How can I restrict Dashboard users? I have installed the gateway app that ships with the sandbox site, but as far as I can tell, users are just approved automatically for dashboard access. Obviously this is a security concern. I have already blocked non-authenticated users from viewing portions of the site, but I need to be able to restrict/approve access to the dashboard.
The way I see it, I would have to write a custom view/form to be able to do it from the dashboard, and have the pending account registration feed to that.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Relevant code:
import logging
from django.views import generic
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib import messages
from django.core.mail import send_mail
from django import http
from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
from django.template.loader import get_template
from django.template import Context
from apps.gateway import forms
from oscar.apps.customer.forms import generate_username
logger = logging.getLogger('gateway')
class GatewayView(generic.FormView):
template_name = 'gateway/form.html'
form_class = forms.GatewayForm
def form_valid(self, form):
real_email = form.cleaned_data['email']
username = generate_username()
password = generate_username()
email = 'dashboard-user-%[email protected]' % username
user = self.create_dashboard_user(username, email, password)
self.send_confirmation_email(real_email, user, password)
logger.info("Created dashboard user #%d for %s",
user.id, real_email)
messages.success(
self.request,
"The credentials for a dashboard user have been sent to %s" % real_email)
return http.HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('gateway'))
def create_dashboard_user(self, username, email, password):
user = User.objects.create_user(username, email, password)
user.is_staff = True
user.save()
return user
def send_confirmation_email(self, real_email, user, password):
msg = get_template('gateway/email.txt').render(Context({
'email': user.email,
'password': password
}))
send_mail('Dashboard access to Oscar sandbox',
msg, '[email protected]',
[real_email])
https://github.com/django-oscar/django-oscar/blob/master/sites/sandbox/apps/gateway/views.py This just automatically creates an is_staff user, as long as the email is valid.
So the solution I eventually used was to restrict gateway access to superusers. As the app already uses the
django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware
It has access to the user model.
I placed an if block in the gateway email request template form.html
:
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
{% if user.is_superuser %}
<email form>
{% else %}
<insufficient user privileges partial template>
{% endif %}
<not logged in partial template>
{% endif %}
Similarly for the retail access, I used
{% if user.is_authenticated %}
{% if user.is_staff%}
<email form>
{% else %}
<insufficient user privileges partial template>
{% endif %}
<not logged in partial template>
{% endif %}
This way, only superusers can create staff members, and both staff members and superusers can create retail accounts.