Add key-based authentication to management service

Intended to be the simplest auth possible: every time the service
starts, a random key is written to `/var/lib/mailinabox/api.key`. In
order to authenticate to the service, the client must pass the contents
of `api.key` in an HTTP basic auth header. In this way, users who do not
have read access to that file are not able to communicate with the
service.

management/auth.py

+import base64, os, os.path
+
+from flask import make_response
+
+DEFAULT_KEY_PATH   = '/var/lib/mailinabox/api.key'
+DEFAULT_AUTH_REALM = 'Mail-in-a-Box Management Server'
+
+class KeyAuthService:
+	"""Generate an API key for authenticating clients
+
+	Clients must read the key from the key file and send the key with all HTTP
+	requests. The key is passed as the username field in the standard HTTP
+	Basic Auth header.
+	"""
+	def __init__(self, env):
+		self.auth_realm = DEFAULT_AUTH_REALM
+		self.key = self._generate_key()
+		self.key_path = env.get('API_KEY_FILE') or DEFAULT_KEY_PATH
+
+	def write_key(self):
+		"""Write key to file so authorized clients can get the key
+
+		The key file is created with mode 0640 so that additional users can be
+		authorized to access the API by granting group/ACL read permissions on
+		the key file.
+		"""
+		def create_file_with_mode(path, mode):
+			# Based on answer by A-B-B: http://stackoverflow.com/a/15015748
+			old_umask = os.umask(0)
+			try:
+				return os.fdopen(os.open(path, os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT, mode), 'w')
+			finally:
+				os.umask(old_umask)
+
+		os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(self.key_path), exist_ok=True)
+
+		with create_file_with_mode(self.key_path, 0o640) as key_file:
+			key_file.write(self.key + '\n')
+
+	def is_authenticated(self, request):
+		"""Test if the client key passed in HTTP header matches the service key"""
+
+		def decode(s):
+			return base64.b64decode(s.encode('utf-8')).decode('ascii')
+
+		def parse_api_key(header):
+			if header is None:
+				return
+
+			scheme, credentials = header.split(maxsplit=1)
+			if scheme != 'Basic':
+				return
+
+			username, password = decode(credentials).split(':', maxsplit=1)
+			return username
+
+		request_key = parse_api_key(request.headers.get('Authorization'))
+
+		return request_key == self.key
+
+	def make_unauthorized_response(self):
+		return make_response(
+			'You must pass the API key from "{0}" as the username\n'.format(self.key_path),
+			401,
+			{ 'WWW-Authenticate': 'Basic realm="{0}"'.format(self.auth_realm) })
+
+	def _generate_key(self):
+		raw_key = os.urandom(32)
+		return base64.b64encode(raw_key).decode('ascii')

management/daemon.py

@@ -2,14 +2,25 @@
 
 import os, os.path, re
 
-from flask import Flask, request, render_template
+from flask import Flask, request, render_template, abort
 app = Flask(__name__)
 
-import utils
+import auth, utils
 from mailconfig import get_mail_users, add_mail_user, set_mail_password, remove_mail_user, get_mail_aliases, get_mail_domains, add_mail_alias, remove_mail_alias
 
 env = utils.load_environment()
 
+auth_service = auth.KeyAuthService(env)
+
+@app.before_request
+def require_auth_key():
+	if not auth_service.is_authenticated(request):
+		abort(401)
+
+@app.errorhandler(401)
+def unauthorized(error):
+	return auth_service.make_unauthorized_response()
+
 @app.route('/')
 def index():
     return render_template('index.html')
@@ -97,4 +108,15 @@ def do_updates():
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 	if "DEBUG" in os.environ: app.debug = True
+
+	# For testing on the command line, you can use `curl` like so:
+	#    curl --user $(</var/lib/mailinabox/api.key): http://localhost:10222/mail/users
+	auth_service.write_key()
+
+	# For testing in the browser, you can copy the API key that's output to the
+	# debug console and enter that as the username
+	app.logger.info('API key: ' + auth_service.key)
+
+
 	app.run(port=10222)
+

setup/start.sh

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ PUBLIC_HOSTNAME=$PUBLIC_HOSTNAME
 PUBLIC_IP=$PUBLIC_IP
 PUBLIC_IPV6=$PUBLIC_IPV6
 CSR_COUNTRY=$CSR_COUNTRY
+API_KEY_FILE=/var/lib/mailinabox/api.key
 EOF
 
 # Start service configuration.