[Pulp-dev] Moving Content Guard Authorization to Webserver and out of pulp-content

[Justin Sherrill]

Thanks and it does appears that we use certs that could be too large for 
default header sizes (by several multiples).

Could you elaborate a bit about the design a bit more?  I'm curious what 
the requirements of web service layer (will it need to talk to the pulp3 
api? the db?)  Will it just add some header after reading the cert (and 
validating the path) and then pass it on to the reverse proxy with apache?

Thanks!

Justin

On 3/11/20 2:58 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 2:34 PM Justin Sherrill <jsherril at redhat.com 
> <mailto:jsherril at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     We had discussed base64 encoding the cert in the webserver on the
>     way in and then letting cert guard decode it.  While that's not
>     ideal I think it has some advantages over moving the full auth
>     into the webserver.  What was your motivation for going with that
>     approach over the base64 encoding approach?
>
> Thank you for this question! I ended up with a few different concerns 
> about the base64 encode-and-forward idea. Architecturally the concern 
> with it is that it's frowned upon to forward the client's TLS cert 
> beyond the TLS termination point because that is what MITM software 
> does. Also, there are some practical concerns: one, I don't think 
> nginx can provide a similar runtime base64 encoding feature. Also I 
> was concerned with header length truncation and what happens when the 
> certificates get longer.
>
> Overall having auth that is based on TLS certificates brought me to 
> the conclusion that we need to auth where the TLS is terminated. What 
> do you think?
>
> More thoughts and questions are welcome. This is a good discussion.
>
>     On 3/11/20 2:11 PM, Brian Bouterse wrote:
>>     tl;dr: What we have today cannot work with rhsm certificates
>>     which Katello uses. To resolve, we need to have content guard
>>     checking moved to the webserver configs for apache and nginx and
>>     not done in pulp-content as it is today.
>>     https://pulp.plan.io/issues/6323
>>
>>     We need to bring the auth to where TLS is terminated because we
>>     can't being the client certs to pulp-content due to invalid
>>     header characters. As is, pulp-certguard cannot work with
>>     Katello's cert types (rhsm certs) so that is driving my changes.
>>
>>     If anyone has major concerns or other ideas please let me know.
>>     In the meantime I'm proceeding moving the authorization to the
>>     webserver and then updating pulp-certguard to work with that.
>>     This will make pulp-certguard's GA tied to pulpcore 3.3.0.
>>     Feedback is welcome.
>>
>>     [0]: https://pulp.plan.io/issues/6323
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Brian
>>
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