more, and more legible, debug messages in the cert verification area

[sfa.git] / sfa / trust / credential.py

diff --git a/sfa/trust/credential.py b/sfa/trust/credential.py
index 7f78682..1ceb975 100644 (file)
--- a/sfa/trust/credential.py
+++ b/sfa/trust/credential.py
@@ -854,11 +854,16 @@ class Credential(object):
         # If caller explicitly passed in None that means skip cert chain validation.
         # - Strange and not typical
         if trusted_certs is not None:
-            # Verify the gids of this cred and of its parents
+            # Verify the caller and object gids of this cred and of its parents
             for cur_cred in self.get_credential_list():
-                cur_cred.get_gid_object().verify_chain(trusted_cert_objects)
-                cur_cred.get_gid_caller().verify_chain(trusted_cert_objects)
-
+                # check both the caller and the subject 
+                for gid in cur_cred.get_gid_object(), cur_cred.get_gid_caller():
+                    logger.debug("Credential.verify: verifying chain {}"
+                                 .format(gid.pretty_cert()))
+                    logger.debug("Credential.verify: against trusted {}"
+                                 .format(" ".join(trusted_certs)))
+                    gid.verify_chain(trusted_cert_objects)
+                        
         refs = []
         refs.append("Sig_{}".format(self.get_refid()))
 
@@ -1106,29 +1111,36 @@ class Credential(object):
         return getattr(self,'filename',None)
 
     def actual_caller_hrn(self):
-        """a helper method used by some API calls like e.g. Allocate
+        """
+        a helper method used by some API calls like e.g. Allocate
         to try and find out who really is the original caller
 
         This admittedly is a bit of a hack, please USE IN LAST RESORT
 
         This code uses a heuristic to identify a delegated credential
 
-        A first known restriction if for traffic that gets through a slice manager
-        in this case the hrn reported is the one from the last SM in the call graph
-        which is not at all what is meant here"""
+        A first known restriction if for traffic that gets through a
+        slice manager in this case the hrn reported is the one from
+        the last SM in the call graph which is not at all what is
+        meant here
+        """
 
-        caller_hrn = self.get_gid_caller().get_hrn()
-        issuer_hrn = self.get_signature().get_issuer_gid().get_hrn()
+        caller_hrn, caller_type = urn_to_hrn(self.get_gid_caller().get_urn())
+        issuer_hrn, issuer_type = urn_to_hrn(self.get_signature().get_issuer_gid().get_urn())
         subject_hrn = self.get_gid_object().get_hrn()
+        # if the caller is a user and the issuer is not
+        # it's probably the former
+        if caller_type == "user" and issuer_type != "user":
+            actual_caller_hrn = caller_hrn
         # if we find that the caller_hrn is an immediate descendant of the issuer, then
         # this seems to be a 'regular' credential
-        if caller_hrn.startswith(issuer_hrn):
-            actual_caller_hrn=caller_hrn
+        elif caller_hrn.startswith(issuer_hrn):
+            actual_caller_hrn = caller_hrn
         # else this looks like a delegated credential, and the real caller is the issuer
         else:
-            actual_caller_hrn=issuer_hrn
+            actual_caller_hrn = issuer_hrn
         logger.info("actual_caller_hrn: caller_hrn={}, issuer_hrn={}, returning {}"
-                    .format(caller_hrn,issuer_hrn,actual_caller_hrn))
+                    .format(caller_hrn, issuer_hrn, actual_caller_hrn))
         return actual_caller_hrn
 
     ##