Extended functions

Presentation

When writing rules and headers, you can use Perl expressions that will be evaluated in a jail, to prevent bad code execution.

This is also true for:

Inside this jail, you can access to:

Tip

To know more about the jail, check Safe module documentation.

Extended Functions List

date

Returns the date, in format YYYYMMDDHHMMSS, local time by default, GMT by calling date(1)

For example: date(1) lt '19551018080000'

dateToTime

New in version 2.0.12.

Converts a string date into epoch time.

The date format is the LDAP date syntax, for example for the 1st March 2009 (GMT):

20090301000000Z

The date may end with a differential timezone that is interpreted to adjust the epoch time, for example for the 1st March 2009 (+0100):

20090301000000+0100

Simple usage example:

dateToTime($ssoStartDate) lt dateToTime(date(1))

checkLogonHours

This function will check the day and the hour of current request, and compare it to allowed days and hours. It returns 1 if this match, 0 else. By default, the allowed days and hours is an hexadecimal value, representing each hour of the week. A day has 24 hours, and a week 7 days, so the value contains 168 bits, converted into 42 hexadecimal characters. Sunday is the first day.

For example, for a full access, excepted week-end:

000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF000000

Tip

You can use the binary value from the logonHours attribute of Active Directory, or create a custom attribute in your LDAP schema.

Functions parameters:

  • logon_hours: string representing allowed logon hours (GMT)

  • syntax (optional): hexadecimal (default) or octetstring

  • time_correction (optional): hours to add or to subtract

  • default_access (optional): what result to return if logon_hours is empty

Simple usage example:

checkLogonHours($ssoLogonHours)

If you use the binary value (Active Directory), use this:

checkLogonHours($ssoLogonHours, 'octetstring')

You can also configure jetlag (if all of your users use the same timezone):

checkLogonHours($ssoLogonHours, '', '+2')

If you manage different timezones, you have to take the jetlag into account in ssoLogonHours values, or use the $_timezone parameter. This parameter is set by the portal and use javascript to get the connected user timezone. It should works on every browser:

checkLogonHours($ssoLogonHours, '', $_timezone)

You can modify the default behavior for people without value in ssoLogonHours. Indeed, by default, users without logon hours values are rejected. You can allow these users instead of reject them:

checkLogonHours($ssoLogonHours, '', '', '1')

checkDate

This function will check the date of current request, and compare it to a start date and an end date. It returns 1 if this match, 0 else.

The date format is the LDAP date syntax, for example for the 1st of March 2009 (GMT)

20090301000000Z

new Since version 2.0.12, the date may end with a differential timezone, for example for the 1st of March 2009 (+0100):

20090301000000+0100

Functions parameters:

  • start: Start date (GMT unless, new since version 2.0.12, a differential timezone is included)

  • end: End date (GMT unless, new since version 2.0.12, a differential timezone is included)

  • default_access (optional): what result to return if start and end are empty

Simple usage example:

checkDate($ssoStartDate, $ssoEndDate)

basic

Attention

This function is not compliant with Safe jail, you will need to disable the jail to use it.

This function builds the Authorization HTTP header used in HTTP Basic authentication scheme. It will force conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 of user and password data.

Functions parameters:

  • user

  • password

Simple usage example:

basic($uid,$_password)

unicode2iso

Attention

This function is not compliant with Safe jail, you will need to disable the jail to use it.

This function convert a string from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.

Functions parameters:

  • string

Simple usage example:

unicode2iso($name)

iso2unicode

Attention

This function is not compliant with Safe jail, you will need to disable the jail to use it.

This function convert a string from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.

Functions parameters:

  • string

Simple usage example:

iso2unicode($name)

groupMatch

This function allows one to parse the $hGroups variable to check if a value is present inside a group attribute.

Function parameter:

  • groups: $hGroups variable

  • attribute: Name of group attribute

  • value: Value to check

Simple usage example:

groupMatch($hGroups, 'description', 'Service 1')

has2f

New in version 2.0.10.

This function tests if the current user has registered a second factor. The following types are supported:

Example:

has2f()
has2f('UBK')
has2f('UBK') or has2f('TOTP')

Warning

Do NOT use this test to check if the user has used their second factor for logging in! This test only checks if the user has registered a second factor. Regardless of their current authentication level. It can be used to simplify second factor activation rules.

Note

Before version 2.0.10, you need to use the following syntax

$_2fDevices =~ /"type":\s*"TOTP"/s

listMatch

This function lets you test if a particular value can be found with a multi-valued session attribute.

Function parameter:

  • list: Variable containing several values (plain string with separator, array or hash)

  • value: Value to search in the list

  • ignorecase: Ignore case, by default the search is case-sensitive

Simple usage example:

# Case sensitive match
listMatch($roles, 'role-app1')

# Case insensitive match
listMatch($roles, 'RoLe-aPp1', 1)

The function returns 1 if the value was found, and 0 if it was not found.

inGroup

This function lets you test if the user is in a given group. It is case-insensitive.

Usage example:

inGroup('admins')

inGroup('test users')

The function returns 1 if the user belongs to the given group, and 0 if they don’t.

encrypt

Tip

Since version 2.0, this function is now compliant with Safe jail.

This function uses the secret key of LLNG configuration to crypt a data. This can be used for anonymizing identifier given to the protected application.

encrypt($_whatToTrace)

token

This function generates token used for handling server webservice calls.

token($_session_id,'webapp1.example.com','webapp2.example.com')

isInNet6

Function to check if an IPv6 address is in a subnet. Example check if IP address is local:

isInNet6($ipAddr, 'fe80::/10')

varIsInUri

Function to check if a variable is in requested URI. Example check if $uid is in /check-auth/ URI:

varIsInUri($ENV{REQUEST_URI}, '/check-auth/', $uid)

https://test1.example.com/check-auth/dwho     -> true
https://test1.example.com/check-auth/dwho/api -> true
https://test1.example.com/check-auth/dwh      -> false

* You can set “restricted” flag to match exact URI:

varIsInUri($ENV{REQUEST_URI}, '/check-auth/', "$uid/", 1)

https://test1.example.com/check-auth/rtyler/     -> true
https://test1.example.com/check-auth/rtyler/api  -> false
https://test1.example.com/check-auth/rtyler      -> false