[SUCS Devel] [Git][sucssite/sucs-site][sucs-site] Fix signup validation. Emails, names and addresses are now much less strict, and…
Imran Hussain
imranh at sucs.org
Wed Sep 27 10:53:05 BST 2017
Imran Hussain pushed to branch sucs-site at sucssite / sucs-site
Commits:
de4a21e5 by gigosaurus at 2017-09-27T10:52:49+01:00
Fix signup validation. Emails, names and addresses are now much less strict, and more valid postcodes are allowed.
- - - - -
3 changed files:
- components/signup.php
- components/signupajax.php
- lib/validation.php
Changes:
=====================================
components/signup.php
=====================================
--- a/components/signup.php
+++ b/components/signup.php
@@ -84,18 +84,18 @@ if (isset($_REQUEST['signupid']) && isset($_REQUEST['signuppw'])) {
$errors['address'] = $error;
}
$fields['address'] = sanitizeAddress($_POST['address']);
- if (!validRealName($_REQUEST['realname'], $override)) {
+ if (!validName($_REQUEST['realname'], $override)) {
$valid = false;
$errors['realname'] = $error;
}
$fields['realname'] = $_REQUEST['realname'];
} else {
- if (!(validRealName($_REQUEST['contact'], false) || $override)) {
+ if (!(validName($_REQUEST['contact'], false) || $override)) {
$valid = false;
$errors['contact'] = $error;
}
$fields['contact'] = $_REQUEST['contact'];
- if (!validSocName($_REQUEST['realname'], $override)) {
+ if (!validName($_REQUEST['realname'], $override)) {
$valid = false;
$errors['realname'] = $error;
}
=====================================
components/signupajax.php
=====================================
--- a/components/signupajax.php
+++ b/components/signupajax.php
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ if (isset($_GET['key'])) {
break;
case "realname":
$realname = $_GET['value'];
- if (validRealName($realname, false)) {
+ if (validName($realname, false)) {
echo "OK";
} else {
echo $error;
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ if (isset($_GET['key'])) {
break;
case "socname":
$socname = $_GET['value'];
- if (validSocName($socname, false)) {
+ if (validName($socname, false)) {
echo "OK";
} else {
echo $error;
=====================================
lib/validation.php
=====================================
--- a/lib/validation.php
+++ b/lib/validation.php
@@ -7,18 +7,22 @@ require_once("sanitization.php");
function validEmail($email)
{
global $error;
- //split user and domain
- list($user, $domain) = explode("@", $email);
- // check for bad characters, and check for zero length user & domain
- if (!preg_match("/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i", $email) or !$user or !$domain) {
- $error = 'an invalid email address (syntax)';
+
+ // check for valid syntax
+ if (!filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)) {
+ $error = 'Invalid email address (syntax)';
return false;
}
+
// Syntax OK
+ // domain consists of any character after a '@' and cannot contain '@'
+ // therefore any character after the last '@' is part of the domain
+ $domain = substr($email, strrpos($email, '@') + 1);
+
// Check for an mail server
- elseif (!getmxrr($domain, $mx) or !gethostbyname($domain)) {
- $error = "no mail servers listed for '$domain'";
+ if (!getmxrr($domain, $mx) or !gethostbyname($domain)) {
+ $error = "No mail servers listed for '$domain'";
return false;
} else {
// Email address valid from technical point of view
@@ -26,41 +30,6 @@ function validEmail($email)
}
}
-// test whether a password is considered Strong Enough
-// ideally we'd want to use cracklib or something here, but no RPM for the php bindings :-(
-// dont use this, use weakPassword instead it uses cracklib
-function strongPassword($pass)
-{
-
- // you call this a password? my cat could bruteforce this.
- if (strlen($pass) < 6) {
- return false;
- }
-
-// start at 0, and increment for certain features
- $score = 0;
-
-
-// greater than 8 characters
- if (strlen($pass) > 8) $score++;
-// includes lowercase characters
- if (preg_match("/[a-z]/", $pass)) $score++;
-// includes uppercase characters
- if (preg_match("/[A-Z]/", $pass)) $score++;
-// includes digits
- if (preg_match("/\d/", $pass)) $score++;
-// includes "non-word" characters
- if (preg_match("/\W/", $pass)) $score++;
-
-// I reckons if it has at least 3 of the above it should be... adequate
-// better if it checked for dictionary words too though
- if ($score > 3) {
- return true;
- } else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
# Use cracklib to check for weak passwords.
# returns FALSE if the password is good i.e. not weak
# otherwise returns a string saying why its weak
@@ -112,7 +81,7 @@ function isAlias($username)
return $ok;
}
-//check if a user with a sid already exsists
+//check if a user with a sid already exists
function sidUsed($sid)
{
$sucsDB = NewADOConnection('postgres8');
@@ -127,12 +96,12 @@ function sidUsed($sid)
function validUsername($username)
{
global $error;
- // check if uname is sytactically valid
+ // check if uname is syntactically valid
$syntax = preg_match("/^[a-z][a-z0-9_]*$/", $username);
if (!$syntax || (strlen($username) < 2)) {
- $error = "Usernames must start with a letter, only contain lowercase letter, numbers 0-9 and underscores (_) and be at least 2 characters.";
+ $error = "Usernames must start with a letter, only contain lowercase letters, numbers 0-9 and underscores (_) and be at least 2 characters.";
return false;
- } // check if the username already exsists
+ } // check if the username already exists
elseif (posix_getpwnam($username)) {
$error = "Username already taken";
return false;
@@ -171,7 +140,7 @@ function validSID($SID, $override)
}
}
-function validRealName($realName, $override)
+function validName($realName, $override)
{
global $error;
if ($override) {
@@ -182,56 +151,12 @@ function validRealName($realName, $override)
return true;
}
} else {
- //check for enough names for real name (we insist on at least 2
- if (count(explode(" ", $realName)) < 2) {
- $error = "Too few names given, please give at least two.";
- return false;
- } //check for a sane realname, see comment below
- elseif (!preg_match("/^([A-Z]([.]+ +[A-Z])*([\']+[A-Z])*[a-z]+[ -]*)+$/", $realName)) {
- $error = "Name incorrectly formatted, email <a href=\"mailto:admin at sucs.org\">admin at sucs.org</a> if this is an error.";
- return false;
- } /*
- * This should force sane real names, with capitals for the first letter of each word,
- * Whist alowing for complex names such as Robin M. O'Leary
- *
- * break down of regexp
- *
- * (
- * [A-Z] - start with a single capital
- * ([.]+ +[A-Z])* - zero or more of, (at least one "." followed by at least one space then another single capital) //we dont expect people to have initals at the end of there names so this is alright
- * ([\']+[A-Z])* - zero or more of, (at least one "'"s followed by a single capital letter)
- * [a-z]+ - One or more lower case letters, this forces initals to be followed by a "."
- *[ -]* - zero or more " "s or "-"s so double barreled names are supported
- * )
- *
- * In its current state
- * Robin M. O'Leary is valid
- * Robin M O'Leary is not
- * Robin M. OLeary is Not
- * Robin M. O'LeaRy is valid (though its not meant to be.. bad side effect of not requireing at least one space...)
- * BUT... this alows for McSmith's... which is rather nice :)... and of course delibrate
- * RObin M O'Leary is not
- *
- */
- else {
- return true;
- }
- }
-}
-function validSocName($socname, $override)
-{
- global $error;
- if ($override) {
- if ($socname == "") {
- $error = "You MUST provide some sort of name";
- return false;
- } else {
- return true;
- }
- } else {
- if (!preg_match('/^[A-Z1-9]/', $socname) || strlen($socname) < 2) {
- $error = "Must start with a capital letter or a number and be more than 1 character";
+ // names can legally be really weird so just check that it is at least 1 visible character
+ // followed by any number of non-control characters
+ $realName = trim($realName);
+ if (!preg_match("/^[[:graph:]][[:print:]]*$/", $realName)) {
+ $error = "Invalid name";
return false;
} else {
return true;
@@ -243,9 +168,11 @@ function validAddress($address)
{
global $error;
$address = sanitizeAddress($address);
- $regex = "/^([A-Z0-9]([[:alnum:]]|[ .\/'-])*\n)+[A-Z0-9]([[:alnum:]]|[ .\/'-])*$/";
+
+ // check that they at least entered in something. Address doesn't need to be as strict when the postcode is.
+ $regex = "/^.{5,}+$/s";
if (!preg_match($regex, $address)) {
- $error = "Please supply at least two valid lines of address.";
+ $error = "Please supply a valid address.";
return false;
} else {
return true;
@@ -255,7 +182,10 @@ function validAddress($address)
function validPostcode($postcode)
{
$postcode = sanitizePostcode($postcode);
- if (!preg_match('/^[A-Z]{1,2}[0-9]{1,2}[A-Z]{0,1} [0-9][A-Z]{2}$/', $postcode)) {
+
+ // matches all postcodes following the valid format described in a 2012 government published document
+ $postcodeRegex = "/^([A-Z](([0-9][0-9]?)|([A-Z][0-9][0-9]?)|([A-Z]?[0-9][A-Z])) ?[0-9][ABD-HJLNP-UW-Z]{2})$/";
+ if (!preg_match($postcodeRegex, $postcode)) {
return false;
} else {
return $postcode;
View it on GitLab: https://projects.sucs.org/sucssite/sucs-site/commit/de4a21e51999ec60a3a7baac346c7b4564b705c2
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