django-anon-lockout 2.1.0

Django module for anonymous lockout

Django Anonymous Lockout

Django anonymous lockout is a simple django module for keeping track of failed loging attemps to an endpoint that is protected by some password, but does not require authentication with an authentication backend.

It works by fetching the IP of the one making the attempt. If the attempt is successful, it stores this and the resource can be shown. If the attempt fails, the session connected to the attempt get's it's failed_in_row field incremented. If this counter exceeds the threshold (default 100), the IP address is locked out for LOCKOUT_DURATION time (default 1 day). The only time the counter is reset, is after this lockout has expired.

Installation

Djano anonymous lockout can be installed with pip:

pip install django-anon-lockout

Then add anon_lockout to INSTALLED_APPS. It can go in any order.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...,
    anon_lockout,
]

Finally migrate the models:

python manage.py migrate

Usage

Django Anonymous Lockout operates without signals, which means that you will specifically have to call the handler for it to work. The handler is specified in handlers.py (handle_attempt). It takes in the ip, wheter the attempt was failed or not and which resource was attempted accessed.

In your code, you would typically check if the password is correct and then call handle_attempt with the correct arguments. handle_attempt will return True if the attempt leads to a lockout, or the user (ip and resource) is already locked out. This means that even though a user might have "authenticated" correctly, if the ip is locked out, it will still not allow the user to see the resource.

To get the IP of an request, you can for instance use this snippet:

def get_ip(request: HttpRequest):
    """Returns the ip (hashed) of the given request."""

    user_ip: str = request.META.get("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")
    ip: str = ""
    if user_ip:
        ip = user_ip.split(",")[0]
    else:
        ip = request.META.get("REMOTE_ADDR")
    return hashlib.sha256(ip.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()

This snippet is also included in utils.py.

Example

Assuming you have a simple form with the field "password".

views.py:

def my_endpoint(request, resource_id):
    if request.method == "POST":
        form = MyForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            password = form.cleaned_data["password"]
            if correct_password(password):
                locked = handle_attempt(get_ip(request), failed=False, resource="resource")
                if not locked:
                    return redirect(request, "see-resource")
            else:
                locked = handle_attempt(get_ip(request), failed=True, resource="resource")
                # do more handling here
            if locked:
                form.add_error("password", "Locked out")
    else:
        form = MyForm()
    context = {
      "form": form,
    }
    return render(request, "anon_login.html", context)

A working, but very simple example is in tests/views.py.

Configuration

There are 2 settings that you can override:

LOCKOUT_DURATION: Decides how long a user is locked out for. Default is 1 day.

LOCKOUT_THRESHOLD: Decides how many attempts in a row that has to fail for a lockout to occur. Default is 100 attempts.

Tests

There are a few tests that makes sure the basic funtionality works. These can be run by:

python manage.py test tests.tests

Note: for this to work you would have to clone this repo. It does not work if it is included in INSTALLED_APPS.