Radicale/radicale/auth/courier.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# This file is part of Radicale Server - Calendar Server
# Copyright © 2011 Henry-Nicolas Tourneur
#
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"""
Courier-Authdaemon authentication.

"""

import sys
import socket

from .. import config, log


COURIER_SOCKET = config.get("auth", "courier_socket")


def is_authenticated(user, password):
    """Check if ``user``/``password`` couple is valid."""

    line = "%s\nlogin\n%s\n%s" % (sys.argv[0], user, password)
    line = "AUTH %i\n%s" % (len(line), line)
    try:
        sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
        sock.connect(COURIER_SOCKET)
        log.LOGGER.debug("Sending to Courier socket the request: %s" % line)
        sock.send(line)
        data = sock.recv(1024)
        sock.close()
    except socket.error as exception:
        log.LOGGER.debug(
            "Unable to communicate with Courier socket: %s" % exception)
        return False

    log.LOGGER.debug("Got Courier socket response: %r" % data)

    # Address, HOME, GID, and either UID or USERNAME are mandatory in resposne
    # see http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README_authlib.html#authpipeproto
    for line in data.split():
        if "GID" in line:
            return True

    # default is reject
    # this alleviates the problem of a possibly empty reply from authlib
    # see http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README_authlib.html#authpipeproto
    return False