How do you envision things looking in the intermediate phase where we have
support for both security modes?

I imagine it's easy enough on the Shiro side of if we go with the AOP
annotations for authorization (the interceptor can just check if
security_mode == SHIRO before doing anything), but that means we'd still
have the legacy sessionValidator code in every RPC impl that would need to
be wrapped in the inverse check (security_mode == CAPABILITY_VALIDATOR).

Would it make sense to do a first pass to refactor the existing auth
checking logic to a reusable method, or are we ok living with the temporary
ugliness involved in adding that mode checking wrapper to all the existing
auth code?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Kevin Sweeney <kevi...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Zameer Manji <zma...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > +1 to this proposal.
> >
> > Will we have dual implementations of API methods as we deprecate the
> > SessionKey based API methods?
> >
> Yes for backwards-compatibility I think we'll need a flag to indicate which
> system to use. It will probably be an all-or-nothing setting (think
> -security_mode=SHIRO|CAPABILITY_VALIDATOR).
>
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Kevin Sweeney <kevi...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been thinking about revamping the authentication and authorization
> > in
> > > the scheduler recently. I've investigated Apache Shiro
> > > <http://shiro.apache.org/> and I think it would fit into the scheduler
> > > nicely as a replacement for our custom CapabilityValidator
> > > <
> > >
> >
> http://people.apache.org/~kevints/aurora/dist/0.5.0-incubating/javadoc/org/apache/aurora/auth/CapabilityValidator.html
> > > >
> > > framework (for which there currently exists no implementation).
> > >
> > > I'd like feedback on this proposal.
> > > Status Quo
> > >
> > > Security is currently implemented by a hand-rolled SessionValidator
> > > <
> > >
> >
> http://people.apache.org/~kevints/aurora/dist/0.5.0-incubating/javadoc/org/apache/aurora/auth/SessionValidator.html
> > > >
> > > framework. No public implementations exist.
> > > Proposal
> > >
> > > Change the scheduler to use the Apache Shiro framework for
> authentication
> > > and authorization. Move authentication from application to transport
> > layer
> > > and move authorization to the Shiro Permissions model.
> > > Advantages
> > >
> > > A few things that will become possible once this work is complete:
> > >
> > > 1. Ability to configure secure Aurora client-to-scheduler with a simple
> > > flat configuration file (shiro.ini
> > > <http://shiro.apache.org/configuration.html>).
> > >
> > > 2. Ability to integrate Aurora with my enterprise SSO (Kerberos+LDAP
> for
> > > example) by implementing a custom Shiro Realm
> > > <http://shiro.apache.org/realm.html>.
> > >
> > > 3. Ability to allow a CI server to continuously deploy to every role's
> > > "staging" environment without being able to touch its "prod" one by
> using
> > > Shiro's WildcardPermission
> > > <
> > >
> >
> https://shiro.apache.org/static/1.2.3/apidocs/org/apache/shiro/authz/permission/WildcardPermission.html
> > > >
> > > .
> > >
> > > 4. Ability to authenticate to the scheduler API using Kerberos (via
> > SPNEGO
> > > <http://spnego.sourceforge.net/>) or HTTP Basic auth.
> > >
> > > 5. Ability to perform authenticated write operations on a job via the
> web
> > > UI
> > > <
> http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/http-authentication
> > >.
> > > Suggested Reading
> > >
> > > Shiro has excellent documentation and is a fellow Apache Foundation
> > > project. I suggest you check out at least the 10-minute tutorial
> > > <http://shiro.apache.org/10-minute-tutorial.html> and the Guice
> > > integration
> > > documentation <http://shiro.apache.org/guice.html>.
> > > Scheduler-side changes
> > >
> > > The best way to show the proposed changes is by example. In addition to
> > > Guice wiring changes to place the Shiro authentication filter into the
> > > request chain, code that previously looked like
> > >
> > >  @Override
> > >
> > >  public Response createJob(
> > >
> > >      JobConfiguration mutableJob,
> > >
> > >      @Nullable final Lock mutableLock,
> > >
> > >      SessionKey session) {
> > >
> > >    requireNonNull(session);
> > >
> > >    try {
> > >
> > >      sessionValidator.checkAuthenticated(
> > >
> > >          session,
> > >
> > >          ImmutableSet.of(mutableJob.getKey().getRole()));
> > >
> > >    } catch (AuthFailedException e) {
> > >
> > >      return errorResponse(AUTH_FAILED, e);
> > >
> > >    }
> > >
> > >    // Request is authenticated and authorized, continue.
> > >
> > >  }
> > >
> > > becomes
> > >
> > >  @Override
> > >
> > >  public Response createJob(
> > >
> > >      JobConfiguration mutableJob,
> > >
> > >      @Nullable final Lock mutableLock) {
> > >
> > >    // subject is injected in the constructor by Guice each request.
> > >
> > >    // checkPermission will throw an unchecked
> > >
> > >    // AuthorizationException that bubbles up as a 401.
> > >
> > >    // This line could also be inserted by inspection of the method
> > >
> > >    // call in a security AOP layer.
> > >
> > >    subject.checkPermission(
> > >
> > >      // A Shiro WildcardPermission job:create:mesos:prod:labrat
> > >
> > >      new JobScopedPermission("job:create", mutableJob.getKey()));
> > >
> > >    // Request is authenticated and authorized, continue.
> > >
> > >  }
> > >
> > > Some admin methods are protected by annotations like
> > >
> > > @Requires(Capability.PROVISIONER)
> > >
> > > public Response startMaintenance(Set<String> hosts, SessionKey session)
> > { …
> > > }
> > >
> > > They'd become
> > >
> > > @RequiresPermission("maintenance:create")
> > >
> > > public Response startMaintenance(Set<String> hosts) { … }
> > > Client-side changes
> > >
> > > No changes are necessary to use HTTP Basic Auth - requests will
> > > automatically use a .netrc file today.
> > >
> > > An optional dependency on kerberos and requests-kerberos can be added
> to
> > > support SPNEGO authentication.
> > > Timeline
> > >
> > > I would like to land support for HTTP Basic Auth and SPNEGO in 0.8.0
> and
> > > deprecate the SessionKey-based API for authentication in favor of fully
> > > transport-based authentication.
> > >
> > > In 0.9.0 I propose removing SessionKey from the API entirely along with
> > > SessionValidator from the scheduler.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Zameer Manji
> >
>

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