From: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:09:20 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clean up online registration confirmation strings.  Now they are
X-Git-Tag: 5.0~179
X-Git-Url: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/disorder/commitdiff_plain/53710d44d938e51937bc3c8a5184730428ba3d18?ds=sidebyside;hp=--cc

Clean up online registration confirmation strings.  Now they are
username/base62(random).
---

53710d44d938e51937bc3c8a5184730428ba3d18
diff --git a/CHANGES.html b/CHANGES.html
index 248aa8a..fe3c687 100644
--- a/CHANGES.html
+++ b/CHANGES.html
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ span.command {
        href="http://code.google.com/p/disorder/issues/detail?id=27">Issue
       27</a>.</p>
 
+      <p>Confirmation URLs for online registrations are cleaner now.</p>
+
     </div>
       
     <h3>RTP Player</h3>
diff --git a/README.upgrades b/README.upgrades
index c586dd8..cbe8637 100644
--- a/README.upgrades
+++ b/README.upgrades
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ all 1.1.x versions.
 
 If you install from .deb files then much of this work is automated.
 
+* 4.x -> 4.4
+
+The syntax of confirmation strings for online registrations has changed and old
+ones no longer work.  This only affects users who registered before the upgrade
+but have not yet confirmed their login.  You can delete such half-created users
+with 'disorder deluser USERNAME' (as an administrative user, for instance as
+root on the server) and they can start the registration process again.
+
 * 3.0 -> 4.x
 
 If you customized any of the templates, you will pretty much have to start from
diff --git a/server/server.c b/server/server.c
index 2874357..1cfd9bb 100644
--- a/server/server.c
+++ b/server/server.c
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * This file is part of DisOrder.
- * Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Richard Kettlewell
+ * Copyright (C) 2004-2009 Richard Kettlewell
  *
  * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -17,13 +17,18 @@
  */
 
 #include "disorder-server.h"
+#include "basen.h"
 
 #ifndef NONCE_SIZE
 # define NONCE_SIZE 16
 #endif
 
 #ifndef CONFIRM_SIZE
-# define CONFIRM_SIZE 10
+/** @brief Size of nonce in confirmation string in 32-bit words
+ *
+ * 64 bits gives 11 digits (in base 62).
+ */
+# define CONFIRM_SIZE 2
 #endif
 
 int volume_left, volume_right;		/* last known volume */
@@ -1318,30 +1323,23 @@ static int c_users(struct conn *c,
   return 1;				/* completed */
 }
 
-/** @brief Base64 mapping table for confirmation strings
- *
- * This is used with generic_to_base64() and generic_base64().  We cannot use
- * the MIME table as that contains '+' and '=' which get quoted when
- * URL-encoding.  (The CGI still does the URL encoding but it is desirable to
- * avoid it being necessary.)
- */
-static const char confirm_base64_table[] =
-  "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789/.*";
-
 static int c_register(struct conn *c,
 		      char **vec,
 		      int attribute((unused)) nvec) {
-  char *buf, *cs;
-  size_t bufsize;
-  int offset;
-
-  /* The confirmation string is base64(username;nonce) */
-  bufsize = strlen(vec[0]) + CONFIRM_SIZE + 2;
-  buf = xmalloc_noptr(bufsize);
-  offset = byte_snprintf(buf, bufsize, "%s;", vec[0]);
-  gcry_randomize(buf + offset, CONFIRM_SIZE, GCRY_STRONG_RANDOM);
-  cs = generic_to_base64((uint8_t *)buf, offset + CONFIRM_SIZE,
-			 confirm_base64_table);
+  char *cs;
+  uint32_t nonce[CONFIRM_SIZE];
+  char nonce_str[(32 * CONFIRM_SIZE) / 5 + 1];
+
+  /* The confirmation string is username/base62(nonce).  The confirmation
+   * process will pick the username back out to identify them but the _whole_
+   * string is used as the confirmation string.  Base 62 means we used only
+   * letters and digits, minimizing the chance of the URL being mispasted. */
+  gcry_randomize(nonce, sizeof nonce, GCRY_STRONG_RANDOM);
+  if(basen(nonce, CONFIRM_SIZE, nonce_str, sizeof nonce_str, 62)) {
+    error(0, "buffer too small encoding confirmation string");
+    sink_writes(ev_writer_sink(c->w), "550 Cannot create user\n");
+  }
+  byte_xasprintf(&cs, "%s/%s", vec[0], nonce_str);
   if(trackdb_adduser(vec[0], vec[1], config->default_rights, vec[2], cs))
     sink_writes(ev_writer_sink(c->w), "550 Cannot create user\n");
   else
@@ -1352,7 +1350,6 @@ static int c_register(struct conn *c,
 static int c_confirm(struct conn *c,
 		     char **vec,
 		     int attribute((unused)) nvec) {
-  size_t nuser;
   char *user, *sep;
   rights_type rights;
   const char *host;
@@ -1362,12 +1359,12 @@ static int c_confirm(struct conn *c,
     sink_writes(ev_writer_sink(c->w), "530 Authentication failure\n");
     return 1;
   }
-  if(!(user = generic_base64(vec[0], &nuser, confirm_base64_table))
-     || !(sep = memchr(user, ';', nuser))) {
+  /* Picking the LAST / means we don't (here) rule out slashes in usernames. */
+  if(!(sep = strrchr(vec[0], '/'))) {
     sink_writes(ev_writer_sink(c->w), "550 Malformed confirmation string\n");
     return 1;
   }
-  *sep = 0;
+  user = xstrndup(vec[0], sep - vec[0]);
   if(trackdb_confirm(user, vec[0], &rights))
     sink_writes(ev_writer_sink(c->w), "550 Incorrect confirmation string\n");
   else {