Summary:
By default, only respect GRIST_FORWARD_AUTH_HEADER on login endpoints; sessions are used elsewhere.
With GRIST_IGNORE_SESSION, do not use sessions, and respect GRIST_FORWARD_AUTH_HEADER on all endpoints.
GRIST_PROXY_AUTH_HEADER is now a synonym to GRIST_FORWARD_AUTH_HEADER.
Test Plan: Fixed tests. Tested first approach (no GRIST_IGNORE_SESSION) with grist-omnibus manually. Tested the second approach (with GRIST_IGNORE_SESSION) with a Apache-based setup enforcing http basic auth on all endpoints.
Reviewers: paulfitz, georgegevoian
Reviewed By: paulfitz, georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D4104
Summary:
For self-hosted Grist, forward auth has proven useful, where
some proxy wrapped around Grist manages authentication, and
passes on user information to Grist in a trusted header.
The current implementation is adequate when Grist is the
only place where the user logs in or out, but is confusing
otherwise (see https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/207).
Here we take some steps to broaden the scenarios Grist's
forward auth support can be used with:
* When a trusted header is present and is blank, treat
that as the user not being logged in, and don't look
any further for identity information. Specifically,
don't look in Grist's session information.
* Add a `GRIST_IGNORE_SESSION` flag to entirely prevent
Grist from picking up identity information from a cookie,
in order to avoid confusion between multiple login methods.
* Add tests for common scenarios.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3482
Summary:
This fleshes out header-based authentication a little more to
work with traefik-forward-auth.
Test Plan: manually tested
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3348
