source: fedd/federation/authorizer.py @ b0c185f

#/usr/local/bin/python

from fedid import fedid

class authorizer:
    """
    This class keeps track of authorization attributes for the various modules
    running.  When it gets smarter it will be the basis for a real
    attribute-based authentication system.
    """
    # general error exception for badly formed names.  
    class bad_name(RuntimeError): pass

    def __init__(self, def_attr="testbed"):
        self.attrs = { }
        self.globals=set()

    @staticmethod
    def auth_name(name):
        """
        Helper to convert a non-unicode local name to a unicode string.  Mixed
        representations can needlessly confuse the authorizer.
        """
        if isinstance(name, basestring):
            if not isinstance(name, unicode): return unicode(name)
            else: return name
        else: return name

    def valid_name(self, name):
        """
        Ensure that the given name is valid.  A valid name can either be a
        triple of strings and fedids representing one of our generalized Emulab
        names or a single fedid.  Compound names can include wildcards (None)
        and must anchor to a fedid at their highest level (unless they're all
        None)

        This either returns True or throws an exception.  More an assertion
        than a function.
        """
        if isinstance(name, tuple) and len(name) == 3:
            for n in name:
                if n: 
                    if not (isinstance(n, basestring) or isinstance(n, fedid)):
                        raise self.bad_name("names must be either a " +\
                                "triple or a fedid")
            for n in name: 
                if n:
                    if isinstance(n, fedid):
                        return True
                    else:
                        raise self.bad_name("Compound names must be " + \
                                "rooted in fedids: %s" % str(name))

            return True
        elif isinstance(name, fedid):
            return True
        else:
            raise self.bad_name("Names must be a triple or a fedid (%s)" % name)

    def set_attribute(self, name, attr):
        """
        Attach attr to name.  Multiple attrs can be attached.
        """
        self.valid_name(name)
        if isinstance(name, tuple):
            aname = tuple([ self.auth_name(n) for n in name])
        else:
            aname = self.auth_name(name)

        if not self.attrs.has_key(aname):
            self.attrs[aname] = set()
        self.attrs[aname].add(attr)

    def unset_attribute(self, name, attr):
        """
        Remove an attribute from name
        """
        self.valid_name(name)
        if isinstance(name, tuple):
            aname = tuple([ self.auth_name(n) for n in name])
        else:
            aname = self.auth_name(name)

        attrs = self.attrs.get(aname, None)
        if attrs: attrs.discard(attr)

    def check_attribute(self, name, attr):
        """
        Return True if name has attr (or if attr is global).  Tuple names match
        any tuple name that matches all names present and has None entries in
        other fileds.  For tuple names True implies that there is a matching
        tuple name with the attribute.
        """
        def tup(tup, i, p):
            mask = 1 << i
            if p & mask : return authorizer.auth_name(tup[i])
            else: return None

        self.valid_name(name)
        if attr in self.globals:
            return True

        if isinstance(name, tuple):
            for p in range(0,8):
                lookup = ( tup(name, 0, p), tup(name,1, p), tup(name,2,p))
                if self.attrs.has_key(lookup):
                    if attr in self.attrs[lookup]:
                        return True
        else:
            return  attr in self.attrs.get(self.auth_name(name), set())

    def set_global_attribute(self, attr):
        """
        Set a global attribute.  All names, even those otherwise unknown to the
        authorizer have this attribute.
        """
        self.globals.add(attr)

    def unset_global_attribute(self, attr):
        """
        Remove a global attribute
        """

        self.globals.discard(attr)