Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of FeddGeniUseCases

Timestamp:

Nov 30, 2009 6:12:39 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

faber

Comment:

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FeddGeniUseCases

@@ -62 +62 @@
   Principal '''P1''' assigns attribute '''P1.attr1''' to any principal that has attribute '''P2.link_attr''' asserts has '''attr2''' in that principal's name space.  For example if '''P3''' has the '''P2.link_attr''' attribute and '''P3''' assigns '''P4''' the '''P3.attr2''' attribute, '''P1''' has assigned it the '''P1.attr1''' attribute.  All principals with the '''P2.link_attr''' attribute have been granted authority to assign the '''P1.attr1''' attribute by assigning their local '''attr2''' attribute.  "GENI.researcher <-- (NSF.funded).researcher" encodes the policy that GENI recognizes all researchers funded by NSF (and issued an NSF.funded credential) as GENI researchers.
 
+Conjunctions of attributes may also be used
+
+ '''P3.attr3 <-- P2.attr2 and P1.attr1'''::
+  Printicpal '''P3''' assigns attribute '''P3.attr3''' to any principal possessing both '''P2.attr2''' and '''P1.attr1'''.
+
 === Three Level Names ===
 
@@ -69 +74 @@
 
 {{{
-(fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea, Deter, <any>) -> (TIED, <same>, <same>)
+(fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea, Deter, <any>) -> (TIED, duser, <same>)
 (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea, <any>, faber) -> (TIED, faber, <same>)
 (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea, Deter, faber) -> (TIEDadmin, faber, <same>)
 }}}
 
-An access controller on an emulab based testbed that was configured with those lines would grant any user that testbed fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea (let's call it deterlab.net) asserted was in the Deter project access to the local testbed and map it to the local TIED project with the same username (ignore the second username for now).  If that same testbed asserted that the requesting username was faber in any project the local testbed would allow access nd map that user into the local TIED project with username faber.  If the testbed asserted that the requesting project was Deter and the requesting username was faber, access would be permitted and the user mapped to the local TIEDadmin project with local username faber.  The most specific match wins and others are not allowed access.
+An access controller on an emulab based testbed that was configured with those lines would grant any user that testbed fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea (let's call it deterlab.net) asserted was in the Deter project access to the local testbed and map it to the local TIED project with the duser (ignore the second username for now).  If that same testbed asserted that the requesting username was faber in any project the local testbed would allow access and map that user into the local TIED project with username faber.  If the testbed asserted that the requesting project was Deter and the requesting username was faber, access would be permitted and the user mapped to the local TIEDadmin project with local username faber.  The most specific match wins and others are not allowed access.
 
 On the experiment controller side, lines like the following configure assignment of attributes to users:
@@ -84 +89 @@
 
 These lines map the first user (with the ascending fedid) to the faber username and the second (with the descending one) to 
-both the faber username and the Deter project.  If contacting a 
+both the faber username and the Deter project.  This file controls which attributes are certified by an experiment controller.
+
+If the experiment controller with fedid ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea is configured as above, when it contacts a testbed access controller configured as above on behalf of the ascending fedid, that user would be mapped to project TIED, user faber.  Similarly, the descending one is mapped to project TIEDadmin, user faber.
+
+=== Three Level Names in ABAC ===
+
+In order to assign local privleges to a user under ABAC, the local access controller binds ABAC attributes to local resource controls and uses ABAC to prove that a principal requesting resources has those attributes.  For example, an access controller of an Emulab-based testbeds would assign ABAC attributes to project/user pairs and prove that requesting experiments had those attributes.  The assignment of attributes by the experiment conroller (or another testbed) would be controlled by that testbed, but the reasoning about those attributes is controlled by the local access controller.
+
+A simple way to encode these permissions is to map each local project, user tuple into an ABAC attribute.  For example, the local TIED, faber pair could be encoded as the ABAC principal fedid ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea:TIED_faber.  Because it is easier to think of setting up separate rules for usernames and projects, that attribute (denoting the pair) would probably be derived from a rule of the form:
+
+fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.TIED_faber <-- fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea:TIED and fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.faber
+
+Now consider the derivation of a project attribute for a local testbed with fedid:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111.  The rules above (that pretain to projects) become the following ABAC rules:
+
+fedid:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111:TIED <--- (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.DETER).actfor
+fedid:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111:TIED <--- (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.faber).actfor
+fedid:1111111111111111111111111111111111111111:TIEDadmin <--- (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.DETER).actfor and (fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea.faber).actfor 
+
+As we mention above, requests for resources are made by an experiment principal.  If that experiment principal has been delegated the actfor attribute by a prinicpal in the DETER project from the testbed with fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea, it may be given access to the TIED group locally.  Similarly a user who both had the faber (username) and DETER (project) attributes from that testbed can be given access to the TIEDadmin group locally.  (The username and projectname semantics are by convention.  If the namespaces collide, or if this is unclear, conventions can be made to make those semantics explicit.)
+
+On the testbed that is granting the credentials - the one with fedid:ce90957dd5b7d20f9c3890c4599313b7f1cf31ea in this case - usernames and projects are assigned as ABAC credentials.  Using the same ascending and descending fedids as above, the ABAC looks like:
+
+