security updates:
various commands that change or create account passwords now disallow
the user name, display name or email from being contained in it. this
will force users to not use public information inside the password,
hardening password security a little.
the root user name is now changeable and required to be changed on
initial login. this harden security a little by giving host admins the
option to not have a well known user name attached to a high privileged
account.
users can no longer re-use the old password and/or user name when
required to change. however, this does not actually implement full
password history because the user can then later change the password
back to the old password after the required change.
the host can longer block by ip addresses and the auto block threshold
setting has been removed. something like this is best left up to
firewalls, routers, switches or any other networking infrastructure. in
the future i can consider adding event triggering that run certain
admin defined external or internal commands when the host detects
certain event thresholds.
minor changes/bug fixes:
all commands that change or create user names now no longer accept
user names that looks like an mail address. this works out better for
clients when differentiating logging in via user name or email address.
the recover_acct command now also have cancel on blank text options
making it more consistent with all other commands that take text input.
resetting the root user's account password via command line now also
unlocks it if locked.
the -help and -about command line options no longer display the
default password. a new -default_pw option was added for this purpose.
the -status -addr or -stop command line options require super user
privileges to run properly depending on how the host is installed.
an error message like "permission denied" was addded on failure to
make this requirement clear to the end user.
fs_copy and fs_move now does implicit skip on error instead of stop on
error.
the IDLE frame type id now carry an integer return code that can be
interpreted by clients to determine the result of the command that was
sent to the host.
house keeping:
all documentation was updated to reflect the changes made in this commit.
the module tester example is no longer relevant to this project so it
was deleted.
changed the default installattion used in the linux_build.sh
script to create an installer that deauly installs the
application data files in the /var fold folder instead of
the user specific folder in /home.
also made it so it will now create a system user named after
the name of the application and use that user to run the
systemd service instead of the currently logged in user.
doing this harded system security by having the application
run as an under privileged user. this also opens up the
possibility to lock down direct writing access to the host
database to just the internal module (in a future update).
removed the -start command line argument and have just the
-host option to start new host instances. the -start option
would start the host as the current user so i decided to
remove it as a way to encourage end users to start/stop the
host via systemd.
fixed some errors found in the documentation and fully updated the internal
commands docs as well.
also updated the internal module to now respond to KILL_CMD so it can now be
signaled to terminate gracefully.
-the add_mod command now requires the -mod_path argument as it should.
-the session now filter out bad NEW_CMD frames based on bad command names and incorrect
frame sizes.
-modules running in list mode can now send ERR frames to the session to log error
messages to the host database.
Moved away from QPluginLoader to C/C++ style QLibrary files for the
module interface. It's less limiting this way because the host can
be built statically and still beable to load non-statically built
modules. It's not tested but the i think it should now beable to
load modules built on a different version of Qt than the host but
the module would must likely need to be build statically.
Another change to the module interface makes it so the module can
can now also see the host version in CommandLoader::hostRevOk()
and decide if the host can continue loading it.
The host 'host_info' internal command now displays the version of
Qt it was built on.
All documentation related to the module interface has been
updated. No attempt will be made at the host side to support rev
2 modules so the new minimum rev is now 3.
1.0.2 --> 1.1.2
