api tokens - clarify terms: "monitors" are admins that authenticated via api token, "tmp" users are users that exist only in tmp db, "test" users are either tmp users or users named "test_user_x"

2 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/app/controllers/controller_extension/errors.rb b/app/controllers/controller_extension/errors.rb
index 8f8edde..2b68955 100644
--- a/app/controllers/controller_extension/errors.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/controller_extension/errors.rb
@@ -4,21 +4,22 @@ module ControllerExtension::Errors
   protected
 
   def access_denied
-    respond_to_error :not_authorized, :forbidden, home_url
+    render_error :not_authorized, :forbidden, home_url
   end
 
   def login_required
     # Warden will intercept the 401 response and call
     # SessionController#unauthenticated instead.
-    respond_to_error :not_authorized_login, :unauthorized, login_url
+    render_error :not_authorized_login, :unauthorized, login_url
   end
 
-  def not_found
-    respond_to_error :not_found, :not_found, home_url
+  def not_found(msg=nil, url=nil)
+    render_error(msg || :not_found, :not_found, url || home_url)
   end
 
+  private
 
-  def respond_to_error(message, status=nil, redirect=nil)
+  def render_error(message, status=nil, redirect=nil)
     error = message
     message = t(message) if message.is_a?(Symbol)
     respond_to do |format|
diff --git a/app/controllers/controller_extension/fetch_user.rb b/app/controllers/controller_extension/fetch_user.rb
index 695d723..97f92fa 100644
--- a/app/controllers/controller_extension/fetch_user.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/controller_extension/fetch_user.rb
@@ -8,11 +8,25 @@ module ControllerExtension::FetchUser
 
   protected
 
+  #
+  # fetch @user from params, but enforce permissions:
+  #
+  # * admins may fetch any user
+  # * monitors may fetch test users
+  # * users may fetch themselves
+  #
+  # these permissions matter, it is what protects
+  # users from being updated or deleted by other users.
+  #
   def fetch_user
     @user = User.find(params[:user_id] || params[:id])
-    if !@user && admin?
-      redirect_to users_url, :alert => t(:no_such_thing, :thing => 'user')
-    elsif !admin? && @user != current_user
+    if current_user.is_admin? || current_user.is_monitor?
+      if @user.nil?
+        not_found(t(:no_such_thing, :thing => 'user'), users_url)
+      elsif current_user.is_monitor?
+        access_denied unless @user.is_test?
+      end
+    elsif @user != current_user
       access_denied
     end
   end