Let the controller ask an issued credential's tool in its own name, and seal it again over a remade pair (hq issue 526, ADR 0305)
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The bus left the controller out of the caller-named grants, so issued could never reach plex's tool; the
controller is now granted exactly the tools of offers whose software issues the credential, composed from
the records, so the installer's first user list is unchanged. A pair remade on a key change or accepted by
hand kept the issued stamp and was never sealed again; those writes now clear it.
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parent faf8b76b84
commit 4ee131e990
8 changed files with 176 additions and 4 deletions
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@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
package broker
import "testing"
// The controller asks a tool that answers a software-issued credential in its own name, and nothing else under
// `call` (novox/hq ADR 0305 §2, issue 526): the grant is composed from the records, so the installer's first user
// list, a controller with no records, carries none.
func TestTheControllerAsksAnIssuedCredentialsToolInItsOwnNameAlone(t *testing.T) {
r := Records{Nodes: []string{"n", "ace"}, Assigned: map[string][]Declared{
"n": {{Module: "x", Issued: []string{"t"}}},
"ace": {{Module: "plex", Issued: []string{"plex_issued_credential"}}, {Module: "kometa"}},
}}
users, err := Users(r)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
controller := users[0]
if controller.Kind != KindController {
t.Fatalf("the first user is %s", controller.Username())
}
perms, err := PermissionsFor(controller)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, s := range []string{
"mesh.mod.x.call.t.n.controller",
"mesh.mod.plex.call.plex_issued_credential.ace.controller",
} {
if !MayPublish(perms, s) {
t.Errorf("the controller may not publish %s", s)
}
}
for _, s := range []string{
"mesh.mod.x.call.t.n.ace.node-tools",
"mesh.mod.x.call.t.n." + CallerToken("ace.node-tools"),
"mesh.mod.plex.call.plex_issued_credential.ace." + CallerToken("ace.node-tools"),
"mesh.mod.plex.call.plex_status.ace.controller",
"mesh.mod.kometa.call.t.ace.controller",
"mesh.seat.mesh-controller.call.status.controller",
} {
if MayPublish(perms, s) {
t.Errorf("the controller may publish %s", s)
}
}
bare, err := PermissionsFor(Principal{Kind: KindController})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if MayPublish(bare, "mesh.mod.x.call.t.n.controller") {
t.Fatal("a controller composed with no records is granted a caller-named call")
}
}
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@@ -123,6 +123,13 @@ type Principal struct {
// permission and nothing beside it.
Invokes []string
// AsksIssued are the tools the controller asks in its own name for a credential a provider's software
// issued, each `<module>.<tool>` (novox/hq ADR 0305): on the subject that names its caller, so the tool
// knows the controller asks. Composed from the records, so the installer's first user list — a controller
// with no records — carries none, and moves with issue 464 like the rest of the controller's caller-named
// grants.
AsksIssued []string
// State is the local names of the state this principal's module keeps, and Reads the state of
// others it reads as `<module>.<name>` (novox/hq ADR 0201): a bucket each, kept by the owner's
// instances and read by whoever declares it.
@@ -890,6 +897,17 @@ func PermissionsFor(p Principal) (Permissions, error) {
// and moves with issue 464.
if p.Kind != KindController {
pub, sub = callerNamed(p.Username(), pub, sub)
} else {
// **But the tools that answer a software-issued credential** (novox/hq ADR 0305 §2): those answer the
// controller alone, and know it only from the subject's last token, so it asks them in its own name —
// those tools, on any machine, and nothing else under `call`.
for _, key := range p.AsksIssued {
module, tool, ok := strings.Cut(key, ".")
if !ok || module == "" || tool == "" || strings.ContainsAny(key, "*> ") {
continue
}
pub = append(pub, "mesh.mod."+module+"."+CallKind+"."+tool+".*."+CallerToken(p.Username()))
}
}
sort.Strings(pub)
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@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ type Declared struct {
Holds []Seat
// Uses are the seats this module sends to.
Uses []Seat
// Issued are the tools that answer a credential its software issued, one per offer that says so (novox/hq
// ADR 0305): the controller is granted to ask each in its own name, and no other tool so.
Issued []string
// Watches are the seats whose events it consumes.
Watches []Seat
// Invokes are the tools it calls, `<module>.<tool>` or `*` (novox/hq ADR 0152).
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ type Records struct {
// is a mesh that cannot be told anything, and there is no state of the records in which that is
// correct.
func Users(r Records) ([]Principal, error) {
out := []Principal{{Kind: KindController, Uses: asksSeatOf(r)}}
out := []Principal{{Kind: KindController, Uses: asksSeatOf(r), AsksIssued: issuedOf(r)}}
for _, node := range sortedCopy(r.Nodes) {
witness := false
@@ -203,6 +206,25 @@ const controllerModule = "mesh-controller"
// asksSeatOf is the seat an ask is made on, as its holder declares it (novox/hq ADR 0259): the controller
// asks the operator through it like any other user, and is granted what its declaration names for a caller.
// None while nothing holds it.
// issuedOf is every tool of a module assigned anywhere that answers a credential its software issued, as
// `<module>.<tool>` (novox/hq ADR 0305): what the controller asks in its own name, and nothing beside.
func issuedOf(r Records) []string {
seen := map[string]bool{}
var out []string
for _, node := range sortedCopy(r.Nodes) {
for _, d := range r.Assigned[node] {
for _, t := range d.Issued {
if key := d.Module + "." + t; !seen[key] {
seen[key] = true
out = append(out, key)
}
}
}
}
sort.Strings(out)
return out
}
func asksSeatOf(r Records) []Seat {
for _, node := range sortedCopy(r.Nodes) {
for _, d := range r.Assigned[node] {