add dns-based ldap domain controller lookup

   and rotate through the returned list of servers, per request!

1 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/session_app.py.publish b/session_app.py.publish
index adfd0ad..fd403c2 100755
--- a/session_app.py.publish
+++ b/session_app.py.publish
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 #    future: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/flask-authentication-with-ldap--cms-23101
 #    better timeout session: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49891626/3569534
 #    store "formdata" in session for changing the basic auth to form data for the ldap login https://stackoverflow.com/a/56904875/3569534
+#    modify url from urlparse https://stackoverflow.com/a/21629125/3569534
 # Improve:
 #    move all configs to config file
 #    move all references to references section
 #    accept a bind credential so we can perform lookups of users who match "uid=%s" under a basedn.
-#    accept a ldap dns domain name, and a SRV lookup for _tcp._ldap
 # Run:
 #    FLASK_APP=session_app.py FLASK_DEBUG=1 flask run --host 0.0.0.0
 # Dependencies:
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from functools import wraps
 import binascii, datetime
 import os
 import session_ldap
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 DEBUG=True
 app = Flask(__name__)
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ app.debug=True
 secret_key_value = os.urandom(24)
 secret_key_value_hex_encoded = binascii.hexlify(secret_key_value)
 app.config['SECRET_KEY'] = secret_key_value_hex_encoded
-app.config['LDAP_URI'] = "ldaps://dns1.ipa.internal.com:636"
+app.config['LDAP_URI'] = "ldaps://ipa.internal.com:636"
 app.config['LDAP_USER_BASEDN'] = "cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=ipa,dc=internal,dc=com"
 app.config['LDAP_GROUP_BASEDN'] = "cn=groups,cn=accounts,dc=ipa,dc=internal,dc=com"
 app.config['LDAP_USER_FORMAT'] = "uid=%s,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=ipa,dc=internal,dc=com"
@@ -183,8 +184,26 @@ def login(user="None"):
       
 def ldap_login(username,password):
    #print(f"DEBUG: Trying user {username} with pw '{password}'")
+   # on first ldap_login attempt, cache this lookup result:
+   if 'LDAP_HOSTS' not in app.config:
+      this_domain = urlparse(app.config['LDAP_URI']).hostname
+      app.config['LDAP_HOSTS'] = session_ldap.list_ldap_servers_for_domain(this_domain)
+   else:
+      # rotate them! So every ldap_login attempt will use the next ldap server in the list.
+      this_list = app.config['LDAP_HOSTS']
+      a = this_list[0]
+      this_list.append(a)
+      this_list.pop(0)
+      app.config['LDAP_HOSTS'] = this_list
+   # construct a new, full uri.
+   this_netloc = app.config['LDAP_HOSTS'][0]
+   up = urlparse(app.config['LDAP_URI'])
+   if up.port:
+      this_netloc += f":{up.port}"
+   this_uri = up._replace(netloc=this_netloc).geturl()
+   # Perform the ldap interactions
    user = session_ldap.authenticated_user(
-         app.config['LDAP_URI'],
+         this_uri,
          app.config['LDAP_USER_FORMAT'],
          username,
          password