from datetime import date from django.conf import settings from django.utils.http import int_to_base36, base36_to_int class PasswordResetTokenGenerator(object): """ Stratgy object used to generate and check tokens for the password reset mechanism. """ def make_token(self, user): """ Returns a token that can be used once to do a password reset for the given user. """ return self._make_token_with_timestamp(user, self._num_days(self._today())) def check_token(self, user, token): """ Check that a password reset token is correct for a given user. """ # Parse the tokem try: ts_b36, hash = token.split("-") except ValueError: return False try: ts = base36_to_int(ts_b36) except ValueError: return False # Check that the timestamp/uid has not been tampered with if self._make_token_with_timestamp(user, ts) != token: return False # Check the timestamp is within limit if (self._num_days(self._today()) - ts) > settings.PASSWORD_RESET_TIMEOUT_DAYS: return False return True def _make_token_with_timestamp(self, user, timestamp): # timestamp is number of days since 2001-1-1. Converted to # base 36, this gives us a 3 digit string until about 2121 ts_b36 = int_to_base36(timestamp) # By hashing on the internal state of the user and using state # that is sure to change (the password salt will change as soon as # the password is set, at least for current Django auth, and # last_login will also change), we produce a hash that will be # invalid as soon as it is used. # We limit the hash to 20 chars to keep URL short import sha hash = sha.new(settings.SECRET_KEY + unicode(user.id) + user.password + unicode(user.last_login) + unicode(timestamp)).hexdigest()[::2] return "%s-%s" % (ts_b36, hash) def _num_days(self, dt): return (dt - date(2001,1,1)).days def _today(self): # Used for mocking in tests return date.today() default_token_generator = PasswordResetTokenGenerator()