[SR-Users] Authentication Feature Question

Daniel-Constantin Mierla miconda at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 16:58:28 CET 2012


Hello,

On 1/3/12 4:48 PM, Ali Jawad wrote:
> Hi Daniel
>
> Please see
>
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:184]: allocate 8 bytes for rows at 0xb7b78d74
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_row.c:119]: allocate 20 bytes for row
> values at 0xb7b78dac
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_val.c:117]: converting STRING
> [6f966cd9c628f14cdc20172f96a4d065]
>   5(18649) DEBUG: auth [api.c:210]: check_response: Our result =
> '6f95e6235edca0b7765042ef119fd83b'
>   5(18649) DEBUG: auth [api.c:220]: check_response: Authorization failed
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:81]: freeing 1 columns
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:85]: freeing RES_NAMES[0] at 0xb7b78d3c
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:94]: freeing result names at 0xb7b78bfc
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:99]: freeing result types at 0xb7b78c64
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:54]: freeing 1 rows
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_row.c:97]: freeing row values at 0xb7b78dac
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:62]: freeing rows at 0xb7b78d74
>   5(18649) DEBUG:<core>  [db_res.c:136]: freeing result set at 0xb7b78bb0
>   5(18649) DEBUG: auth [challenge.c:102]: build_challenge_hf: realm='nymgo.com'
>   5(18649) DEBUG: auth [challenge.c:244]: auth: 'WWW-Authenticate:
> Digest realm="domain.com", nonce="TwMcuk8DG47SLxatlNdZfyfR8p3OiyAE"
> '
>
> I rebuilt the hashes against domain.com and then tried to connect to
> sip1.domain.com and sip2.domain.com and sip3.domain.com with all of
> the having
>
>
> # ----- auth_db params -----
> #!ifdef WITH_AUTH
> modparam("auth_db", "db_url", DBURL)
> modparam("auth_db", "calculate_ha1", 0  )
> modparam("auth_db", "password_column", "ha1")
> modparam("auth_db", "load_credentials", "")
> modparam("auth_db", "use_domain", MULTIDOMAIN)
>
> And in the routing process :
>
>     if (!www_authorize("domain.com", "subscriber"))
>                  {
>
>                          www_challenge("domain.com", "0");
>                          exit;
>                  }
>
>
> +++++++++++++
>
> My point is that the hashes are caculated from user:doman:pwd which
> are extracted from the SIP packet and in this case the domains are
> sip1,sip2,sip3 while the hashes stored in the database are generated
> against domain.com
>
> If " ha1 is actually hash over 'user:realm:pwd' " shouldn't I have to
> set the domain/realm in the config file ?

the first parameter in www_authorize and www_challenge functions is the 
realm and it is used to build the digest response.

Is your phone putting user at domain in authorization header? Can you paste 
here the ngrep of registration?

Cheers,
Daniel

>
> I might be wrong....thanks for the help so far.
>
> Regards
>
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
> <miconda at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> On 1/3/12 4:12 PM, Ali Jawad wrote:
>>> Hi Daniel
>>> This certainly makes sense, I will try it in a few mins, but what I
>>> observed at Debug Level 3 is that Hash is calculated before
>>> www_authenticate is executed and it shows HA comparison failed, if I
>>> do use domain.com instead of $fd and use $domain.com in db domain
>>> field and build HA1 filed based on that, wont Kamailio still try to
>>> build the HA1 hash which it will compare form user:domain:pwd where
>>> domain is fed in to the hash function from the header of the SIP
>>> packet ?
>>
>> the ha1 is actually hash over 'user:realm:pwd' -- it is just common practice
>> to use the domain as realm, since realm should be a unique token to identify
>> the service, but it can  be any random string. realm is given as parameter
>> to auth functions in kamailio.cfg
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Daniel-Constantin Mierla
>>> <miconda at gmail.com>    wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> you can simply use 'domain.com' as realm parameter to authentication
>>>> function instead of $fd. Also build ha1 and ha1b with domain.com and then
>>>> you are safe no matter which sip server is used.
>>>>
>>>> Of course you can build the realm by striping first token before '.' in
>>>> $fd
>>>> and pass it to authentication functions, but not sure if makes sense
>>>> since
>>>> it should be always domain.com
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/3/12 3:15 PM, Ali Jawad wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> After some research it seems to me that the only way to achieve this
>>>>> is to "try" and change how hashing is done in the source code, a
>>>>> little bit too ambitious for me, and it means I will have loads of
>>>>> problems each time an upgrade is released.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or
>>>>>
>>>>> Use pseudovariables to fix the value of the $fd value to something
>>>>> constant, while this worked for values like $var(y) I was not able to
>>>>> assign/strip $fd to remove the subdomain part.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any input please ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ali Jawad<ali.jawad at splendor.net>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> I do have 3 Kamailio servers, one for mobile phone registrations, one
>>>>>> for softphone registrations and one for SIP device registrations. Each
>>>>>> of those devices connects to it's perspective kamailio server
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sip1.domain.com
>>>>>> sip2.domain.com
>>>>>> sip3.domain.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> All 3 Kamailio servers share the same database, and users can use
>>>>>> their kamailio user/pwd on any of the devices, now I want to use
>>>>>> encrypted passwords and remove clear text passwords from the database.
>>>>>> I did test with one server and all is fine,however if a user want to
>>>>>> register from the second kamailio server it does not work, basically
>>>>>> because the db domain entry from which the hash is created is
>>>>>> sip1.domain.com and stored in the db, while the user connects from to
>>>>>> sip2.domain.com this eventually generates a different hash.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anyway to overcome this ? Can I exclude Domain from Hash
>>>>>> generation ? Any other option that allows me to do the above ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- http://www.asipto.com
>>>> http://linkedin.com/in/miconda -- http://twitter.com/miconda
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel-Constantin Mierla -- http://www.asipto.com
>>> http://linkedin.com/in/miconda -- http://twitter.com/miconda
>
>

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