[nova] [ops] user_id based policy enforcement

Massimo Sgaravatto massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 17:39:58 UTC 2020


Thanks again !

Out of curiosity, why the operation to access the console of an instance
wasn't considered a "destructive action" ?
This allows to send a ctrl-alt-del ...

Cheers, Massimo

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:18 PM Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com>
wrote:

>  ---- On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 11:17:41 -0500 Massimo Sgaravatto <
> massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com> wrote ----
>  > Thank you !
>  > The "destructive actions" I guess are the ones listed here:
>  >
> https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/nova-specs/specs/newton/implemented/user-id-based-policy-enforcement.html
>  >
>  > In this page there is also the link to the ML thread you were talking
> about
>  > So the user_id based policy enforcement for those destructive actions
> is supposed to work till Train ? Did I get it right ?
>
> Yes, that is the exact list we kept the user_id restriction support for
> backword compatilbity. They will keep running till Ussuri for sure.
> Please ntoe, we might cleanup those in Victoria cycle in favor of new
> defaults.
>
> -gmann
>
>  > Thanks, Massimo
>  >
>  > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:53 PM Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com>
> wrote:
>  >  ---- On Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:18:41 -0500 Massimo Sgaravatto <
> massimo.sgaravatto at gmail.com> wrote ----
>  >  > Hi
>  >  > In my Rocky installation I am preventing users from deleting
> instances created by other users of the same project.This was implemented
> setting in the nova policy file:
>  >  >
>  >  > "os_compute_api:servers:delete": "rule:admin_api or
> user_id:%(user_id)s"
>  >  >
>  >  > This works, even if in the nova log file I see:
>  >  > The user_id attribute isn't supported in the rule
> 'os_compute_api:servers:delete'. All the user_id based policy enforcement
> will be removed in the future.
>  >  >
>  >  > Now I would also like preventing user to see the console log file of
> instances created by other users. I set in the nova policy file:
>  >  > "os_compute_api:os-console-output" : "rule:admin_api or
> user_id:%(user_id)s"
>  >
>  > Nova does not restrict the policy by user_id except keypairs API or a
> few of the destructive actions( which I think we supported for backwards
> compatiblity and
>  > intent to remove it later that is why you can see the warning).  I
> remember we discussed this in 2016 but I could not find the ML thread for
> that but
>  > the consensus that time was we do not intend to support user_id based
> restriction permission in the API.
>  >
>  > On the same note,  ussuri onwards you can enforce some user-level
> restriction based on the role, but not by user_id. In the Ussuri cycle, we
> have implemented
>  > the keystone new defaults roles in nova policy. You can assign read and
> write roles for users and achieve the user's isolation within same project.
>  > Please refer this doc to know more details on those new policies
>  > -
> https://docs.openstack.org/nova/latest/configuration/policy-concepts.html
>  >
>  > -gmann
>  >
>  >  >
>  >  > but this doesn't work
>  >  > Any hints ?
>  >  > More in general: were the user_id based policy eventually removed in
> latest OpenStack releases ?Which are then the  possible alternatives to
> implement my use case ?
>  >  > Thanks, Massimo
>  >
>
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