Sure. You can send an email to peter dot sturge at googlemail dot com. If you have questions that relate generally, it can be good to share them in the forum so that others can see and benefit from the information. If it's more specific questions relating to environment/security that you'd rather not share publicly, by all means get in touch.
Thanks, Peter On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Alexander Roethinger (JIRA) < j...@apache.org> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1872?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12856809#action_12856809] > > Alexander Roethinger commented on SOLR-1872: > -------------------------------------------- > > Hello Peter, > > I have a few detailed questions regarding your component. > Is there any way to get in touch with you directly? > > Kind regards > Alexander > > > Document-level Access Control in Solr > > ------------------------------------- > > > > Key: SOLR-1872 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1872 > > Project: Solr > > Issue Type: New Feature > > Components: SearchComponents - other > > Affects Versions: 1.4 > > Environment: Solr 1.4 > > Reporter: Peter Sturge > > Priority: Minor > > Attachments: SolrACLSecurity.java, SolrACLSecurity.java, > SolrACLSecurity.rar > > > > > > This issue relates to providing document-level access control for Solr > index data. > > A related JIRA issue is: SOLR-1834. I thought it would be best if I > created a separate JIRA issue, rather than tack on to SOLR-1834, as the > approach here is somewhat different, and I didn't want to confuse things or > step on Anders' good work. > > There have been lots of discussions about document-level access in Solr > using LCF, custom comoponents and the like. Access Control is one of those > subjects that quickly spreads to lots of 'ratholes' to dive into. Even if > not everyone agrees with the approaches taken here, it does, at the very > least, highlight some of the salient issues surrounding access control in > Solr, and will hopefully initiate a healthy discussion on the range of > related requirements, with the aim of finding the optimum balance of > requirements. > > The approach taken here is document and schema agnostic - i.e. the access > control is independant of what is or will be in the index, and no schema > changes are required. This version doesn't include LDAP/AD integration, but > could be added relatively easily (see Ander's very good work on this in > SOLR-1834). Note that, at the moment, this version doesn't deal with > /update, /replication etc., it's currently a /select thing at the moment > (but it could be used for these). > > This approach uses a SearchComponent subclass called SolrACLSecurity. Its > configuration is read in from solrconfig.xml in the usual way, and the > allow/deny configuration is split out into a config file called acl.xml. > > acl.xml defines a number of users and groups (and 1 global for > 'everyone'), and assigns 0 or more {{<acl-allow>}} and/or {{<acl-deny>}} > elements. > > When the SearchComponent is initialized, user objects are created and > cached, including an 'allow' list and a 'deny' list. > > When a request comes in, these lists are used to build filter queries > ('allows' are OR'ed and 'denies' are NAND'ed), and then added to the query > request. > > Because the allow and deny elements are simply subsearch queries (e.g. > {{<acl-allow>somefield:secret</acl-allow>}}, this mechanism will work on any > stored data that can be queried, including already existing data. > > Authentication > > One of the sticky problems with access control is how to determine who's > asking for data. There are many approaches, and to stay in the generic vein > the current mechanism uses http parameters for this. > > For an initial search, a client includes a {{username=somename}} > parameter and a {{hash=pwdhash}} hash of its password. If the request sends > the correct parameters, the search is granted and a uuid parameter is > returned in the response header. This uuid can then be used in subsequent > requests from the client. If the request is wrong, the SearchComponent fails > and will increment the user's failed login count (if a valid user was > specified). If this count exceeds the configured lockoutThreshold, no > further requests are granted until the lockoutTime has elapsed. > > This mechanism protects against some types of attacks (e.g. CLRF, > dictionary etc.), but it really needs container HTTPS as well (as would most > other auth implementations). Incorporating SSL certificates for > authentication and making the authentication mechanism pluggable would be a > nice improvement (i.e. separate authentication from access control). > > Another issue is how internal searchers perform autowarming etc. The > solution here is to use a local key called 'SolrACLSecurityKey'. This key is > local and [should be] unique to that server. firstSearcher, newSearcher et > al then include this key in their parameters so they can perform autowarming > without constraint. Again, there are likely many ways to achieve this, this > approach is but one. > > The attached rar holds the source and associated configuration. This has > been tested on the 1.4 release codebase (search in the attached > solrconfig.xml for SolrACLSecurity to find the relevant sections in this > file). > > I hope this proves helpful for people who are looking for this sort of > functionality in Solr, and more generally to address how such a mechanism > could ultimately be integrated into a future Solr release. > > Many thanks, > > Peter > > -- > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > - > If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa > - > For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira > > >
