Hi,

I created the tickets but cannot assign or change anything on them - who
can edit permissions there ?

thomas


On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:36 PM Serge Huber <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Thomas,
>
> I think all your proposition make a lot of sense (of course since we
> discussed them first :)). I vote that we first implement a token system and
> that we can always improve this further. Ideally we should have one token
> per accepted server, not a single one for all external services.
>
> I see you have already created the ticket, I’ll add your proposition down
> here to the ticket for more details.
>
> cheers,
>   Serge…
>
>
> > On 1 févr. 2016, at 13:26, Thomas Draier <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have some security concerns with the merge actions. Currently, anybody
> > can manually send a login event with some properties, and merge his data
> > with existing profiles. He can easily corrupt existing profile or get
> > private data of this user, as the 2 users will be "merged".
> >
> > First thing is that, in my opinion, login event should only be accepted
> by
> > trusted tiers - we need to be able to authenticate the event sender in
> some
> > way - simple solution would be to use a secret token, but we could
> > implement more secure things with a certificate. In all cases, we should
> > not let the client send a login event and trigger as user merge on
> > untrusted information.
> >
> > Some properties should not be directly writeable by a user, even on its
> own
> > profile. Changing  the j:nodename property, which is used by the default
> > login rule (could be any other property), could be a security issue.
> > Actually, the "merge" action should only be done on trusted properties
> that
> > would be read only, even for their owner. The "systemproperties" map
> could
> > be a good candidate. Currently the profile end point allows to completely
> > save a profile, this should be a little bit restricted.
> >
> > I also have another concern about profile merging - if a users logs in
> with
> > 2 different profiles (send 2 login events, with different usernames) ,
> both
> > profiles are merged. This can give some very unexpected results if you
> > share your computer with somebody ... Merging one anonymous profile with
> an
> > identified user make sense, but merging 2 identified profiles look rather
> > strange. I would rather switch profile in that case.
> >
> > What do you think ?
> >
> > Regard
> >
> > thomas
>
>

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