Benoit Tellier created JAMES-3756:
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Summary: Configurable impresonnation
Key: JAMES-3756
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JAMES-3756
Project: James Server
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: IMAPServer, SMTPServer, UsersStore & UsersRepository
Reporter: Benoit Tellier
h3. What is impersonnation
Hello I'm Bob, connect me as Alice.
Use cases:
- 1. Migration: migration user impersonnate existing user to migrate in/out
emails of the user
- 2. Assistance: An admin impersonate a user to assist them with one problem...
- 3. Delegation: The secretary impersonnate her boss mails.
h3. What exists today in James
Impersonation exists for IMAP AUTHENTICATE PLAIN.
Impersonation relies on the 'Authorizator' interface.
A simple implementation of it is provided: We then verify this the user
performing the impersonation is an admin account defined in the configuration.
This makes it suitable for simple use cases defined in 1 and 2 (where
multi-tenancy is not an issue)
However, this is unsuitable for more advanced use cases.
h3. Proposal
Provide a configuration option to enable fine-grained authorization.
If enabled, a storage API for delegation will be enabled (stores user X have
the right to impersonate to user Y). We can then have a webadmin API to manage
this, as well as the wiring needed in the AUthorizator.
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