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Larry McCay updated KNOX-399:
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Fix Version/s: (was: 0.7.0)
Future
> Allow Anonymous Access to Select API Patterns
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> Key: KNOX-399
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-399
> Project: Apache Knox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Server
> Reporter: Larry McCay
> Assignee: Larry McCay
> Fix For: Future
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> Certain resource URLs will require/allow anonymous access.
> For instance, admin/api/v1/version shouldn't require authentication - since
> it may be used to determine which contract to use or some other non-request
> processing book keeping.
> What I have in mind is a scheme wherein a given API service contributor will
> communicate the patternsForAnonymousAccess in addition to packages and
> patterns that it does today. The base class jersey contributor can noop the
> method for backward compatibility.
> As the base class jersey contributor loops through the patterns to add
> filters for, it will check whether each pattern is a member of the anonymous
> access group and if so add an anonymous authentication filter instead of the
> one configured in the topology. The anonymous authentication provider will
> simply create a Subject with principal of anonymous and no groups. It will
> then be up to identity assertion role mapping to add any groups to the
> Subject. Something like "everyone" group would make sense and could then be
> used in SLA acls for access decisions.
> The rest of the API will likely be protected with acls for role of "admin".
> The administrator role would need to be added to LDAP groups or also added
> through the identity assertion provider based on specific principal names.
> I think that this will allow for an API with up to two authentication levels:
> 1. the configured authentication/federation provider for the topology that is
> hosting the API
> 2. anonymous access to a subset of the API
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