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| 1 | +Security |
| 2 | +======== |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Authentication and Firewalls (i.e. Getting the User's Credentials) |
| 5 | +------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +You can configure Symfony to authenticate your users using any method you |
| 8 | +want and to load user information from any source. This is a complex topic, |
| 9 | +but the `Security Cookbook Section`_ has a lot of information about this. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Regardless of your needs, authentication is configured in ``security.yml``, |
| 12 | +primarily under the ``firewalls`` key. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +.. best-practice:: |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + Unless you have two legitimately different authentication systems and |
| 17 | + users (e.g. form login for the main site and a token system for your |
| 18 | + API only), we recommend having only *one* firewall entry with the ``anonymous`` |
| 19 | + key enabled. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +Most applications only have one authentication system and one set of users. |
| 22 | +For this reason, you only need *one* firewall entry. There are exceptions |
| 23 | +of course, especially if you have separated web and API sections on your |
| 24 | +site. But the point is to keep things simple. |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Additionally, you should use the ``anonymous`` key under your firewall. If |
| 27 | +you need to require users to be logged in for different sections of your |
| 28 | +site (or maybe nearly *all* sections), use the ``access_control`` area. |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +.. best-practice:: |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + Use the ``bcrypt`` encoder for encoding your users' passwords. |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +If your users have a password, then we recommend encoding it using the ``bcrypt`` |
| 35 | +encoder, instead of the traditional SHA-512 hashing encoder. The main advantages |
| 36 | +of ``bcrypt`` are the inclusion of a *salt* value to protect against rainbow |
| 37 | +table attacks, and its adaptive nature, which allows to make it slower to |
| 38 | +remain resistant to brute-force search attacks. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +With this in mind, here is the authentication setup from our application, |
| 41 | +which uses a login form to load users from the database: |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +.. code-block:: yaml |
| 44 | +
|
| 45 | + security: |
| 46 | + encoders: |
| 47 | + AppBundle\Entity\User: bcrypt |
| 48 | +
|
| 49 | + providers: |
| 50 | + database_users: |
| 51 | + entity: { class: AppBundle:User, property: username } |
| 52 | +
|
| 53 | + firewalls: |
| 54 | + secured_area: |
| 55 | + pattern: ^/ |
| 56 | + anonymous: true |
| 57 | + form_login: |
| 58 | + check_path: security_login_check |
| 59 | + login_path: security_login_form |
| 60 | +
|
| 61 | + logout: |
| 62 | + path: security_logout |
| 63 | + target: homepage |
| 64 | +
|
| 65 | + # ... access_control exists, but is not shown here |
| 66 | +
|
| 67 | +.. tip:: |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | + The source code for our project contains comments that explain each part. |
| 70 | + |
| 71 | +Authorization (i.e. Denying Access) |
| 72 | +----------------------------------- |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +Symfony gives you several ways to enforce authorization, including the ``access_control`` |
| 75 | +configuration in `security.yml`_, the :ref:`@Security annotation <best-practices-security-annotation>` |
| 76 | +and using :ref:`isGranted <best-practices-directy-isGranted>` on the ``security.context`` |
| 77 | +service directly. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +.. best-practice:: |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | + * For protecting broad URL patterns, use ``access_control``; |
| 82 | + * Whenever possible, use the ``@Security`` annotation; |
| 83 | + * Check security directly on the ``security.context`` service whenever |
| 84 | + you have a more complex situation. |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +There are also different ways to centralize your authorization logic, like |
| 87 | +with a custom security voter or with ACL. |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +.. best-practice:: |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + * For fine-grained restrictions, define a custom security voter; |
| 92 | + * For restricting access to *any* object by *any* user via an admin |
| 93 | + interface, use the Symfony ACL. |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +.. _best-practices-security-annotation: |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +The @Security Annotation |
| 98 | +------------------------ |
| 99 | + |
| 100 | +For controlling access on a controller-by-controller basis, use the ``@Security`` |
| 101 | +annotation whenever possible. It's easy to read and is placed consistently |
| 102 | +above each action. |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | +In our application, you need the ``ROLE_ADMIN`` in order to create a new post. |
| 105 | +Using ``@Security``, this looks like: |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 108 | +
|
| 109 | + use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route; |
| 110 | + use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Security; |
| 111 | + // ... |
| 112 | +
|
| 113 | + /** |
| 114 | + * Displays a form to create a new Post entity. |
| 115 | + * |
| 116 | + * @Route("/new", name="admin_post_new") |
| 117 | + * @Security("has_role('ROLE_ADMIN')") |
| 118 | + */ |
| 119 | + public function newAction() |
| 120 | + { |
| 121 | + // ... |
| 122 | + } |
| 123 | +
|
| 124 | +Using Expressions for Complex Security Restrictions |
| 125 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 126 | + |
| 127 | +If your security logic is a little bit more complex, you can use an `expression`_ |
| 128 | +inside ``@Security``. In the following example, a user can only access the |
| 129 | +controller if their email matches the value returned by the ``getAuthorEmail`` |
| 130 | +method on the ``Post`` object: |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 133 | +
|
| 134 | + use AppBundle\Entity\Post; |
| 135 | + use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route; |
| 136 | + use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Security; |
| 137 | +
|
| 138 | + /** |
| 139 | + * @Route("/{id}/edit", name="admin_post_edit") |
| 140 | + * @Security("user.getEmail() == post.getAuthorEmail()") |
| 141 | + */ |
| 142 | + public function editAction(Post $post) |
| 143 | + { |
| 144 | + // ... |
| 145 | + } |
| 146 | +
|
| 147 | +Notice that this requires the use of the `ParamConverter`_, which automatically |
| 148 | +queries for the ``Post`` object and puts it on the ``$post`` argument. This |
| 149 | +is what makes it possible to use the ``post`` variable in the expression. |
| 150 | + |
| 151 | +This has one major drawback: an expression in an annotation cannot easily |
| 152 | +be reused in other parts of the application. Imagine that you want to add |
| 153 | +a link in a template that will only be seen by authors. Right now you'll |
| 154 | +need to repeat the expression code using Twig syntax: |
| 155 | + |
| 156 | +.. code-block:: html+jinja |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | + {% if app.user and app.user.email == post.authorEmail %} |
| 159 | + <a href=""> ... </a> |
| 160 | + {% endif %} |
| 161 | + |
| 162 | +The easiest solution - if your logic is simple enough - is to add a new method |
| 163 | +to the ``Post`` entity that checks if a given user is its author: |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 166 | +
|
| 167 | + // src/AppBundle/Entity/Post.php |
| 168 | + // ... |
| 169 | +
|
| 170 | + class Post |
| 171 | + { |
| 172 | + // ... |
| 173 | +
|
| 174 | + /** |
| 175 | + * Is the given User the author of this Post? |
| 176 | + * |
| 177 | + * @return bool |
| 178 | + */ |
| 179 | + public function isAuthor(User $user = null) |
| 180 | + { |
| 181 | + return $user && $user->getEmail() == $this->getAuthorEmail(); |
| 182 | + } |
| 183 | + } |
| 184 | +
|
| 185 | +Now you can reuse this method both in the template and in the security expression: |
| 186 | + |
| 187 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 188 | +
|
| 189 | + use AppBundle\Entity\Post; |
| 190 | + use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Security; |
| 191 | +
|
| 192 | + /** |
| 193 | + * @Route("/{id}/edit", name="admin_post_edit") |
| 194 | + * @Security("post.isAuthor(user)") |
| 195 | + */ |
| 196 | + public function editAction(Post $post) |
| 197 | + { |
| 198 | + // ... |
| 199 | + } |
| 200 | +
|
| 201 | +.. code-block:: html+jinja |
| 202 | + |
| 203 | + {% if post.isAuthor(app.user) %} |
| 204 | + <a href=""> ... </a> |
| 205 | + {% endif %} |
| 206 | + |
| 207 | +.. _best-practices-directy-isGranted: |
| 208 | + |
| 209 | +Checking Permissions without @Security |
| 210 | +-------------------------------------- |
| 211 | + |
| 212 | +The above example with ``@Security`` only works because we're using the |
| 213 | +:ref:`ParamConverter <best-practices-paramconverter>`, which gives the expression |
| 214 | +access to the a ``post`` variable. If you don't use this, or have some other |
| 215 | +more advanced use-case, you can always do the same security check in PHP: |
| 216 | + |
| 217 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 218 | +
|
| 219 | + /** |
| 220 | + * @Route("/{id}/edit", name="admin_post_edit") |
| 221 | + */ |
| 222 | + public function editAction($id) |
| 223 | + { |
| 224 | + $post = $this->getDoctrine()->getRepository('AppBundle:Post') |
| 225 | + ->find($id); |
| 226 | +
|
| 227 | + if (!$post) { |
| 228 | + throw $this->createNotFoundException(); |
| 229 | + } |
| 230 | +
|
| 231 | + if (!$post->isAuthor($this->getUser())) { |
| 232 | + throw $this->createAccessDeniedException(); |
| 233 | + } |
| 234 | +
|
| 235 | + // ... |
| 236 | + } |
| 237 | +
|
| 238 | +Security Voters |
| 239 | +--------------- |
| 240 | + |
| 241 | +If your security logic is complex and can't be centralized into a method |
| 242 | +like ``isAuthor()``, you should leverage custom voters. These are an order |
| 243 | +of magnitude easier than `ACL's`_ and will give you the flexibility you need |
| 244 | +in almost all cases. |
| 245 | + |
| 246 | +First, create a voter class. The following example shows a voter that implements |
| 247 | +the same ``getAuthorEmail`` logic you used above: |
| 248 | + |
| 249 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 250 | +
|
| 251 | + namespace AppBundle\Security; |
| 252 | +
|
| 253 | + use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Authorization\Voter\AbstractVoter; |
| 254 | + use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\User\UserInterface; |
| 255 | +
|
| 256 | + // AbstractVoter class requires Symfony 2.6 or higher version |
| 257 | + class PostVoter extends AbstractVoter |
| 258 | + { |
| 259 | + const CREATE = 'create'; |
| 260 | + const EDIT = 'edit'; |
| 261 | +
|
| 262 | + protected function getSupportedAttributes() |
| 263 | + { |
| 264 | + return array(self::CREATE, self::EDIT); |
| 265 | + } |
| 266 | +
|
| 267 | + protected function getSupportedClasses() |
| 268 | + { |
| 269 | + return array('AppBundle\Entity\Post'); |
| 270 | + } |
| 271 | +
|
| 272 | + protected function isGranted($attribute, $post, $user = null) |
| 273 | + { |
| 274 | + if (!$user instanceof UserInterface) { |
| 275 | + return false; |
| 276 | + } |
| 277 | +
|
| 278 | + if ($attribute === self::CREATE && in_array('ROLE_ADMIN', $user->getRoles(), true)) { |
| 279 | + return true; |
| 280 | + } |
| 281 | +
|
| 282 | + if ($attribute === self::EDIT && $user->getEmail() === $post->getAuthorEmail()) { |
| 283 | + return true; |
| 284 | + } |
| 285 | +
|
| 286 | + return false; |
| 287 | + } |
| 288 | + } |
| 289 | +
|
| 290 | +To enable the security voter in the application, define a new service: |
| 291 | + |
| 292 | +.. code-block:: yaml |
| 293 | +
|
| 294 | + # app/config/services.yml |
| 295 | + services: |
| 296 | + # ... |
| 297 | + post_voter: |
| 298 | + class: AppBundle\Security\PostVoter |
| 299 | + public: false |
| 300 | + tags: |
| 301 | + - { name: security.voter } |
| 302 | +
|
| 303 | +Now, you can use the voter with the ``@Security`` annotation: |
| 304 | + |
| 305 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 306 | +
|
| 307 | + /** |
| 308 | + * @Route("/{id}/edit", name="admin_post_edit") |
| 309 | + * @Security("is_granted('edit', post)") |
| 310 | + */ |
| 311 | + public function editAction(Post $post) |
| 312 | + { |
| 313 | + // ... |
| 314 | + } |
| 315 | +
|
| 316 | +You can also use this directly with the ``security.context`` service, or |
| 317 | +via the even easier shortcut in a controller: |
| 318 | + |
| 319 | +.. code-block:: php |
| 320 | +
|
| 321 | + /** |
| 322 | + * @Route("/{id}/edit", name="admin_post_edit") |
| 323 | + */ |
| 324 | + public function editAction($id) |
| 325 | + { |
| 326 | + $post = // query for the post ... |
| 327 | +
|
| 328 | + if (!$this->get('security.context')->isGranted('edit', $post)) { |
| 329 | + throw $this->createAccessDeniedException(); |
| 330 | + } |
| 331 | + } |
| 332 | +
|
| 333 | +Learn More |
| 334 | +---------- |
| 335 | + |
| 336 | +The `FOSUserBundle`_, developed by the Symfony community, adds support for a |
| 337 | +database-backed user system in Symfony2. It also handles common tasks like |
| 338 | +user registration and forgotten password functionality. |
| 339 | + |
| 340 | +Enable the `Remember Me feature`_ to allow your users to stay logged in for |
| 341 | +a long period of time. |
| 342 | + |
| 343 | +When providing customer support, sometimes it's necessary to access the application |
| 344 | +as some *other* user so that you can reproduce the problem. Symfony provides |
| 345 | +the ability to `impersonate users`_. |
| 346 | + |
| 347 | +If your company uses a user login method not supported by Symfony, you can |
| 348 | +develop `your own user provider`_ and `your own authentication provider`_. |
| 349 | + |
| 350 | +.. _`Security Cookbook Section`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/index.html |
| 351 | +.. _`security.yml`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/security.html |
| 352 | +.. _`ParamConverter`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle/annotations/converters.html |
| 353 | +.. _`@Security annotation`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SensioFrameworkExtraBundle/annotations/security.html |
| 354 | +.. _`security.yml`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/reference/configuration/security.html |
| 355 | +.. _`security voter`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/voters_data_permission.html |
| 356 | +.. _`Acces Control List`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/acl.html |
| 357 | +.. _`ACL's`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/acl.html |
| 358 | +.. _`expression`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/components/expression_language/introduction.html |
| 359 | +.. _`FOSUserBundle`: https://github.com/FriendsOfSymfony/FOSUserBundle |
| 360 | +.. _`Remember Me feature`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/remember_me.html |
| 361 | +.. _`impersonate users`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/impersonating_user.html |
| 362 | +.. _`your own user provider`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/custom_provider.html |
| 363 | +.. _`your own authentication provider`: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/security/custom_authentication_provider.html |
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