Hermetic

Simple authentication for Clack-based Common Lisp web applications.

Usage

See the demo app for a complete example.

Available Password-Hashing Functions

To mitigate the risks of the NSA convincing people to hash passwords with things like SHA-256, only PBKDF2 (And eventually scrypt) is supported

• :pbkdf2-sha1
• :pbkdf2-sha256
• :pbkdf2-sha512

setup

Hermetic is not opinionated, doesn't integrate into an existing database or create any models. As such, it needs to be told how to find a user's information to provide authentication. This is what setup is for:

(setup
    :user-p        ;; str->bool, t if a username exists, nil otherwise
    :user-pass     ;; str->str, maps a username to a password (hash, hopefully)
    :user-roles    ;; str->(list sym), maps a username to a list of roles,
                   ;; for example: (:user) (:user :tester :staff) (:user :admin)
    :session       ;; the /expression/ for the session object. ningle:*session* on
                   ;; Ningle <https://github.com/fukamachi/ningle>.
    :denied        ;; A function that displays an "access denied" message
                   )

For example, if your users are stored in a simple in-memory hash-table as in the demo app:

(defmacro get-user (username)
  `(gethash ,username *users*))

(setup
 :user-p #'(lambda (user) (get-user user))
 :user-pass #'(lambda (user) (getf (get-user user) :pass))
 :user-roles #'(lambda (user) (getf (get-user user) :roles))
 :session *session*)

login

When creating your login view, the login macro handles most of the work for you.

auth

Grants access to a site only to users whose roles intersect with the roles in the first argument.

If an access denied page is not provided, the global one is used instead.

Example:

(setf (route *app* "/user/profile/:userid" :method :GET)
      (lambda (params
        (auth (:user)
              (render-template "templates/profile.html")
              (render-error "You have to log in to view user profiles.")))))

Misc.

When auth isn't enough to determine who gets to use what, Hermetic provides a few functions for accessing user data from inside a view.

• logged-in-p: Exactly what it says on the tin.
• user-name: Returns the username of the current user.
• roles: Returns the list of roles of the current user.
• role-p: Checks if a user has a role.

logout

Logs the user out. Takes two expressions, on-success and on-failure.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Fernando Borretti (eudoxiahp@gmail.com).

Licensed under the MIT License.