""" LTI user management functionality. This module reconciles the two identities that an individual has in the campus LMS platform and on edX. """ import random import string import uuid from django.conf import settings from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login from django.contrib.auth.models import User # lint-amnesty, pylint: disable=imported-auth-user from django.core.exceptions import PermissionDenied from django.db import IntegrityError, transaction from common.djangoapps.student.models import UserProfile from lms.djangoapps.lti_provider.models import LtiUser def authenticate_lti_user(request, lti_user_id, lti_consumer): """ Determine whether the user specified by the LTI launch has an existing account. If not, create a new Django User model and associate it with an LtiUser object. If the currently logged-in user does not match the user specified by the LTI launch, log out the old user and log in the LTI identity. """ try: lti_user = LtiUser.objects.get( lti_user_id=lti_user_id, lti_consumer=lti_consumer ) except LtiUser.DoesNotExist: # This is the first time that the user has been here. Create an account. lti_user = create_lti_user(lti_user_id, lti_consumer) if not (request.user.is_authenticated and request.user == lti_user.edx_user): # The user is not authenticated, or is logged in as somebody else. # Switch them to the LTI user switch_user(request, lti_user, lti_consumer) def create_lti_user(lti_user_id, lti_consumer): """ Generate a new user on the edX platform with a random username and password, and associates that account with the LTI identity. """ edx_password = str(uuid.uuid4()) created = False while not created: try: edx_user_id = generate_random_edx_username() edx_email = f"{edx_user_id}@{settings.LTI_USER_EMAIL_DOMAIN}" with transaction.atomic(): edx_user = User.objects.create_user( username=edx_user_id, password=edx_password, email=edx_email, ) # A profile is required if PREVENT_CONCURRENT_LOGINS flag is set. # TODO: We could populate user information from the LTI launch here, # but it's not necessary for our current uses. edx_user_profile = UserProfile(user=edx_user) edx_user_profile.save() created = True except IntegrityError: # The random edx_user_id wasn't unique. Since 'created' is still # False, we will retry with a different random ID. pass lti_user = LtiUser( lti_consumer=lti_consumer, lti_user_id=lti_user_id, edx_user=edx_user ) lti_user.save() return lti_user def switch_user(request, lti_user, lti_consumer): """ Log out the current user, and log in using the edX identity associated with the LTI ID. """ edx_user = authenticate( username=lti_user.edx_user.username, lti_user_id=lti_user.lti_user_id, lti_consumer=lti_consumer ) if not edx_user: # This shouldn't happen, since we've created edX accounts for any LTI # users by this point, but just in case we can return a 403. raise PermissionDenied() login(request, edx_user) def generate_random_edx_username(): """ Create a valid random edX user ID. An ID is at most 30 characters long, and can contain upper and lowercase letters and numbers. :return: """ allowable_chars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits username = '' for _index in range(30): username = username + random.SystemRandom().choice(allowable_chars) return username class LtiBackend: """ A Django authentication backend that authenticates users via LTI. This backend will only return a User object if it is associated with an LTI identity (i.e. the user was created by the create_lti_user method above). """ def authenticate(self, _request, username=None, lti_user_id=None, lti_consumer=None): """ Try to authenticate a user. This method will return a Django user object if a user with the corresponding username exists in the database, and if a record that links that user with an LTI user_id field exists in the LtiUser collection. If such a user is not found, the method returns None (in line with the authentication backend specification). """ try: edx_user = User.objects.get(username=username) except User.DoesNotExist: return None try: LtiUser.objects.get( edx_user_id=edx_user.id, lti_user_id=lti_user_id, lti_consumer=lti_consumer ) except LtiUser.DoesNotExist: return None return edx_user def get_user(self, user_id): """ Return the User object for a user that has already been authenticated by this backend. """ try: return User.objects.get(id=user_id) except User.DoesNotExist: return None