Hi Manu,



On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 3:45 PM, Manuranga Perera <[email protected]> wrote:

> 4. Role to User and Role to Group mappings will be will be stored in a DB
>>> schema maintained by carbon
>>>
>> Yes.
>>
> So it's not in LDAP?
>
Yes. The mapping is stored in a local DB, Not in LDAP

Thanks
Isura.

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Jayanga Kaushalya <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Johann Nallathamby <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nuwan,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In C5, since Groups and Roles are supposed to be treated as two
>>>> different entities, we need to clearly understand how to use them and a bit
>>>> of their implementation details. I'm listing some assumptions and questions
>>>> below, please see if the assumptions are correct and please provide answers
>>>> to the questions too.
>>>>
>>>> *Assumptions*
>>>>
>>>> 1. Groups are in the LDAP (User Store) and Roles are in the Context of
>>>> Carbon (in a DB schema introduced by WSO2 Products).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. User Store can be in Database as well. So Groups can exist in User
>>> StoreDB schema as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2. Roles are always created through a carbon admin service (MSF4J).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. We have an OSGi service as well which exposes AuthorizationStore
>>> API as a service.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3. Roles can be attached to users *and* groups.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 4. Role to User and Role to Group mappings will be will be stored in a
>>>> DB schema maintained by carbon.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>> 5. Users, Roles and Groups will all have unique identifiers (ids) so
>>>> that products don't have to maintain direct references to the their literal
>>>> values.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Another addition is Users and Groups can have attributes in C5.
>>> @Jayanga: can you confirm if this is implemented already? If not we need
>>> to track this user story.
>>>
>>
>> Yes we have this capability already implemented.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Questions*
>>>>
>>>> 1. When saving information to represent "who can do what", do we save
>>>> the role or group? Ex: GET /apis can be performed by [role or group or
>>>> both]?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Its Roles.
>>> The question "who" represents either user or group - a set of users. The
>>> mapping between resource, action (resource + action = permission) and user
>>> or group is done through roles.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 2. Do we have a concept of "default role(s)" or "internal role(s)"
>>>> which are common to all products?
>>>>
>>>
>>> So far we have not come across any requirement for "default" roles. But
>>> that would depend on the products I guess. E.g. in APIM we would need
>>> publisher and subscriber roles.
>>>
>>> There will be no concept of "internal" roles because technically roles
>>> are anyway internal to IS. Only groups can be external in a user store.
>>> Earlier we had the concept of "internal" roles because we treated both
>>> groups and roles as roles. So groups were called "external roles" and roles
>>> were called "internal roles".
>>>
>>>
>>>> 3. Are roles common across all user stores? If my assumption (1) is
>>>> correct, the answer should be yes I guess.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> NuwanD.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Nuwan Dias
>>>>
>>>> Software Architect - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com
>>>> email : [email protected]
>>>> Phone : +94 777 775 729 <+94%2077%20777%205729>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>
>>> *Johann Dilantha Nallathamby*
>>> Technical Lead & Product Lead of WSO2 Identity Server
>>> Governance Technologies Team
>>> WSO2, Inc.
>>> lean.enterprise.middleware
>>>
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>>>
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