Issue #1875 has been updated by jamtur01.

Status changed from Ready for Checkin to Closed

Pushed in branch master.
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Feature #1875: A REST Authorization file is needed
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/1875

Author: luke
Status: Closed
Priority: High
Assigned to: masterzen
Category: network
Target version: 0.25.0
Complexity: Unknown
Affected version: 0.24.7
Keywords: 


In the switch from XMLRPC to REST, we've exposed the lack of decent 
authorization in the network interfaces.

Note that authorization is distinct from authentication, which is handled via 
certificates.

Once a host is authenticated, we need some way of knowing what services or 
aspects of services the host has access to.  Current 0.24.x systems provide 
multiple configuration files that cover some of this, notably fileserver.conf.  
For arbitrary authorization, there is namespaceauth.conf.

We need something more generic that relies on our switch to REST, likely 
providing authorization against URIs, possibly with some kind of mapping to 
services.

E.g., we might have something like:
<pre>
  path /
  deny *

  path /file
  allow authenticated

  path /certificate
  allow unauthenticated

  path /file/$host
  deny *
  allow $host # or something like that
</pre>

Clearly I haven't exactly thought this all the way through.

The main thing we need is something mirrors our existing default authentication 
- defer to fileserver.conf for files, allow unauthenticated users to upload 
certificate requests and download certificates, and allow authenticated users 
to download catalogs.

It'd be nice to be able to fold fileserver.conf into this file eventually, I 
think, but I wouldn't prioritize that.

Note that there are three fields to any authentication attempt: path/uri, 
authentication status, http verb.  Any configuration file would need to be able 
to specify each of these in a given authorization specification.

It'd be best of all if we could find someone else's solution to this problem 
and crib from them.


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