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Adds role-based access control to PoliNetwork Identity. Administrators can define roles and permissions, assign custom roles to people, and delegate application management without giving every administrator full control.

This is the base of the RBAC stack. Merge #6 into this branch before merging or deploying this PR. #6 supplies the required security boundaries and production fixes described below. Validation refers to the combined stack.

Features

  • /access manages roles, permissions, inheritance and assignments. Roles inherit other roles; permissions can imply other permissions. The server rejects cycles.
  • Four built-in roles connect access to verified identity: Socio, Direttivo, Student and Master Admin. Custom roles are assigned manually. Only explicit deployment configuration can confer Master Admin, and no role can inherit it.
  • Seven idp:* permissions separate viewing and editing roles, permissions and OIDC applications, plus searching people. The UI reflects each user's access and delegation limits.
  • Identity responses and OIDC claims now include resolved roles and permissions. Existing states remain evidence of verified identity. Inheriting Socio's permissions does not prove actual Entra membership.
  • Delegated writers can grant only authority they already hold. Master Admin alone can edit built-in roles and permissions. Every RBAC mutation records its actor and before/after state in an append-only audit table.

How it works

PostgreSQL stores role/permission graphs, assignments and audit events. Server routes and repository operations enforce authorization. Mutations serialize with a database advisory lock, then check the current actor and proposed graph in the same transaction as the change and audit event. Reads use a consistent snapshot.

Entra membership uses direct group checks with a one-minute cache and a five-second lookup deadline. Graph calls finish before database transactions begin; transactional checks reread account ownership and reject expired cache entries. Missing configuration or failed verification grants no group-derived access. Explicit break-glass administrators do not depend on Graph.

Database revocations affect subsequent requests immediately. Already-issued OIDC tokens last five minutes. Group-derived token rights can therefore persist for roughly six minutes, plus upstream propagation and consumer clock tolerance.

Environment and deployment

Setting Change
PN_ENTRA_DIRETTIVO_GROUP_ID New optional group ID. Unset means no inferred Direttivo membership.
PN_ENTRA_OIDC_ADMIN_GROUP_ID Grants Master Admin only to verified direct members. Requires complete PN Entra credentials. An unset group never grants broad access.
IDP_ADMIN_USER_IDS Existing comma-separated local user IDs remain the break-glass allowlist. At least this or the administrator group must be configured before startup.
PN_ENTRA_MEMBER_REFRESH_HOURS Controls stored sign-in evidence only. Authorization uses the fixed one-minute cache.

The PN application needs Microsoft Graph GroupMember.Read.All application permission with admin consent. Partial credentials and malformed security configuration now fail before startup migrations. No new timeout/cache environment settings are required.

Migrations 0004–0007 add RBAC, convert state to states, seed built-ins, and add protected audit history. Migration 0007 records and removes unsafe historical root-inheritance and managed-role assignments.

Use a maintenance window: back up the database, stop old replicas, then start the combined release with the normal migration-first startup command. Migration 0005 removes a column used by the old server, so mixed-version rolling deployment is unsupported. Rollback needs both the database backup and previous image. This does not migrate existing backend authentication or Telegram moderation assignments.

Validation

152 tests passed with no skips, including PostgreSQL and signed-cookie HTTP tests against the compiled server. Formatting, lint, types, production and Docker builds pass. Fresh/upgrade migrations, invalid-bootstrap startup, delegated read-only UI and member pagination were verified.

Live tenant/provider registrations and mail delivery need deployment integration checks. Database owners remain trusted; external retention is needed to protect audit history from a database owner. See the deployment guide and security review.

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Walkthrough

This change replaces scalar identity states with state arrays and adds hierarchical RBAC. It introduces managed roles and permissions, guarded APIs, access-management pages, transactional mutation controls, startup security validation, and resolved roles and permissions in identity claims.

Changes

Identity Provider RBAC

Layer / File(s) Summary
Database and migration foundation
drizzle/*, src/db/*, src/env.ts, scripts/security-config.*
The schema stores state arrays, roles, permissions, hierarchy links, assignments, and append-only audit events. Migrations seed managed records, remove the old state column, quarantine unsafe links, and validate administrator configuration before migrations run.
RBAC model and persistence
src/auth/rbac.ts, src/auth/rbac-store.ts, src/auth/rbac-delegation.ts
The RBAC model expands role and permission hierarchies, supports Master Admin wildcard access, validates drafts and cycles, enforces bounded delegation, serializes mutations, records audit events, and resolves current access.
Identity and security flows
src/auth/membership.ts, src/auth/policy.ts, src/auth/oidc-admin.ts, src/auth/identity-subject.ts, src/auth/student-verification.ts, src/auth/accounts.ts
Entra checks return multiple states with timeout and bounded caching. Identity resolution verifies trusted issuers and live membership before deriving roles. Verification and account mutations use serialized transactions.
Guarded administration APIs
src/auth/api-guard.ts, src/auth/denial-log.ts, src/routes/api/idp/*, src/routes/api/rbac/*, src/routes/api/oidc/*
Shared guards enforce authentication, permissions, same-origin writes, and no-store responses. Authorization denials use structured logs without request or provider secrets.
Access-management interface
src/components/idp-access.tsx, src/components/rbac/*, src/routes/access/*, src/routes/applications/*
The application adds permission-based navigation, role and permission editors, delegated-grant controls, member search and pagination, catalog loading, access-denied states, and application write-control gating.
Configuration, documentation, routing, and validation
README.md, .env.example, Dockerfile, docker/*, src/routeTree.gen.ts, docs/rbac-security-review.md, src/auth/*.test.*
Startup configuration, deployment sequencing, RBAC behavior, security findings, route registration, and unit/integration coverage are documented. Runtime packaging includes the security validator and its dependency.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aef76

Require PN Entra credentials when a member group is configured before merging; otherwise accepted deployments cannot verify membership. Role writers can reach access administration through their implied read permission.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to aef76

The change affects shared administration authority and identity claims. The reviewed authorization paths include substantial safeguards against delegated privilege escalation, but the upgrade requires stopping old replicas and restoring both the database and application image for rollback. No new exploitable authorization bypass was established in the inspected paths; deployment and downstream integration remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · observed: The identity-evidence schema upgrade cannot safely coexist with old replicas. Migration 0005 drops the old state column, and rollback requires database restoration as well as the old image. This couples authorization availability and recovery to a coordinated maintenance window. The README explicitly documents that requirement, and startup waits for migrations before serving, but neither safeguard makes mixed-version operation compatible.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Authorization changes can affect every subject whose effective permissions depend on the modified graph. Application writers operate within a configured shared OIDC client pool rather than per-user client ownership; Master Admin has intentionally broader authority. The supplied evidence does not establish a production cutover of the separate legacy backend or its consumers.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Forged permission drafts are checked independently of the UI: the route requires an authenticated actor with write permission, the repository validates intrinsic implications and protected keys, and the transaction rejects changes exceeding delegated authority. These controls counter the inspected implication, rename, and built-in modification escalation paths; they are not proof of complete security coverage.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Administrative writes require the configured origin, an authenticated session, and current permissions. Authorization lookup failures return an unavailable response rather than granting access. OIDC client SDK privileges separately require application-write permission, and unsupported resource-policy administration explicitly denies.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The administrator group cache expires after 60 seconds, measures freshness from lookup initiation, and denies failed or superseded checks. Token lifetimes are five minutes. The documentation consequently distinguishes fresh authorization from already-issued offline claims and does not promise immediate distributed revocation.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For deployments requiring protection from compromised database-owner or operator authority, retain RBAC audit events and denial logs in a separately administered destination. This extends the documented operational trust boundary; it is not an observed vulnerability introduced by this PR.
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In @.env.example:
- Around line 42-45: Update the comments for the relevant environment settings
in src/env.ts to describe granting the built-in Master Admin role with wildcard
access, matching the RBAC contract and .env.example; replace the outdated
OIDC-client-only administration wording while leaving behavior unchanged.

In `@src/auth/rbac-store.ts`:
- Line 252: Update savePermission and saveRole so catalog reloading and both
hierarchy cycle validations occur after acquiring transaction-level
serialization or locking, using the transaction’s current state rather than
pre-transaction data. Ensure concurrent requests cannot persist opposite
hierarchy edges that form a cycle, while preserving the existing validation
behavior for non-conflicting changes.

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- Around line 243-244: Update validateRoleDraft to reject MASTER_ADMIN_ROLE_KEY
in draft.parents when the role is new or the existing role is not managed, while
preserving the parent for administrator-controlled managed roles. Add a
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serverErrors with local validation errors when deriving the draft errors, and
clear a field’s server error when that field changes. Apply the same error-state
behavior in src/components/rbac/role-form.tsx at lines 55-55, using the
corresponding permission and role draft form handlers.

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- Around line 84-85: Update the synthetic role in the role form to use one
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indicated construction and lookup points, ensuring it cannot match any stored
custom role key while preserving the existing preview behavior.

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- Around line 141-142: Update the membership controls in the role-members
component so both assign and remove buttons are disabled whenever any request is
active, using the non-empty busyUser state rather than comparing it to the
current person’s ID. Apply this condition consistently to the assign handler and
the remove controls.

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- Line 19: Update the route’s useCatalog usage to read error and reload
alongside catalog and loading. When catalog loading fails, render an error state
with a retry action invoking reload instead of rendering the permission form;
preserve the existing loading and successful catalog form flows.

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reload; preserve the loading state and only render RoleForm after successful
catalog loading.

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🟡 Minor · Choose an accessible default Access tab. · src/routes/access/index.tsx:1-7

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Choose an accessible default Access tab. src/routes/access/index.tsx always redirects /access/ to /access/roles. The header also uses /access/roles for users who have only idp:permissions:read. RequirePermission then shows an access-denied page because the Roles route requires idp:roles:read. Redirect to the first permitted tab and use an accessible destination for the Access header link.

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route and related Access header link to select the first tab permitted by the
current user, ensuring users with only idp:permissions:read are sent to the
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In `@src/routes/access/index.tsx`:
- Around line 1-7: Update the Access index route and related Access header link
to select the first tab permitted by the current user, ensuring users with only
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@toto04 short version of why #6 should go in before this merges.

The RBAC design here is good. The problem is where the checks happen: they run at the API route, and nothing limits what someone with a write permission can give themselves. #6 fixes that. The ones that actually matter, in plain terms:

1. On a default deploy, everyone with a PoliNetwork Microsoft account was a full admin.
decideOidcAdmin in src/auth/oidc-admin.ts ends with if (!input.groupConfigured) return true;. In .env.example the group is commented out and the allowlist is empty, so unless someone remembered to set one, anyone who had ever linked a PN Entra account held Master Admin — the wildcard over every permission, including ones created later. They could then sign in with Google or a passkey and still have it, because the check only looks at linked accounts.
Fix: no group and no allowlist now means nobody is admin, and the container refuses to start so it can't happen quietly.

2. "Manage roles" was the same thing as "full admin".
saveRole(draft) and assignRole(roleId, userId, assignedBy) don't take the actor — the only check is the route asking "do you have idp:roles:write?". So anyone with that permission could create a role carrying idp:applications:write (or anything else), assign it to themselves, and reload. Same story through idp:permissions:write using implications.
Fix: src/auth/rbac-delegation.ts compares the whole graph before and after every change. You can only hand out permissions you already hold, and you can't edit built-in roles or roles more privileged than yours.

3. The permission check and the write weren't in the same transaction.
loadCatalog() had a time-based cache, so the answer could be old, and nothing re-checked it once the write started. Someone being revoked right then could still push a change through.
Fix: take the lock, re-read the graph, re-check the actor, then write — all in one transaction.

4. Losing a group didn't lose access for up to 24 hours.
Group membership was stored for PN_ENTRA_MEMBER_REFRESH_HOURS (24) and only rechecked once it expired. Remove someone from Soci, Direttivo or the admin group and they kept the access for a day.
Fix: rechecked against Microsoft with a 60 second cap. A failed or slow lookup grants nothing.

5. The 5-attempt limit on the student code could be bypassed.
confirmStudentVerification reads attempts, then writes attempts + 1, with no transaction. Send 20 requests at once and they all read 0 and all write 1. Separately, a failed confirmation deleted the challenge row, and that row held the lastSentAt used for the one minute email cooldown — so failing a code on purpose reset the cooldown.
Fix: it all runs in one serialized transaction, and the row is blanked instead of deleted.

6. A write-only admin got everyone's name and email.
POST /api/rbac/role-members replied with the full member list, even for someone who had write but not read. It also cut off at 500 members with no sign that anyone was missing.
Fix: the write just replies "done", reading members is authorized separately, and the list is paginated.

Also in there: old "inherit from Master Admin" rows still worked at resolution time even though new ones were blocked; evidence from an old tenant still counted; there was no record of who changed what (now an append-only audit table); the app re-created default permission rows at runtime, so removing one didn't stick after a restart; and the UI showed buttons the server would refuse.

Two things before deploying:

  • Set either PN_ENTRA_OIDC_ADMIN_GROUP_ID or a non-empty IDP_ADMIN_USER_IDS. With neither, the app won't start — that's deliberate, it's what stops feat(oidc): application management and consent pages #1.
  • Stop the old replicas before migrating. Migration 0005 drops a column the running version still reads.

I re-reviewed the full stack and found nothing else to change in #6. Format, lint and types are clean, and the suite is 136 passing against a real PostgreSQL, including 26 integration tests that try the escalation paths above and don't get through.

https://1auounuacs3p.postplan.dev/

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In `@scripts/security-config.mjs`:
- Line 12: Update the BETTER_AUTH_URL validation to permit http: only when
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@toto04 toto04 changed the title feat: RBAC system feat: ER BACO Sep 29, 2026
@toto04 toto04 changed the title feat: ER BACO feat: ER BACO (Enhanced Role Based Access COntrol) Sep 29, 2026
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