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Tom Clegg, 06/20/2017 08:53 PM

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h1. Federated identity
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See
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* #11453
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* #11874
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A person should be able to create an account and get a token from a single identity provider, and use that token to access private/protected resources on multiple Arvados clusters.
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Motivating use cases:
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* A user on cluster B shares a project with a user on cluster A.
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* A container running on cluster A reads and writes data on cluster B.
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* A user logged in to Workbench A can search/view/download/upload collections at cluster B.
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Configuration examples:
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* An organization has 5 clusters, but only one of them has user accounts and roles in its database.
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* An on-premise cluster runs containers that use public data stored in the cloud (without mirroring the data locally).
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h2. Relevant principles
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Cluster "bbbbb" is authoritative for objects whose UUIDs start with "bbbbb-". This applies to both the object's state and the set of user/group UUIDs that are allowed to read/write the object.
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* This implies that permission links whose head_uuid starts with "bbbbb-" exist only on cluster bbbbb. (If they exist elsewhere, they should be ignored.)
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h2. Design sketch
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Each Arvados client must be able to prove to cluster B that it is authorized by cluster A to act on behalf of a user account which is controlled by cluster A. This must not involve giving enough information to cluster B to act on behalf of the user account: for example, the client cannot simply give cluster B its cluster A token for the purpose of doing a canary query: doing so would allow cluster B to exercise the client's authority on cluster C, D, and E as well.
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h2. Protocol ideas
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"Salted tokens": instead of passing its literal token, the client passes the token UUID and @HMAC(token, "bbbbb")@ when sending a request to cluster B (where "bbbbb" is cluster B's cluster ID / UUID prefix). Cluster B validates the request by passing those two parameters untouched to a "verify request" ("no-op") endpoint at cluster A.
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* API server hands out tokens in the form "tokenUUID <delimiter> secret" instead of just the secret part.
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* Cluster B figures out cluster A's API endpoint by looking at the "site ID prefix" of the token UUID.
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* Cluster B can be configured with a lookup table (clusterID&rarr;apiHost) to override the implicit {id}.arvadosapi.com
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* Cluster B can be configured to _only_ use the lookup table, i.e., to never use implicit {id}.arvadosapi.com endpoints
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"Cluster-scoped tokens": the client contacts cluster A to get a scoped token which only allows "GET /users/current" on cluster A but is accepted by cluster B as an [all] token for that user.
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h2. Adding permissions
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There are a few permission-granting cases to consider.
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|grantor|grantee|object|notes|
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|user on site A|user on site A|object on site A|(existing permission system)|
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|user on site A|group on site A|object on site A|(existing permission system)|
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|user on site A|user or group on site A|object on site B|Client creates a link at site B. Site B asks site A whether the grantee user/group is visible to user A.|
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|user on site A|user or group on site B|object on site B|Client creates a link at site B. Site B asks site A for a list of groups user A can see, then checks whether (possibly via one of those groups) user A can read the grantee user/group according to site B's local database.|
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|user on site A|user or group on site B|object on site A|Client creates a link at site A. Site A generates a salted token and uses it to ask site B whether user A can read the grantee user/group.|
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In all of these cases, "user on site A" has a UUID starting with "aaaaa-" and therefore uses a token issued by cluster A (see "protocol ideas" above).
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When site B connects to site A in the course of processing request R, it uses the token provided by the client in request R.
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h2. TODO
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Things to address
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* how to sync groups
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* diagrams
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* mnemonic cluster names / more concrete examples (including who is reachable on the internet)
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* [how] do you get a list of users/groups you can share stuff with?
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* clarify what UUIDs look like (some people have A uuids, some have B uuids)
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* [[Cross-cluster delegation]]