annotate mod_auth_ha1/README.markdown @ 5276:67777cb7353d

mod_http_oauth2: Pedantic optimization Checking the length of the string seems like 30% more expensive than comparing it with the empty string (by reference, probably).
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2 labels:
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3 - 'Stage-Beta'
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4 - 'Type-Auth'
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5 summary: |
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6 Authentication module for 'HA1' hashed credentials in a text file, as
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7 used by reTurnServer
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8 ...
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10 Introduction
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11 ============
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13 This module authenticates users against hashed credentials stored in a
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14 plain text file. The format is the same as that used by reTurnServer.
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16 Configuration
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17 =============
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19 Name Default Description
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21 auth\_ha1\_file auth.txt Path to the authentication file
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23 Prosody reads the auth file at startup and on reload (e.g. SIGHUP).
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25 File Format
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26 ===========
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28 The file format is text, with one user per line. Each line is broken
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29 into four fields separated by colons (':'):
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31 username:ha1:host:status
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33 Field Description
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34 ---------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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35 username The user's login name
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36 ha1 An MD5 hash of "username:host:password"
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37 host The XMPP hostname
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38 status The status of the account. Prosody expects this to be just the text "authorized"
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40 More info can be found
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41 [here](https://github.com/resiprocate/resiprocate/blob/master/reTurn/users.txt).
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43 Example
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46 john:2a236a1a68765361c64da3b502d4e71c:example.com:authorized
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47 mary:4ed7cf9cbe81e02dbfb814de6f84edf1:example.com:authorized
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48 charlie:83002e42eb4515ec0070489339f2114c:example.org:authorized
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50 Constructing the hashes can be done manually using any MD5 utility, such
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51 as md5sum. For example the user 'john' has the password 'hunter2', and
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52 his hash can be calculated like this:
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54 echo -n "john:example.com:hunter2" | md5sum -
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56 Compatibility
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57 =============
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60 0.9 Works
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61 0.10 Works
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