Closed hackfisher closed 7 years ago
Accessing restricted API's
You can restrict API's to particular users by specifying an apiaccess file in config.ini. Here is an example apiaccess file which allows user bytemaster with password supersecret to access four different API's, while allowing any other user to access the three public API's necessary to use the wallet:
{ "permission_map" : [ [ "bytemaster", { "password_hash_b64" : "9e9GF7ooXVb9k4BoSfNIPTelXeGOZ5DrgOYMj94elaY=", "password_salt_b64" : "INDdM6iCi/8=", "allowed_apis" : ["database_api", "network_broadcast_api", "history_api", "network_node_api"] } ], [ "", { "password_hash_b64" : "", "password_salt_b64" : "", "allowed_apis" : ["database_api", "network_broadcast_api", "history_api"] } ] ] } Passwords are stored in base64 as salted sha256 hashes. A simple Python script, saltpass.py is avaliable to obtain hash and salt values from a password. A single asterisk "" may be specified as username or password hash to accept any value.
With the above configuration, here is an example of how to call add_node from the network_node API:
{"id":1, "method":"call", "params":[1,"login",["bytemaster", "supersecret"]]} {"id":2, "method":"call", "params":[1,"network_node",[]]} {"id":3, "method":"call", "params":[2,"add_node",["127.0.0.1:9090"]]} Note, the call to network_node is necessary to obtain the correct API identifier for the network API. It is not guaranteed that the network API identifier will always be 2.
Since the network_node API requires login, it is only accessible over the websocket RPC. Our doxygen documentation contains the most up-to-date information about API's for the witness node https://bitshares.github.io/doxygen/namespacegraphene_1_1app.html and the wallet https://bitshares.github.io/doxygen/classgraphene_1_1wallet_1_1wallet__api.html. If you want information which is not available from an API, it might be available from the database https://bitshares.github.io/doxygen/classgraphene_1_1chain_1_1database.html; it is fairly simple to write API methods to expose database methods.
Tested on testnet.