# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # privilege_policies.py # Copyright (C) 2013 LEAP # # 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 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . """ Helpers to determine if the needed policies for privilege escalation are operative under this client run. """ import logging import os import platform from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) def is_missing_policy_permissions(): """ Returns True if we do not have implemented a policy checker for this platform, or if the policy checker exists but it cannot find the appropriate policy mechanisms in place. :rtype: bool """ _system = platform.system() platform_checker = _system + "PolicyChecker" policy_checker = globals().get(platform_checker, None) if not policy_checker: # it is true that we miss permission to escalate # privileges without asking for password each time. logger.debug("we could not find a policy checker implementation " "for %s" % (_system,)) return True return policy_checker().is_missing_policy_permissions() class PolicyChecker: """ Abstract PolicyChecker class """ __metaclass__ = ABCMeta @abstractmethod def is_missing_policy_permissions(self): """ Returns True if we could not find any policy mechanisms that are defined to be in used for this particular platform. :rtype: bool """ return True class LinuxPolicyChecker(PolicyChecker): """ PolicyChecker for Linux """ LINUX_POLKIT_FILE = ("/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/" "se.leap.bitmask.policy") @classmethod def get_polkit_path(self): """ Returns the polkit file path. :rtype: str """ return self.LINUX_POLKIT_FILE def is_missing_policy_permissions(self): # FIXME this name is quite confusing, it does not have anything to do with # file permissions. """ Returns True if we could not find the appropriate policykit file in place :rtype: bool """ return not os.path.isfile(self.LINUX_POLKIT_FILE)