[openstack-dev] [keystone] Does the policy.json for trusts works?

Boris Bobrov breton at cynicmansion.ru
Sat Sep 16 01:09:13 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 13.09.2017 18:54, Adrian Turjak wrote:
> Hello Keystone devs!
> 
> I've been playing with some policy changes and realised that the trust
> policy rules were mostly blank. Which, based on how the policy logic
> works means that any authed user can list trusts:
> https://github.com/openstack/keystone/blob/master/etc/policy.v3cloudsample.json#L137-L142
> 
> But... in practive that doesn't appear to be the case, only admin can
> list/create/etc trusts. Which is good since it doesn't really make sense
> for any authed user to see all trusts (or does it?). What it does raise
> is, does the policy actually work for trusts, or is an admin requirement
> policy hardcoded somewhere for them?
> 
> Now I've played with the keystone policy, setting an admin only policy
> blank, lets say project list, does let any authed user to use that API.
> So from that we know that a blank policy has that logic. The 'default'
> rule only comes into play when a rule isn't present. Such as me setting
> a policy as "rule:rule_that_doesnt_exist" which would invoke the default
> rule, so we know that is happening here either.
> 
> So... back to how I got here. The policy for trusts doesn't appear to
> work as written. They are blank (and they probably shouldn't be), and
> based on that policy, they should be visible to all authed users. Even
> if I do put an explicit rule in them, they don't seem to take effect.
> Can someone else confirm I'm not going mad? Or that potentially I'm
> missing the point entirely (which for my sanity is also welcome :P).

Trusts are not controlled by policy.json. Checks for them are
performed in code. So you're not mad ;)

> I even checked if it was maybe extension specific, but the consumer
> policy for the oauth extension does appear to work. If I blank it, any
> authed user can list consumers.
> 
> If I'm not mad, we should probably work out why this doesn't work, but
> before we fix it, we should also add a better default rule since we
> probably don't want all authed users seeing ALL trusts.

I agree. Could you please create a bugreport?

> Cheers,
> Adrian
> 
> 
> 
> 
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