library: staff signed in to Koha open Add books without a second login

Quick Add asks Koha (C4::Auth::check_cookie_auth via a secret-guarded svc script) whether the
browser's session may edit the catalogue; falls back to its own login otherwise. Cookie-authenticated
writes need an X-Quickadd header; the direct port never accepts cookies.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013wi3ZSot4XbUViwRFgLpRf
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Claude
2026-11-06 22:45:01 +00:00
parent 770a6a1dfb
commit 10e991e158
8 changed files with 142 additions and 20 deletions
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@@ -203,3 +203,7 @@ koha/ Dockerfile (Koha from the project's Debian repo), entrypoi
servers, label templates/layouts)
quickadd/ the scan-to-add service (Python standard library + yaz)
```
## Signing in once
Staff who are signed in to the library site (and allowed to edit the catalogue) open **Add books** without a second login. Koha itself confirms the sign-in; the shared secret is `SSO_SECRET` in `.env`. The read-only `guest` login still uses the Add books prompt, and the direct Add books port never accepts a Koha sign-in. If `SSO_SECRET` is empty, Add books just asks for its own login as before.
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@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ services:
environment:
TZ: ${TZ:-UTC}
KOHA_QUICKADD_URL: http://quickadd:8082
KOHA_SSO_SECRET: ${SSO_SECRET:-}
KOHA_DB_HOST: db
KOHA_DB_PASS: ${DB_PASSWORD}
KOHA_ADMIN_USER: ${ADMIN_USER:-admin}
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ services:
environment:
TZ: ${TZ:-UTC}
KOHA_API: http://koha:8081/api/v1
SSO_SECRET: ${SSO_SECRET:-}
ADMIN_USER: ${ADMIN_USER:-admin}
ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${ADMIN_PASSWORD}
VIEWER_USER: ${VIEWER_USER:-guest}
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@@ -127,6 +127,8 @@ ADMIN_USER=admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD=$(rand 16)
VIEWER_USER=guest
VIEWER_PASSWORD=$(rand 14)
# Lets the library site vouch for a signed-in staff user to the Add books page (no second login).
SSO_SECRET=$(rand 40)
DB_ROOT_PASSWORD=$(rand 32)
DB_PASSWORD=$(rand 32)
KOHA_SUITE=stable
@@ -142,6 +144,7 @@ else
if ! grep -q '^VIEWER_PASSWORD=' .env; then
{ echo "VIEWER_USER=guest"; echo "VIEWER_PASSWORD=$(rand 14)"; } >> .env
fi
grep -q '^SSO_SECRET=' .env || echo "SSO_SECRET=$(rand 40)" >> .env
# Existing installs keep their current public-catalogue behaviour.
grep -q '^OPAC_BIND=' .env || echo "OPAC_BIND=0.0.0.0" >> .env
if ! grep -q '^BIND_ADDR=' .env; then
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@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ RUN for c in koha-create koha-plack koha-zebra koha-rebuild-zebra koha-upgrade-s
command -v "$c" >/dev/null || { echo "BUILD ERROR: $c is missing from the image" >&2; exit 1; }; \
done
# The endpoint Quick Add uses to recognise a signed-in staff user (see the file header).
COPY quickadd-session.pl /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/svc/quickadd-session
RUN chmod 0755 /usr/share/koha/intranet/cgi-bin/svc/quickadd-session
COPY bootstrap.pl ensure.pl entrypoint.sh /opt/koha-init/
COPY seed/ /opt/koha-init/seed/
RUN chmod 0755 /opt/koha-init/entrypoint.sh && chmod -R a+rX /opt/koha-init
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@@ -60,22 +60,36 @@ if [ ! -d "/etc/koha/sites/$INST" ]; then
# (The staff and public catalogue sites cannot share one address: Koha gives both the
# same URL shapes. The staff site is the natural home for a home library.)
if [ -n "${KOHA_QUICKADD_URL:-}" ]; then
# Single sign-on for staff: when KOHA_SSO_SECRET is set, this web server tells Quick Add (via a
# secret header nobody outside can forge: it is overwritten here on every request) that the
# request came through the staff site, and Quick Add then asks Koha whether the browser's login
# cookie belongs to a staff user who may edit the catalogue. Without the secret, or if anything
# about that fails, Quick Add just asks for its own login as before.
SSO_BLOCK=""
if [ -n "${KOHA_SSO_SECRET:-}" ]; then
install -m 0640 -o root -g "$INST-koha" /dev/null /etc/koha/quickadd-sso.secret
printf '%s' "$KOHA_SSO_SECRET" > /etc/koha/quickadd-sso.secret
SSO_BLOCK=" <IfModule mod_headers.c>
<Location /add/>
RequestHeader set X-Quickadd-Proxy \"$KOHA_SSO_SECRET\"
</Location>
</IfModule>"
fi
cat > /etc/koha/apache-quickadd.conf << APACHE
<IfModule mod_proxy_http.c>
RedirectMatch ^/add\$ /add/
ProxyPass /add/ ${KOHA_QUICKADD_URL%/}/
ProxyPassReverse /add/ ${KOHA_QUICKADD_URL%/}/
${SSO_BLOCK}
</IfModule>
APACHE
sed -i 's|^\(\s*\)Include /etc/koha/apache-shared-intranet.conf|&\n\1Include /etc/koha/apache-quickadd.conf|' "/etc/apache2/sites-available/$INST.conf"
fi
# Run Apache itself as the instance user instead of mpm_itk's per-vhost
# uid switching (which needs extra capabilities and is pointless here:
# Plack does the real work as that user already).
# koha-create insists on mpm_itk being enabled, but inside a container it can
# not switch users (initgroups: Operation not permitted -> HTTP 500 on every
# page). Now that the instance exists, swap to plain prefork.
# page). Now that the instance exists, swap to plain prefork; Apache runs as the
# instance user (Plack does the real work as that user already).
rm -f /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/mpm_itk.*
a2enmod mpm_prefork >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
sed -i '/AssignUserID/d' "$SITE"
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@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Installed as .../intranet/cgi-bin/svc/quickadd-session (URL /cgi-bin/koha/svc/quickadd-session).
#
# Lets the Add books page (Quick Add) ask: "is this browser signed in to the staff site as
# someone allowed to edit the catalogue?" so staff do not have to log in a second time.
#
# It wraps Koha's own C4::Auth::check_cookie_auth (documented for exactly this: services that
# are invoked by pages authenticated in the usual way) and only answers callers that present a
# shared secret, so it cannot be used to probe sessions from outside. The browser's address is
# passed in explicitly, so Koha's "session is tied to the IP that logged in" rule keeps working.
use Modern::Perl;
use CGI qw( -utf8 );
use JSON qw( encode_json );
use Digest::SHA qw( sha256_hex );
use C4::Auth qw( check_cookie_auth );
my $q = CGI->new;
# Takes the CGI object as an argument: under Plack this file runs wrapped in a sub, where a named
# sub would otherwise see a stale copy of a file-level variable.
sub reply {
my ( $q, $status, $data ) = @_;
print $q->header( -type => 'application/json', -status => $status, -charset => 'utf-8', -cache_control => 'no-store' ),
encode_json($data);
exit;
}
# 1. The caller must know the shared secret (a file only the Koha user and root can read).
my $secret = '';
if ( open my $fh, '<', '/etc/koha/quickadd-sso.secret' ) { $secret = <$fh> // ''; $secret =~ s/\s+$//; close $fh }
my $given = $ENV{HTTP_X_QUICKADD_SECRET} // '';
reply( $q, '403 Forbidden', { status => 'forbidden' } )
unless length($secret) >= 16 && sha256_hex($given) eq sha256_hex($secret);
# 2. Plausible-looking inputs only.
my $sid = $q->param('sid') // '';
my $ip = $q->param('ip') // '';
reply( $q, '200 OK', { status => 'failed' } )
unless $sid =~ /\A[A-Za-z0-9]{16,64}\z/ && $ip =~ /\A[0-9A-Fa-f:.]{3,45}\z/;
# 3. Ask Koha. Staff who may edit the catalogue (superlibrarians always may) are let in.
my ( $status, $session ) = check_cookie_auth( $sid, { editcatalogue => 'edit_catalogue' }, { remote_addr => $ip } );
reply( $q, '200 OK', { status => 'ok', user => scalar $session->param('id') } ) if $status eq 'ok' && $session;
reply( $q, '200 OK', { status => $status || 'failed' } );
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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ KOHA_API = os.environ.get("KOHA_API", "http://koha:8081/api/v1").rstrip("/")
USER = os.environ.get("ADMIN_USER", "admin")
PASSWORD = os.environ.get("ADMIN_PASSWORD", "")
# Optional read-only login to hand out: may open the page and search, nothing else.
# Single sign-on: requests that reach us through the staff site's web server carry this secret in
# X-Quickadd-Proxy; we then ask Koha whether the browser's login cookie is a staff user who may edit
# the catalogue. Unset = feature off (only the Basic logins below work).
SSO_SECRET = os.environ.get("SSO_SECRET", "")
KOHA_SESSION_URL = KOHA_API.rsplit("/api/v1", 1)[0] + "/cgi-bin/koha/svc/quickadd-session"
VIEWER_USER = os.environ.get("VIEWER_USER", "")
VIEWER_PASSWORD = os.environ.get("VIEWER_PASSWORD", "")
LIBRARY = os.environ.get("KOHA_LIBRARY", "HOME")
@@ -782,6 +787,33 @@ def decode_photo(data, kind):
INDEX = open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "index.html"), "rb").read()
_SESSION_CACHE = {}
def koha_session_user(sid, ip):
"""Ask Koha whether this staff session may edit the catalogue. Returns the user name or None.
Any problem (Koha starting, endpoint missing, odd reply) reads as 'not signed in', which just
means Quick Add asks for its own login."""
key, now = (sid, ip), time.time()
hit = _SESSION_CACHE.get(key)
if hit and hit[0] > now:
return hit[1]
user = None
try:
req = urllib.request.Request(KOHA_SESSION_URL + "?" + urllib.parse.urlencode({"sid": sid, "ip": ip}),
headers={"X-Quickadd-Secret": SSO_SECRET})
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=4) as r:
data = json.load(r)
if data.get("status") == "ok":
user = data.get("user") or "staff"
except Exception:
user = None
if len(_SESSION_CACHE) > 500:
_SESSION_CACHE.clear()
_SESSION_CACHE[key] = (now + (20 if user else 5), user) # short: logging out takes effect quickly
return user
class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
server_version = "QuickAdd/1.0"
@@ -806,22 +838,36 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
self.wfile.write(body)
def _role(self):
"""'admin', 'viewer' (read-only guest) or None."""
"""'admin', 'viewer' (read-only guest) or None. Sets self.via to 'koha' for a staff-site login."""
self.via = None
if not PASSWORD:
return None
header = self.headers.get("Authorization", "")
if not header.startswith("Basic "):
return None
try:
u, _, p = base64.b64decode(header[6:]).decode().partition(":")
except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
return None
ub, pb = u.encode(), p.encode()
# Both comparisons always run, so timing does not reveal which account exists.
is_admin = hmac.compare_digest(ub, USER.encode()) & hmac.compare_digest(pb, PASSWORD.encode())
is_viewer = bool(VIEWER_USER and VIEWER_PASSWORD) & hmac.compare_digest(ub, VIEWER_USER.encode()) \
& hmac.compare_digest(pb, VIEWER_PASSWORD.encode())
return "admin" if is_admin else "viewer" if is_viewer else None
if header.startswith("Basic "):
try:
u, _, p = base64.b64decode(header[6:]).decode().partition(":")
except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
return None
ub, pb = u.encode(), p.encode()
# Both comparisons always run, so timing does not reveal which account exists.
is_admin = hmac.compare_digest(ub, USER.encode()) & hmac.compare_digest(pb, PASSWORD.encode())
is_viewer = bool(VIEWER_USER and VIEWER_PASSWORD) & hmac.compare_digest(ub, VIEWER_USER.encode()) \
& hmac.compare_digest(pb, VIEWER_PASSWORD.encode())
return "admin" if is_admin else "viewer" if is_viewer else None
# No Basic login: accept a staff-site login, but only for requests that came through the staff
# site's web server (it overwrites X-Quickadd-Proxy with the shared secret on every request).
if SSO_SECRET and hmac.compare_digest(self.headers.get("X-Quickadd-Proxy", "").encode(), SSO_SECRET.encode()):
sid = ""
for part in self.headers.get("Cookie", "").split(";"):
k, _, v = part.strip().partition("=")
if k == "CGISESSID":
sid = v
# the browser's address as the web server saw it: the LAST entry (the one it appended)
ip = self.headers.get("X-Forwarded-For", "").split(",")[-1].strip()
if sid and ip and koha_session_user(sid, ip):
self.via = "koha"
return "admin"
return None
def _guard(self, need_admin=True):
role = self._role()
@@ -832,6 +878,9 @@ class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
if need_admin and role != "admin":
self._send(403, {"status": "error", "message": "This login can search but not change anything."})
return False
if self.via == "koha" and self.command == "POST" and self.headers.get("X-Quickadd") != "1":
self._send(403, {"status": "error", "message": "Missing request header."})
return False
self.role = role
return True
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@@ -211,8 +211,10 @@
};
async function api(path, body) {
const r = await fetch(path.replace(/^\//, ''), body ? { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
body: JSON.stringify(body) } : {});
// X-Quickadd marks our own requests: a staff-site login (cookie) is only accepted for changes
// that carry it, which a page on another website cannot add (cross-site request forgery).
const r = await fetch(path.replace(/^\//, ''), body ? { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Quickadd': '1' },
body: JSON.stringify(body) } : { headers: { 'X-Quickadd': '1' } });
return r.json();
}
@@ -329,7 +331,7 @@
$('status').textContent = 'Reading the barcode…';
try {
const blob = await shrink(f);
const r = await fetch('api/scan?kind=' + kind, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg' }, body: blob });
const r = await fetch('api/scan?kind=' + kind, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg', 'X-Quickadd': '1' }, body: blob });
resolve(r.ok ? (await r.json()).codes : []);
} catch (e) { resolve([]); }
};