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Rajani Karuturi commented on CLOUDSTACK-8462:
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Ldap currently doesnt support authrorization. Its only authentication.
Are you planning to add authorization with this? How are you planning to map
the external roles to cloudstack user/account types?
> SAML: Auth plugin should handle authorization and disallow users who are not
> allowed
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>
> Key: CLOUDSTACK-8462
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-8462
> Project: CloudStack
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Security Level: Public(Anyone can view this level - this is the
> default.)
> Components: SAML
> Reporter: Rohit Yadav
> Assignee: Rohit Yadav
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: Future, 4.6.0, 4.5.2
>
>
> At the time of writing the auth plugin, I did not consider many security
> issues. The current SAML2 auth plugin would automatically create users and
> allow them inside CloudStack which in production could cause a severe
> security issue, especially in environment with public IdP server infra such
> as large institutions. Therefore, the idea is to let admin add/import users
> manually or from LDAP and then allow them to be SAML authenticated. This
> delegates the security issue and account creation/handling to the admin or
> some other business layer/system.
> The following scenario would be supported:
> - Admin adds a user either manually or importing from LDAP etc.
> - Admin can then specify (multi-select or through API) a list of one or more
> users with their username (or any unique ID) to be allowed to be SAML
> authenticated
> Assumption here is that every SAML authenticated user would have a unique
> username mapped into CloudStack. Edge case handling: In case multiple users
> exist in CloudStack with the same username (could be across domains) and if
> the admin enables SAML authentication for all those user account, then the
> plugin would assume all the users as the same and allowed by the SAML
> authenticated user. Then, upon log in, the user should be able to
> select/switch between all such accounts under any of the domains.
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