Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-26 Thread Jesse McConnell
I have been working on a little security api in the plexus sandbox that I wanted to describe to the continuum dev list that would work for the implementation of the authentication and authorization parts of continuum. I like it since it is pretty easy to use and should extend to support the

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-26 Thread Carlos Sanchez
I think is more important now come with a good representation of users, groups, roles,... that can be used across all apps (Continuum, MRM,...) Acegi doesn't mess with your code, so the need of another api on top of it for me has no much sense. I like the aop approach better than implementing

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-26 Thread Jesse McConnell
carlos, how would you recommend we implement the users/groups/roles/permissions material that we have already been discussing? would it be implementing the rbac model using the AccessDecisionManager and AccessDecisionVoter dealio in acegi? I can see how we might go about doing it in acegi, it

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-19 Thread Jesse McConnell
There was some discussion on irc about the security model so I wrote up this description for review by everyone. http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUM/Straight+Role+Based+Access+Control It doesn't have implementation details in it, it is just an attempt at drawing together the different

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-18 Thread Brett Porter
I've added my comments. I don't think we need domain ACLs - it's an interesting concept but it also worries me a little to have security as an afterthought - it's intrinsic to the design of the code in some ways (surely if you only want to give one person access to a subset of the data you

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-11 Thread Carlos Sanchez
I've updated the wiki with my latest thoughts. I suggest this reading http://acegisecurity.org/docbook/acegi.html#domain-acls which explains how to add instance based security with ACLs. It's a good option and allows fine grained permissions for user, project and type of operation. On 7/11/06,

Re: Continuum Security design

2006-07-11 Thread Joakim Erdfelt
Carlos Sanchez wrote: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUM/Security Please take a look and provide feedback on the semantics of what to secure and to what level. Some discussion with Jesse McConnell about the security ... [11:01:38] jerdfelt jmcconnell: do you see the comment in it's

Continuum Security design

2006-07-10 Thread Carlos Sanchez
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/CONTINUUM/Security Please take a look and provide feedback on the semantics of what to secure and to what level. -- I could give you my word as a Spaniard. No good. I've known too many Spaniards. -- The Princess Bride