Re: Dev - Security API Extension Proposal

Posted by BJ Freeman on
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Dev-Security-API-Extension-Proposal-tp168015p168016.html

 From a hackers point of view this would open up security hole.


Vinay Agarwal sent the following on 5/18/06 12:21 PM:

> Hello:
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> I propose extension to the security API to allow for data-driven per-session
> or per-call authentication. This would meet my security needs ([OFBiz] Users
> - Security API: What am I missing?) and possibly of others.
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> This scheme would add additional fields to userLogin entity which specify
> its permissions (a List) for the entities owned by a specific party
> (specified through partyId).
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> Additions to userLogin: For temporary use only, not to be stored in db
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> Authentications (Map) stores partyId (key) and List of permission Strings.
> As example,
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> party1  perm11 perm12
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> party2  perm2
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> This would act as the userLogin as (perm11 + perm12) on party1's data and
> perm2 on party2's data.
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> Additional function to Security interface:
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> public abstract GenericValue authenticateAsParty(GenericValue userLoginTba,
> String partyId);
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> Return result is a modified userLogin with additional security information
> if any. In the default implementation, simply returns the supplied
> userLogin. Alternately, it can be overwritten to provide additional security
> data in the return userLogin. This userLogin should not be stored in session
> so that the permissions can be controlled to per call level.
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> Security check would check for these permissions after the existing
> permission check.
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> Would this be of any use?
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> Regards,
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> Vinay Agarwal
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