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Diffstat (limited to 'common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py')
-rw-r--r-- | common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py index d9ed5026..4c5f6400 100644 --- a/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py +++ b/common/src/leap/soledad/common/couch.py @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ class CouchDatabase(CommonBackend): self._set_replica_uid(replica_uid) if ensure_ddocs: self.ensure_ddocs_on_db() - self.ensure_security() + self.ensure_security_ddoc() self._cache = None @property @@ -468,10 +468,15 @@ class CouchDatabase(CommonBackend): getattr(ddocs, ddoc_name))) self._database.save(ddoc) - def ensure_security(self): + def ensure_security_ddoc(self): """ Make sure that only soledad user is able to access this database as - a member. + an unprivileged member, meaning that administration access will + be forbidden even inside an user database. + The goal is to make sure that only the lowest access level is given + to the unprivileged CouchDB user set on the server process. + This is achieved by creating a _security design document, see: + http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/api/database/security.html """ security = self._database.security security['members'] = {'names': ['soledad'], 'roles': []} @@ -1386,12 +1391,9 @@ class CouchSyncTarget(CommonSyncTarget): source_replica_transaction_id) -DB_NAME_MASK = "^user-[a-f0-9]+$" - - def is_db_name_valid(name): """ - Validate a user database using DB_NAME_MASK. + Validate a user database using a regular expression. :param name: database name. :type name: str @@ -1399,7 +1401,8 @@ def is_db_name_valid(name): :return: boolean for name vailidity :rtype: bool """ - return re.match(DB_NAME_MASK, name) is not None + db_name_regex = "^user-[a-f0-9]+$" + return re.match(db_name_regex, name) is not None class CouchServerState(ServerState): |