Since the user authentication stores a SHA2-512 hash of the password on
disk, caching the hash results in memory speeds up the authentication
process significantly. Storing the password on disk in plain-text form
would also speed it up but this would be quite insecure.
If normal authentication fails and a PAM service is defined, PAM authentication
is attempted. Separate services can be set for read-only users and admin-level
users.
By passing the raw password deeper into the authentication code, it can be
used to verify the user can access some systems. Right now, this is not
required by the simple salted password comparison done in MaxScale.
See script directory for method. The script to run in the top level
MaxScale directory is called maxscale-uncrustify.sh, which uses
another script, list-src, from the same directory (so you need to set
your PATH). The uncrustify version was 0.66.
Earlier, if a service had multiple listeners you would have had
MaxScale> show dbusers MyService
User names: alice@% ...
User names: bob@% ...
That is, no indication of which listener is reporting what. With
this commit the result will be
User names (MyListener1): alice@% ...
User names (MyListener2): bob@% ...
Further, the diagnostics function of an authenticator is now expected
to write the list of users to the provided DCB, without performing any
other formatting. The formatting (printing "User names" and appending
a line-feed) is now handled by the handler for the MaxAdmin command
"show dbusers".
Removing the last admin account is now forbidden. This should prevent most
cases where users could lock themselves out of the administrative
interface.
This change does allow a non-root network user to be the last admin
account. In practice this does not prevent the root user from gaining
access to maxadmin. Access can be gained by removing the users file and
restarting MaxScale or by editing the users file by hand.
Added a utility function for checking if an admin user has been
created. Removed unused promote and demote commands which can be replaced
with a call to remove and add.
The users can now be dumped and loaded as JSON objects. This allows easier
parsing and handling of users while still retaining the possibility to
manually edit the output. Added tests for dumping and loading the JSON
form users.
Also fixed a deadlock in Users::remove() where the same lock was acquired
twice and a faulty test case where failed authentication was expected to
work.
The type of the user being created is defined at creation time. This
allows the creation of basic users.
Although the users can be created internally, they cannot yet be created
via maxadmin or the REST API.
