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*#* Show login screen, login message, and # of login attempts for this user | *#* Show login screen, login message, and # of login attempts for this user | ||
*# ...else if $login_ok | *# ...else if $login_ok | ||
*#* Set user/pass cookie | |||
*#* Show control bar, with appropriate applications enabled and user info: | *#* Show control bar, with appropriate applications enabled and user info: | ||
*#** Time of last successful login | *#** Time of last successful login |
Revision as of 16:41, 8 August 2005
This is my attempt to create a general user administration system for use by other web-based applications (mostly mine) which might need one.
Login Sequence
Major phases
- check what came in (form/cookies); set flags
- inspect the database; set flags
- set cookies and show html
Flow chart
- Phase I: check what came in
- Get user form input (user, pass, possibly extra pass & email)
- If no user given:
- check cookies for user/pass combination:
- If user/pass found in cookies, set $is_revisit flag
- If no user/pass found in cookies:
- set $do_login_screen flag
- set login message to "Please log in"
- check cookies for user/pass combination:
- ...else (user given):
- If password also given
- If 2nd password given:
- If 2 passwords match set $do_create_user flag
- If 2 passwords don't match:
- set $do_login_screen flag
- set login message to "passwords don't match"
- ...else (no 2nd password):
- set $do_login_attempt flag
- If 2nd password given:
- If password also given
- Phase II: check database
- Open database and inspect "users" table.
- If no users yet:
- If $do_create_user:
- Add user to database
- Give user "god" permissions
- Set $login_ok flag
- ...else (not $do_create_user):
- Set login message to "you are the first user; please create a new account"
- If $do_create_user:
- ...else if users found:
- If $do_login_attempt:
- Lookup encrypted password for given user
- If encryption of new password matches
- set $login_ok flag
- if previous login was successful (check timestamps), set login attempts to zero
- ...else (password mismatch):
- increment login attempts for this user
- ...else (not $do_login_attempt):
- If $new_pass_valid:
- Create new account
- Set $login_ok flag
- ...else (not $new_pass_valid):
- set $do_login_screen flag
- set login message to "invalid user/password"
- if $is_revisit, log a HACK WARNING
- If $new_pass_valid:
- If $do_login_attempt:
- Phase III: set cookies and show html
- if $do_login_screen:
- Show login screen, login message, and # of login attempts for this user
- ...else if $login_ok
- Set user/pass cookie
- Show control bar, with appropriate applications enabled and user info:
- Time of last successful login
- Time of last unsuccessful login
- Number of failed login attempts
- if $do_login_screen:
Possible bugs:
- Can $do_login_screen and $login_ok both end up false? In this case, nothing would be displayed.
- Can $do_login_screen and $login_ok both end up true? Is the resulting behavior appropriate?
Tables
- "K" indicates Primary Key fields
- "#" indicates autonumbered fields
Main data tables
- users -- users with access to the admin system
#K | ID | int(4) | |
Name | varchar(32) | ||
Pass | text | ||
varchar(128) | email address for password confirmation and such | ||
WhenGood | timestamp | when user last logged in | |
WhenBad | timestamp | when user last attempted to log in but failed (bad password) | |
QtyFails | int(4) | number of failed login attempts since last success |
- groups -- each group has a role to play, and each role requires a particular set of privileges
#K | ID | int(4) | |
Name | varchar(32) | ||
Descr | text | text describing the purpose of this group |
- privs -- particular privileges; meaning is defined in code
#K | ID | int(4) | |
Name | varchar(32) | ||
Descr | text | text describing this permission |
Collection/link tables
- users_x_groups -- users in each group / groups to which each user belongs
K | ID_User | int(4) | users.ID |
K | ID_Group | int(4) | groups.ID |
- groups_x_privs -- privileges each group has / groups having a particular privilege
K | ID_Group | int(4) | groups.ID |
K | ID_Priv | int(4) | privs.ID |
Logging tables
- log -- logs of login attempts as well as what users did while logged in
K# | ID | int(4) | |
ID_User | int(4) | users.ID - which user, if any (NULL = unknown user) | |
ID_Session | int(4) | sessions.ID - more information in case user is unknown | |
When | timestamp | when this action was taken | |
Seq | int(4) | Order in which actions were executed, if done at the same time | |
Descr | text | description of action taken (should be very specific) |