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Security by obscurity #165

@s1037989

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@s1037989

Leave the admin functionality disabled when oauth not provided, but enable an obfuscated route that enables admin in the session and redirects to /

Something like this code snippet:

unless ( $self->config->{oauth} ) {
  my $obfuscated = $self->config->{obfuscated} || $self->random();
  $self->log->info("Obfuscated admin route is $obfuscated");
  $r->get("/$obfuscated")->to(cb=>sub{shift->redirect_to('/')});
}

sub random {
  my $self = shift;
  my $file = $self->home->rel_file('.obfuscated');
  return slurp $file if -e $file;
  my $random = md5(rand());
  spurt $file, $random;
  return $random;
}

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