In that case, I guess the question is... why does the default Sling
configuration allow for anonymous users to view the user list?

Time to debug!

On 9/11/10 10:25 AM, Felix Meschberger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Unless I am completely mistaken, the usermanager uses the request's
> session to get at the Jackrabbit UserManager to do any tasks, which is
> the absolutely correct thing IMHO.
> 
> We should definitely leave this kind of access control to Jackrabbit
> (resp. the configured functionality of Jackrabbit) and not impose our
> own idea ontop of it.
> 
> There is one situation where an admin session is always retrieved: The
> CreeateUser servlet. This is probably a bug and should only use an admin
> session for self-registration.
> 
> Regards
> Felix
> 
> Am 10.09.2010 00:47, schrieb Mike Moulton:
>> I recently had the need to get a list of users from an AJAX style client and 
>> found the jackrabbit usermanager exposes this functionality at 
>> system/userManager/user. As a part of this discovery, I noticed the listing 
>> of JCR users is not restricted in any way. If the usermanager bundle is 
>> installed, the following endpoint is open to the public: 
>> http://localhost:8080/system/userManager/user.tidy.1.json, providing a 
>> complete user list to anyone digging around. Any usermanager command that 
>> allows modifications to the JCR first checks if the user is an admin, but it 
>> seems all the read-only commands skip this check.
>>
>> Is this by intention, or was this simply missed?
>>
>> In addition, what are the thoughts on adding some sort of authorization 
>> component beyond just the isAdmin check? Maybe inspecting the 
>> jcr:readAccessControl / jcr:modifyAccessControl for the root node?
>>
>> -- Mike

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