plain.auth
Add users to your app and define which views they can access.
To log a user in, you'll want to pair this package with:
plain-passwords
plain-oauth
plain-passkeys
(TBD)plain-passlinks
(TBD)
Installation
# app/settings.py
INSTALLED_PACKAGES = [
# ...
"plain.auth",
"plain.sessions",
"plain.passwords",
]
MIDDLEWARE = [
"plain.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
"plain.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware", # <--
"plain.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware",
"plain.csrf.middleware.CsrfViewMiddleware",
"plain.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware", # <--
]
AUTH_USER_MODEL = "users.User"
AUTH_LOGIN_URL = "login"
Create your own user model (plain create users
).
# app/users/models.py
from plain import models
from plain.passwords.models import PasswordField
class User(models.Model):
email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
password = PasswordField()
is_staff = models.BooleanField(default=False)
created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
def __str__(self):
return self.email
Define your URL/view where users can log in.
# app/urls.py
from plain.auth.views import LoginView, LogoutView
from plain.urls import include, path
from plain.passwords.views import PasswordLoginView
class LoginView(PasswordLoginView):
template_name = "login.html"
urlpatterns = [
path("logout/", LogoutView, name="logout"),
path("login/", LoginView, name="login"),
]
Checking if a user is logged in
A request.user
will either be None
or point to an instance of a your AUTH_USER_MODEL
.
So in templates you can do:
{% if request.user %}
<p>Hello, {{ request.user.email }}!</p>
{% else %}
<p>You are not logged in.</p>
{% endif %}
Or in Python:
if request.user:
print(f"Hello, {request.user.email}!")
else:
print("You are not logged in.")
Restricting views
Use the AuthViewMixin
to restrict views to logged in users, staff users, or custom logic.
from plain.auth.views import AuthViewMixin
from plain.exceptions import PermissionDenied
from plain.views import View
class LoggedInView(AuthViewMixin, View):
login_required = True
class StaffOnlyView(AuthViewMixin, View):
login_required = True
staff_required = True
class CustomPermissionView(AuthViewMixin, View):
def check_auth(self):
super().check_auth()
if not self.request.user.is_special:
raise PermissionDenied("You're not special!")
1from plain.csrf.middleware import rotate_token
2from plain.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
3from plain.packages import packages as plain_packages
4from plain.runtime import settings
5from plain.utils.crypto import constant_time_compare, salted_hmac
6
7from .signals import user_logged_in, user_logged_out
8
9USER_ID_SESSION_KEY = "_auth_user_id"
10USER_HASH_SESSION_KEY = "_auth_user_hash"
11
12
13def _get_user_id_from_session(request):
14 # This value in the session is always serialized to a string, so we need
15 # to convert it back to Python whenever we access it.
16 return get_user_model()._meta.pk.to_python(request.session[USER_ID_SESSION_KEY])
17
18
19def get_session_auth_hash(user):
20 """
21 Return an HMAC of the password field.
22 """
23 return _get_session_auth_hash(user)
24
25
26def get_session_auth_fallback_hash(user):
27 for fallback_secret in settings.SECRET_KEY_FALLBACKS:
28 yield _get_session_auth_hash(user, secret=fallback_secret)
29
30
31def _get_session_auth_hash(user, secret=None):
32 key_salt = "plain.auth.get_session_auth_hash"
33 return salted_hmac(
34 key_salt,
35 getattr(user, settings.AUTH_USER_SESSION_HASH_FIELD),
36 secret=secret,
37 algorithm="sha256",
38 ).hexdigest()
39
40
41def login(request, user):
42 """
43 Persist a user id and a backend in the request. This way a user doesn't
44 have to reauthenticate on every request. Note that data set during
45 the anonymous session is retained when the user logs in.
46 """
47 if settings.AUTH_USER_SESSION_HASH_FIELD:
48 session_auth_hash = get_session_auth_hash(user)
49 else:
50 session_auth_hash = ""
51
52 if USER_ID_SESSION_KEY in request.session:
53 if _get_user_id_from_session(request) != user.pk:
54 # To avoid reusing another user's session, create a new, empty
55 # session if the existing session corresponds to a different
56 # authenticated user.
57 request.session.flush()
58 elif session_auth_hash and not constant_time_compare(
59 request.session.get(USER_HASH_SESSION_KEY, ""), session_auth_hash
60 ):
61 # If the session hash does not match the current hash, reset the
62 # session. Most likely this means the password was changed.
63 request.session.flush()
64 else:
65 request.session.cycle_key()
66
67 request.session[USER_ID_SESSION_KEY] = user._meta.pk.value_to_string(user)
68 request.session[USER_HASH_SESSION_KEY] = session_auth_hash
69 if hasattr(request, "user"):
70 request.user = user
71 rotate_token(request)
72 user_logged_in.send(sender=user.__class__, request=request, user=user)
73
74
75def logout(request):
76 """
77 Remove the authenticated user's ID from the request and flush their session
78 data.
79 """
80 # Dispatch the signal before the user is logged out so the receivers have a
81 # chance to find out *who* logged out.
82 user = getattr(request, "user", None)
83 user_logged_out.send(sender=user.__class__, request=request, user=user)
84 request.session.flush()
85 if hasattr(request, "user"):
86 request.user = None
87
88
89def get_user_model():
90 """
91 Return the User model that is active in this project.
92 """
93 try:
94 return plain_packages.get_model(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, require_ready=False)
95 except ValueError:
96 raise ImproperlyConfigured(
97 "AUTH_USER_MODEL must be of the form 'package_label.model_name'"
98 )
99 except LookupError:
100 raise ImproperlyConfigured(
101 "AUTH_USER_MODEL refers to model '%s' that has not been installed"
102 % settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL
103 )
104
105
106def get_user(request):
107 """
108 Return the user model instance associated with the given request session.
109 If no user is retrieved, return None.
110 """
111 if USER_ID_SESSION_KEY not in request.session:
112 return None
113
114 user_id = _get_user_id_from_session(request)
115
116 UserModel = get_user_model()
117 try:
118 user = UserModel._default_manager.get(pk=user_id)
119 except UserModel.DoesNotExist:
120 return None
121
122 # If the user models defines a specific field to also hash and compare
123 # (like password), then we verify that the hash of that field is still
124 # the same as when the session was created.
125 #
126 # If it has changed (i.e. password changed), then the session
127 # is no longer valid and cleared out.
128 if settings.AUTH_USER_SESSION_HASH_FIELD:
129 session_hash = request.session.get(USER_HASH_SESSION_KEY)
130 if not session_hash:
131 session_hash_verified = False
132 else:
133 session_auth_hash = get_session_auth_hash(user)
134 session_hash_verified = constant_time_compare(
135 session_hash, session_auth_hash
136 )
137 if not session_hash_verified:
138 # If the current secret does not verify the session, try
139 # with the fallback secrets and stop when a matching one is
140 # found.
141 if session_hash and any(
142 constant_time_compare(session_hash, fallback_auth_hash)
143 for fallback_auth_hash in get_session_auth_fallback_hash(user)
144 ):
145 request.session.cycle_key()
146 request.session[USER_HASH_SESSION_KEY] = session_auth_hash
147 else:
148 request.session.flush()
149 user = None
150
151 return user