Improve out-of-the-box server security in cloud ----------------------------------------------- Key: ISPN-7811 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-7811 Project: Infinispan Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Security, Server Affects Versions: 9.0.0.Final Reporter: Galder Zamarreño Assignee: Galder Zamarreño Priority: Major Fix For: 9.4.2.Final When running Infinispan 9.0.0.Final in a cloud env, the default security code enforcements are causing issues when trying to register a proto file. The "___protobuf_metadata" cache cannot be written remotely any more. Accessing this cache to add protofile descriptors to server. The default configuration throws this error: {code} [datagrid-1-akxoi] [datagrid-1-akxoi] 12:15:56,602 ERROR [org.infinispan.server.hotrod.CacheDecodeContext] (HotRod-ServerWorker-4-2) ISPN005003: Exception reported: org.infinispan.server.hotrod.RequestParsingException: Remote requests are allowed to protected caches only over loopback or if authorization is enabled. Do no send remote requests to cache '___protobuf_metadata' [datagrid-1-akxoi] at org.infinispan.server.hotrod.CacheDecodeContext.obtainCache(CacheDecodeContext.java:116) [datagrid-1-akxoi] at org.infinispan.server.hotrod.HotRodDecoder.decodeHeader(HotRodDecoder.java:162) [datagrid-1-akxoi] at org.infinispan.server.hotrod.HotRodDecoder.decode(HotRodDecoder.java:93) {code} The code in CacheDecodeContext that enables this check does the following: {code} if (!cacheManager.getCacheManagerConfiguration().security().authorization().enabled()... {code} In order to have better out-of-the-box experience in cloud but still be secured, the following should be done: * Remove the code check for authorization in CacheDecodeContext. * Server's default configuration should require authentication. * Docker image allows passing in APP_USER and APP_PASS as env variables easily, but it provides default usernames and passwords for both APP and MGMT. These defaults should be removed since they're a security risk. * Docker image should have the possibility to set APP_GROUPS so that we can pass in optionally the role groups associated with a user. This is handy for making it easier in the future for users to add authorization on top of authentication. I will create JIRA subtasks for these so that the work can be divided.