Hi Dominique, At the moment, in order to enforce the LCF security model within Lucene/Solr, you will need to build this functionality into whatever client you are using to display the Lucene search results. Specifically, you would need to take the following steps:
(1) Have your users access your search client through Apache. (2) Use the Apache module mod_auth_kerb, combined with LCF's mod_authz_annotate, to cause authorization HTTP headers to be transmitted to the client webapp. (3) Have your client webapp alter whatever queries it is doing, to add an appropriate query clause for each of the access tokens transmitted in the headers. (This is how it is done at MetaCarta.) Alternatively, you may find a way to do this completely with a web application under a Java app server such as Tomcat. I have not yet done the research to find out whether this is a feasible alternative. Effectively, what you need something like mod_auth_kerb to do is to authenticate your user against Active Directory, or whomever the authenticator ought to be. JAAS may be helpful here. There are, of course, intentions to fill out the missing pieces more completely and transparently via a Solr search plugin and/or filter. What has been lacking is time. If you are in a position to do development in this area, we're happy to have any assistance you might provide. Thanks, Karl ________________________________ From: ext Dominique Bejean [mailto:dominique.bej...@eolya.fr] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 5:06 AM To: connectors-u...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Solr and LCF security at query time Hi, I don't see in LCF wiki how Solr and LCF works together at query time in order to remove from the result list the items the user is not allowed to access. In http://cwiki.apache.org/CONNECTORS/lucene-connectors-framework-concepts.html, I just see these sentences : " Once all these documents and their access tokens are handed to the search engine, it is the search engine's job to enforce security by excluding inappropriate documents from the search results. For Lucene, this infrastructure is expected to be built on top of Lucene's generic metadata abilities, but has not been implemented at this time." I am not sure to understand. Does this mean that for the moment, it is not possible for Solr to apply security by using an Authority Connector ? Dominique
