[ckan-dev] problems with api authentication

Adrià Mercader adria.mercader at okfn.org
Tue Aug 9 12:00:00 UTC 2016


Also check for new extensions that might be messing with the
authorization (ie try disabling extensions and see if it works)


Adrià

On 9 August 2016 at 12:52, Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:
> Has anything changed about your web server configuration? run curl
> with -v to see if you're getting a redirect or something. Is it
> possible the header is being stripped out along the way?
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:36 AM, Sasha Cuerda <scuerda at ctdata.org> wrote:
>> Hello Adrià,
>>
>> Yeah, that's what's so puzzling about this. I have certainly executed this
>> call before, using the same server and the same api key. I created a new
>> sysadmin account and tried using the same call w/ the new api key and
>> received the same error.
>>
>> Is there anything about the group / org permissions that would impact this
>> behavior? I would think that sysadmin's would always have permissions to
>> edit / update any dataset / resource, but I may be misunderstanding the
>> permissions system.
>>
>> Sasha
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Sasha,
>>>
>>> On 8 August 2016 at 22:17, Sasha Cuerda <scuerda at ctdata.org> wrote:
>>> > {
>>> >     "message": "Access denied: <function resource_update at
>>> > 0x7efead4c4848>
>>> > requires an authenticated user",
>>> >     "__type": "Authorization Error"
>>> > }
>>> This error occurs when there is no user logged in or an auth header
>>> was not sent at all OR the user was not found (ie the API key is
>>> incorrect). Can you double check your header name and value?
>>>
>>> Other than that your same calls work for me on master.
>>>
>>> Adrià
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