On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Thomas Mortagne <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Eduard Moraru <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > For 7.2, we are introducing a new right to control permissions on the
> >> > execution of scripts.
> >> >
> >> > Right now, out of all the scripts we support, Velocity is special and
> >> does
> >> > not require programming rights, since it uses only the public API. Of
> >> > course, if it has PR available, it can also access privileged API. All
> >> > other scripts (groovy, python, etc) require PR by default.
> >> >
> >> > The new 'script' right should be used to control "light"/sandboxed
> >> > scripting, such as velocity or any other scripts that are configured
> to
> >> > consider this new right when executing (assuming they override the
> >> standard
> >> > PR check).
> >>
> >> We actually do have another one already, a custom version of Groovy
> >> JSR223 engine done by Vincent.
> >> All that to say that you should probably also update
> >> org.xwiki.rendering.internal.macro.groovy.GroovyMacroPermissionPolicy
> >> in xwiki-platform-rendering-macro-groovy module.
> >>
> >
> > I have noticed it, but did not touch it since I see it has a custom way
> of
> > restricting execution (it sets a 'secure' flag in the groovy
> configuration
> > that tells it to consider if the macro transformation context is
> restricted
> > or not and, if not restricted, it does not need PR, but delegates to a
> > Groovy dedicated security customizer) and if that is not used/configured,
> > it falls back to programming rights.
> >
> > Do you think we need to or should do more than that for Groovy? If not
> > custom security customizer is set, then PR decide if a groovy script runs
> > or not (which is often the case). And if so, what do you propose?
>
> I know how it's working and the goal of this customisation is allow
> using Groovy without PR in which case it should require Script right
> exactly like Velocity does. It would not make much sense to not be
> allowed to do Velocity when you can do Groovy.
>

I see. At first I did not understand what you mean, but now I do.

Basically, you want "light"/limited groovy scripts (running with a secure
customizer) to be handled consistently, just like just velocity scripts,
which makes sense.
In other words, this:
https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/a766d8a1d7db06f51e02fbced85a60b5295f07f8

Thanks,
Eduard

>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eduard
> >
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Since the build is not in top shape due to the nested spaces changes,
> I
> >> > have currently committed my work on this in a branch, created a PR and
> >> > would like to profit from this occasion to ask the devs that are more
> >> > familiar with the rights system for some feedback on it.
> >> >
> >> > The Jira issue is http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-12171
> >> > The PR is https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/pull/410
> >>
> >> Looks good (all I could do is a minor comment on a comment :) ).
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Eduard
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