REST multi factor

A multi factor implementation for the django rest framework

Overview

A package that allows for a flexible multi factor implementation.

Requirements

• Python (3.5, 3.6, 3.7)
• Django (1.11 or 2.2+)
• Django rest framework (3.10+)

installation

Install using pip

$ pip install rest-multi-factor

Or if you wan't to include QR-codes for the registration responses of devices like TOTP (for google authenticator) use

$ pip install rest-multi-factor[qr]

Add "rest_multi_factor" to INSTALLED_APPS in you're django settings. For the different multi factor types like TOTP (for google authenticator) you also need to add the plugin name.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    # ...
    "rest_multi_factor",
    "rest_multi_factor.plugins.totp",
]

It is advised to add django-rest-knox as you're token manager. Please read the 'security concerns' section below before implementation.

Resource description

Terminology

Overview

Security concerns

With default configuration are a few security concerns that you might want to solve within you're application:

REST framework's authtoken Vs. knox

While by default the rest_framework's authtoken app is configured, do we advice to use knox. This is because knox hashes the tokens before they are stored in the database.

To resolve this issue you can set the following configurations:

REST_MULTI_FACTOR = {
    "AUTH_TOKEN_MODEL": "knox.AuthToken",
}

and install knox as described here: http://james1345.github.io/django-rest-knox/installation/#installing-knox

Please note: Because django has no (public) swappable relation mechanism is it advices to do this before you make the migrations. Otherwise you have to remove the migrations, change the settings and re-make the migrations.

MultiFactorRegistrationViewSet permissions

By default will the registration use the IsVerifiedOrNoDevice. This will allow a user that has no registered devices to register a device for himself before he can continue. If you don't need this behaviour it is strongly advised to override the view like this:

"""Viewsets within foobar/viewsets.py"""

from rest_multi_factor.viewsets import MultiFactorRegistrationViewSet
from rest_multi_factor.permissions import IsVerified

class RegistrationViewSet(MultiFactorRegistrationViewSet):
    """Private registration viewset."""
    
    permission_classes = (IsVerified,)

Than you can update you're urls.py like this:

"""Urls within project/urls.py"""

from django.conf.urls import url, include

from rest_multi_factor.routers import MultiFactorVerifierRouter
from rest_multi_factor.routers import MultiFactorRegisterRouter
from rest_multi_factor.viewsets import MultiFactorVerifierViewSet

from foobar.viewsets import RegistrationViewSet

verifier_router = MultiFactorVerifierRouter()
verifier_router.register("", MultiFactorVerifierViewSet, "multi-factor")

register_router = MultiFactorRegisterRouter()
register_router.register(
"register", RegistrationViewSet, "multi-factor-register"
)


urlpatterns = [
    url(r"^multi-factor/", include(verifier_router.urls)),
    url(r"^multi-factor/", include(register_router.urls)),
]