janhoy commented on a change in pull request #427:
URL: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/427#discussion_r753723020



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File path: 
solr/core/src/test/org/apache/solr/security/BaseTestRuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin.java
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@@ -213,14 +212,14 @@ public void testBasicPermissions() {
         "userPrincipal", "tim",
         "handler", new ReplicationHandler(),
         "collectionRequests", singletonList(new CollectionRequest("mycoll")) )
-        , FORBIDDEN);
+        , STATUS_OK); // Replication requires "READ" permission, which Tim has
 
     checkRules(Map.of("resource", ReplicationHandler.PATH,
         "httpMethod", "POST",
         "userPrincipal", "cio",
         "handler", new ReplicationHandler(),
         "collectionRequests", singletonList(new CollectionRequest("mycoll")) )
-        , STATUS_OK);
+        , FORBIDDEN); // User cio has role 'su' which does not have 'read' 
permission

Review comment:
       The user "cio" has only one role `su` with the `all` permission.
   
   Before this PR, he was allowed access since `all` was the governing 
permission for the request. After the PR, the governing permission becomes 
`read` which is defined earlier in the permission list, and since cio lacks 
that permission, it does not matter that he has the `all` permission, since 
evaluation stops at the first governing permission.
   
   This is a bit confusing, but it is by design and documented. However, this 
change may cause people's existing `security.json` configs to behave 
differently. Typically relying on some `all` permission at the end of the chain 
connected to some role is no longer catching all these Request Handlers that 
are now covered by a specific permission, so people may need to adjust role and 
permission mappings to adjust.
   
   Perhaps we should spell that out in the change-note.




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