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ManagementLayer RBAC
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modified by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/heiko.braun">Heiko Braun</a> in <i>JBoss AS 7 Development</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-47854">View the full document</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Role based access control to the AS7 management layer.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>Core Concepts</strong></p><p><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0 0.5em; color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: #ffffff;">When defining an RBAC model, the following conventions are useful:</p><ul><li>Subject = A person or automated agent</li><li>Role = Job function or title which defines an authority level</li><li>Permissions = An approval of a mode of access to a resource</li><li>Action = An operation to execute on a resource </li><li>Constraint: Predicate that makes the permission valid in the context of the system state </li><li><span style="color: #000000; font-family: sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: #ffffff;">Session = A mapping involving Subject, Role and/or Permissions</span></li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><a href="https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/102-47854-28-19855/PermissonModel2.png"><span> https://community.jboss.org/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/102-47854-28-19855/450-235/PermissonModel2.png </span></a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>Generic Requirements</strong></p><ul><li>Provide a usable (in terms of complexity), yet comprehensive base model</li><li>Provide a set of out-of-the-box roles & permissons that reflect common authorization requirements</li><li>Enable customizations/extension of the default scheme (i.e custom permissions, permission granularity)</li><li>Provide management operations to retrieve session information (i.e. roles assigned, permissions granted, etc)</li><li>Clearly distinguish security exceptions from other operation errors (i.e. custom response headers)</li><li>Mappability with existing authorisation schemes (i.e. JON)</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>Specific Requirements</strong></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><ul><li><em>Support permission enforcement that restricts visibility of model elements:<br/></em>Control visibility of resources (i.e. restrict visibility of server groups)</li><li><em>Suppor permission enforcement that restricts execution on model elements</em>:<br/>Control execution on resources (i.e. lock down certain operations, distinguish read & read/write access)</li><li><em>The management layer needs to enforce permission regardless of the client type and availability:<br/></em>I.e. enformenent can not be delegated to the client only<em><br/></em></li><li><em>Clients (CLI, Web) should indicate permissions prior to execution of management operations:</em><br/>I.e. grey out interface elements to emphasis lack of permissions</li></ul><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>Use cases</strong></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>See <a class="jive-link-wiki-small" href="https://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-47856">RBACUsecases</a><strong><br/></strong></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><strong>Advanced Topics</strong></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>- Context based access control: i.e. Taking the connection into consideratin</p><p>- Support for role hierarchies: i.e. structuring roles to reflect an organizations lines of authority and responsibility</p><p>- Role constraints: i.e. mutual exclusive roles</p><p>- RBAC to manage RBAC itself</p><p class="page" style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;" title="Page 9"> </p><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 0.000000pt;">structuring roles to re  ect an organiza   tion  s lines of authority and resp onsibility</span></p></div></div>
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