Vend::admin    = $Session->{admin}    = $going_to_admin;
    $Session->{logged_in} = 1;
    $Session->{su} = $sess;
    $Tag->userdb('load');
  }

  ## Reconnect session variables
  Vend::Interpolate::init_calc;

  my $dest = $Tag->if_mm('logged_in') ? 'admin user' : 'regular user';
  logError(
    "superuser %s switched user to %s %s",
    $former,
    $dest,
    $Session->{username},
    );
  return 1;
}
else {
  ::logError("unknown su operation: " . uneval_it($opt));
  return undef;
}
}
EOR

AUTHORS

Interchange Development Group

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