This patch adds an endpoint for /auth/password/validation
This allows a third-party, using an authenticated and authorized Koha
API user, to check if the username and password given by a user is
correct in Koha.
For example, a Keycloak extension can be created using its
User Storage SPI to use Koha as the user database for Keycloak. This
API allows us to authenticate the user as a particular Koha user - without
creating a Koha user session for them.
Test plan:
0. Apply patch and koha-plack --restart kohadev
1. Go to http://localhost:8081/cgi-bin/koha/admin/preferences.pl?op=search&searchfield=RESTBasicAuth
2. Enable "RESTBasicAuth"
3. Run the following commands while substituting correct values for <koha_user> and <koha_password>
3. curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u <koha_user>:<koha_password> http://localhost:8081/api/v1/auth/password/validation -d '{ "username": "<koha_username">, "password": "<koha_password>" }' -v
4. Note "204 No Content" response
5. curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u <koha_user>:<koha_password> http://localhost:8081/api/v1/auth/password/validation -d '{ "username": "<koha_username">, "password": "this is definitely not the password" }' -v
6. Note "400 Bad Request" response and error message {"error":"Validation failed"}
Signed-off-by: David Nind <david@davidnind.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@theke.io>