Timeline
Design Phase I:
+ Lay out the fundamental architecture, identify the main requirements and intended approach for meeting each
+ Main participants (67% time task):
++ Brian Stansberry, Darran Lofthouse, Heiko Braun, Jason Greene
+ Partial participants (25% time task):
++ David Lloyd, one other member of Domain Management team, Anil Saldhana, Harald Pehl
+ 2 weeks
+ Completion allows some aspects of dev to begin (which, TBD)
+ Inability to get the stated time commitments from all participants delays completion by that amount of time
Design Phase II:
+ Design in detail some of the fundamental areas where either coordinated design is required or a sub-team needs to flesh out details
+ Participants and time commitment -- same as Design Phase I
+ 2 weeks
Dev Phase:
++ TBD (see tasks below)
++ need to assign resources and timelines to each task.
Test Phase:
TBD
Tasks
interface to decision point
+ information about resource access request
+ information about user
+ other information about request (time of day, interface, etc)
misc op authorization
+ basic control over op execution
write-attribute/undefine-attribute authorization
add op authorization
+ trick here is cases where certain attributes can't be written
++ my instinct is to reject the add; no sophisticated rules
read-attribute authorization
read-resource authorization, output control to use response header to indicate content was filtered
configuration of our default decision point
user info configuration (what data to provide decision point, where to get it)
read-resource-access op (an op to learn about user's ability to use API; based on read-resource-description)
+ uses
++ general information
++ allow caller to disable features that will be non-functional (e.g. buttons for misc ops that are not available)
model-reference issues
+ general issue of resources in a tree being affected by other resources
+ server groups
++ user has rights to a resource that affects an SG, but not to the SG itself
+ hosts
++ similar issue
++ twist is host-specific config vs domain-wide config affecting server's on a host
+ others?
+ notion: enforce this at domain rollout time?
++ problem: what about an admin-only HC situation? -- no rollout
Console
+ the interface structure doesn't necessarily refelct the model structure
++ i.e. some coarse grained interface compoments rely on a number of resources across the model
+ distinction between interface structure (interaction units) and DMR payload
+ suppression of interaction units can only be done if the screens properly bootstrap from the model
++ relates to "read-resource-access"
++ currently not the case and a major change (intended first prototype for AS8)
+ distinction between logical entities and resource tree structure
++ i.e. /subsystem=datasources is resource tree structure
++ datasource=ExampleDS is a logical entity within the tree structure
++ makes a diference for address pattern matching...
+ do we support security constraints for logical entities? (can see datasource "Foo" but not datasource "Bar")
++ relates to "model-reference issues".
CLI issues
+ basic handling of low-level (should be ok)
+ disable high-level commands in advance?
+ ls -- high-level equivalent to read-resource
Configuration propagation
++ master HC to slave
JMX security
+ AS domains depend on core security, as they just delegate
++ provide some information about access mechanism
+ other mbeans
++ what policy?
++ what control point?
Misc issues:
sniffing for resources -- request a resource to learn it exists from the failure response
Resource Attributes
The following describes resource attributes required to enforce some permission schemes we've heard:
DMR API and Wireformat
+ separate static security meta data from dynamic runtime headers?
++ static: part of "read-resource-access"
++ dynamic: indication of enforced constraints as part of a DMR response (i.e suppressed elements)
Scheme 1:
Monitor:
-- read-only flag on the operation
Configurator:
-- Storage flag on attribute
-- flag on operation to indicate runtime-only
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Operator:
-- Storage flag on attribute
-- flag on operation to indicate runtime-only
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Administrator
-- resource address
iscadmins
-- N/A
Deployer
-- resource address
-- see IBM details at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v8r5/topic/com.ibm.websphere.base.iseries.doc/ae/rsec_adminroles.html#rsecadminroles__deployerrole to check for more
Admin Security Manager
-- I would consider the equivalent for us to be the ability to configure the access control policies
-- resource address
Auditor
-- resource address
Scheme 2:
Anonymous
-- N/A
Admin
-- none; user is root
Deployer
seems equivalent to Scheme 3's read-write
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Operator
-- read-only flag on the operation
-- resource-address
-- operation name
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Monitor
-- read-only flag on the operation
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Scheme 3:
Read-only
-- read-only flag on the operation
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Read-write
-- "security privileged" flag attribute
-- "security privileged" flag on resource
-- attribute value is a vault expression?
Privileged
-- none; user is root