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feat: fine grained access control policy

Open grs opened this issue 5 months ago • 5 comments

This allows a set of rules to be defined for determining access to resources. The rules are (loosely) based on the cedar policy format.

A rule defines a list of action either to permit or to forbid. It may specify a principal or a resource that must match for the rule to take effect. It may also specify a condition, either a 'when' or an 'unless', with additional constraints as to where the rule applies.

A list of rules is held for each type to be protected and tried in order to find a match. If a match is found, the request is permitted or forbidden depening on the type of rule. If no match is found, the request is denied. If no rules are specified for a given type, a rule that allows any action as long as the resource attributes match the user attributes is added (i.e. the previous behaviour is the default.

Some examples in yaml:

    model:
    - permit:
      principal: user-1
      actions: [create, read, delete]
      comment: user-1 has full access to all models
    - permit:
      principal: user-2
      actions: [read]
      resource: model-1
      comment: user-2 has read access to model-1 only
    - permit:
      actions: [read]
      when:
        user_in: resource.namespaces
      comment: any user has read access to models with matching attributes
    vector_db:
    - forbid:
      actions: [create, read, delete]
      unless:
        user_in: role::admin
      comment: only user with admin role can use vector_db resources

grs avatar May 25 '25 23:05 grs