[Freeipa-devel] Virtual operation ACIs (Was Re: 0578-0579 Convert Host default permissions to managed)

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 12:52 +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> I'll address the other issues separately.
> 
> On 06/18/2014 05:46 PM, Martin Kosek wrote:
> > 3) I hit one issue when I open the Web UI host tab, I get "Insufficient access:
> > No such virtual command" error triggered by "cert-show" command.
> >
> > We will need to add the permission "System: Read Virtual Operations" that Honza
> > is creating also to "Host Administrators" to fix that part.
> 
> I'm not familiar with Honza's effort, but that seems right.
> I'm curious, why don't we just allow reading virtual operations by 
> anybody? It seems to me they're the same in every IPA installation, 
> what's there to hide?
> 
> Anyway, I poked around in how it works now: for cert-show you need write 
> access to the objectClass of the "retrieve certificate" virt op entry. 
> So that right you can actually remove the "ipaVirtualOperation" objectClass.
> Aand the new "Anonymous read access to containers" ACI has a 
> (!(objectclass=ipaVirtualOperation)) filter, so any user privileged for 
> a virt op can allow everyone see that virt op).
> Shouldn't we base the check on some other attribute instead?
> 
> And curiously, for cert-find there is no virt op based access check.

I wonder if we can replace some of these with the ipaProtectedOperation
machinery, it works better for protecting itself from manipulation.

Simo.