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[jira] [Commented] (SOLR-12131) Authorization plugin support for
getting user's roles from the outside
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Jan Høydahl commented on SOLR-12131:
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See pull request 341 for patch. Targeting 7.4. Comments welcome
> Authorization plugin support for getting user's roles from the outside
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> Key: SOLR-12131
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12131
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Security Level: Public(Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
> Components: security
> Reporter: Jan Høydahl
> Priority: Major
> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> Currently the {{RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin}} relies on explicitly mapping users to roles. However, when users are authenticated by an external Identity service (e.g. JWT as implemented in SOLR-12121), that external service keeps track of the user's roles, and will pass that as a "claim" in the token (JWT).
> In order for Solr to be able to Authorise requests based on those roles, the Authorization plugin should be able to accept (verified) roles from the request instead of explicit mapping.
> Suggested approach is to create a new interface {{VerifiedUserRoles}} and a {{PrincipalWithUserRoles}} which implements the interface. The Authorization plugin can then pull the roles from request. By piggy-backing on the Principal, we have a seamless way to transfer extra external information, and there is also a natural relationship:
> {code:java}
> User Authentication -> Role validation -> Creating a Principal{code}
> I plan to add the interface, the custom Principal class and restructure {{RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin}} in an abstract base class and two implementations: {{RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin}} (as today) and a new {{ExternalRoleRuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin.}}
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