feat: ER BACO (Enhanced Role Based Access COntrol) - #4
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. WalkthroughThis 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. ChangesIdentity Provider RBAC
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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access, matching the RBAC contract and .env.example; replace the outdated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.
In `@src/auth/rbac.ts`:
- 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
regression test covering rejection for custom/new roles and acceptance for
managed roles.
In `@src/components/rbac/permission-form.tsx`:
- Line 53: In src/components/rbac/permission-form.tsx at lines 53-53, merge
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.
In `@src/components/rbac/role-form.tsx`:
- Around line 84-85: Update the synthetic role in the role form to use one
collision-free internal key for its id, key, and related reference at the
indicated construction and lookup points, ensuring it cannot match any stored
custom role key while preserving the existing preview behavior.
In `@src/components/rbac/role-members.tsx`:
- 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.
In `@src/routes/access/permissions/new.tsx`:
- 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.
In `@src/routes/access/roles/new.tsx`:
- Around line 63-66: Update the component’s useCatalog handling to read error
and reload, and add an error branch before the RoleForm rendering path. When
catalog loading fails, display the error and provide a retry action using
reload; preserve the loading state and only render RoleForm after successful
catalog loading.
In `@src/routes/access/route.tsx`:
- Line 77: Update the Access section entitlement in the route to render when any
configured tab satisfies access.can(tab.permission), rather than requiring
idp:permissions:read; update the app header entitlement to show Access when the
user can read either roles or permissions, preserving the existing loading and
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🟡 Minor · Choose an accessible default Access tab. · src/routes/access/index.tsx:1-7
1-7: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winChoose an accessible default Access tab.
src/routes/access/index.tsxalways redirects/access/to/access/roles. The header also uses/access/rolesfor users who have onlyidp:permissions:read.RequirePermissionthen shows an access-denied page because the Roles route requiresidp:roles:read. Redirect to the first permitted tab and use an accessible destination for the Access header link.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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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
idp:permissions:read are sent to the permissions destination rather than the
roles route. Reuse the existing permission checks and tab destinations, and
preserve the roles destination for users who have idp:roles:read.
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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. 2. "Manage roles" was the same thing as "full admin". 3. The permission check and the write weren't in the same transaction. 4. Losing a group didn't lose access for up to 24 hours. 5. The 5-attempt limit on the student code could be bypassed. 6. A write-only admin got everyone's name and email. 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:
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. |
Co-authored-by: Gabriele Viganò <infogabrielevigano@gmail.com>
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In `@scripts/security-config.mjs`:
- Line 12: Update the BETTER_AUTH_URL validation to permit http: only when
url.hostname is localhost, 127.0.0.1, or [::1]; continue permitting https: and
rejecting URLs with credentials, while disallowing all other HTTP hosts.
In `@src/auth/rbac-security.integration.test.mjs`:
- Around line 510-544: Wrap the test operations after stripping the managed
permission implications in a try/finally block, including role creation,
assignment, assertions, spawned-process checks, and unassignment. Move the
restoring savePermission call for managed.key into finally so the
idp:applications:read implication is restored even when an assertion or process
invocation fails.
In `@src/components/rbac/role-members.tsx`:
- Around line 115-116: Update the role-member search flow around the candidates
filter and assignRole action so all existing holders are excluded, not only
those in the currently loaded members page. Pass roleId to the search endpoint
and apply the exclusion server-side, or include membership status in each result
and filter using it before rendering the “Give role” action.
In `@src/routes/applications/route.tsx`:
- Around line 67-72: Support write-only application administrators across the
applications flow: in src/routes/applications/route.tsx lines 67-72, allow
routing when access has either read or write permission; in
src/components/app-header.tsx lines 20-24, show Applications for either
permission and route write-only users to /applications/new; in
src/routes/applications/index.tsx lines 76-77, derive read access, skip
fetchOidcClients when read access is absent, and render only the creation action
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In `@scripts/security-config.mjs`:
- Around line 57-59: Update the credentials validation condition in the security
configuration to include config.PN_ENTRA_MEMBER_GROUP_ID alongside the existing
Entra group ID checks, ensuring configured member groups require credentials.
In `@src/components/rbac/fields.tsx`:
- Line 20: Update the Field component and its six Input/Textarea usages in the
permission and role forms so each control references the active `${id}-error` or
`${id}-hint` via aria-describedby. Expose the computed description ID to
children or inject the attribute while preserving the existing hint and error
rendering.
In `@src/routes/access/route.tsx`:
- Line 76: Update the access section-entry condition around access.status and
visibleTabs to also permit users with write-only authorization to mount child
routes. Add write-only landing destinations for /access and ensure the header
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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
/accessmanages roles, permissions, inheritance and assignments. Roles inherit other roles; permissions can imply other permissions. The server rejects cycles.idp:*permissions separate viewing and editing roles, permissions and OIDC applications, plus searching people. The UI reflects each user's access and delegation limits.rolesandpermissions. Existingstatesremain evidence of verified identity. Inheriting Socio's permissions does not prove actual Entra membership.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
PN_ENTRA_DIRETTIVO_GROUP_IDPN_ENTRA_OIDC_ADMIN_GROUP_IDIDP_ADMIN_USER_IDSPN_ENTRA_MEMBER_REFRESH_HOURSThe PN application needs Microsoft Graph
GroupMember.Read.Allapplication permission with admin consent. Partial credentials and malformed security configuration now fail before startup migrations. No new timeout/cache environment settings are required.Migrations
0004–0007add RBAC, convertstatetostates, seed built-ins, and add protected audit history. Migration0007records 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
0005removes 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.