The user page a superuser opens from the user list has an API Tokens
tab: the user's tokens with their name, first characters, creation,
expiry and last use, and a delete button for one that may have leaked.
The token itself is never shown; only its digest is kept.
The delete reuses the owner's delete view with the user's id; only a
superuser may name another user. The confirmation and the log row say
whose token it was ("API token backup of alice"); the owner's own
confirmation now reads "Delete "API token backup"?" too. The profile
and the user page share one token table, and one script that opens a
tab named in the address (#apitokens).
The API Tokens tab gets a "Last used" column, so an unused token can be
told from one a script still needs. The token's last use is written when
it authenticates, at most once a minute (accounts.auth.TokenAuthentication,
knox's class with that one addition; the API schema describes it as
knox's).
A user has at most ten tokens; a new one is refused until one is
deleted. Expired tokens do not count, and are deleted when a new token is
made.
The REST API took only the login session, so a script could not use it
without a browser. A user now makes API tokens on the profile page (API
Tokens tab): a name, and an expiry of 30, 90 or 365 days or none. The
token is shown once, on a page that is not cached, and then kept only as
a SHA-512 digest; the list shows its name, first characters, creation
and expiry, and a token is deleted there. Tools send it as
"Authorization: Token wvc_...", and act as its user, with that user's
permissions. Making and deleting a token is logged, without the token.
A password alone (HTTP Basic) still does not reach the API, as it would
skip the OTP second factor: a token is made in a session that passed the
login and its OTP. The token class comes first, so a refused request gets
401 with its challenge instead of 403.
django-rest-knox 5.1.0 provides the tokens (accounts.ApiToken adds the
name); settings.py takes "knox", KNOX_TOKEN_MODEL and REST_KNOX from the
template.
