Bug #16687: 'access_settings' permission should be removed - Foreman

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Bug #16687

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'access_settings' permission should be removed

Added by Ranjan Kumar over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

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Users, Roles and Permissions

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Description

While creating new repository, the download policy gets loaded successfully but still display message ' You are not authorized to perform this action.' looks like ajax making foreman API call

"/api/v2/settings?search=name+%3D+default_download_policy"

Related issues 1 (0 open — 1 closed)

Related to Katello - Bug #16505: Unable to create a repository as non-admin user

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Justin Sherrill

09/10/2016

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Updated by Ranjan Kumar over 8 years ago

Related to Bug #16505: Unable to create a repository as non-admin user added

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Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

Project changed from Foreman to Katello

The API mentioned is a Foreman API, but this describes a Katello issue, so moving. If there's an issue with the API, please show it in more detail with logs/reproducer etc.

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Updated by Justin Sherrill over 8 years ago

Project changed from Katello to Foreman
Subject changed from Non admin user with all permission on products get error message "You are not authorized to perform this action." to User with 'access_settings' permission cannot access /api/v2/settings
Category set to Users, Roles and Permissions

To clarify, the issue is here:

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/controllers/settings_controller.rb#L4

One would think 'access_settings' would give the user read access to the settings, but it does not seem to.

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Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/controllers/api/v2/settings_controller.rb#L4 rather, for the API.

I don't think the access_settings permission should exist, settings should only really be viewed and edited by administrators as they are system-wide and some contain very sensitive data. It would need replacing with separate view/edit permissions if this was to be fixed. Non-admin users should not be expected to have access_settings, this would be very unusual.

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Updated by Justin Sherrill over 8 years ago

Subject changed from User with 'access_settings' permission cannot access /api/v2/settings to 'access_settings' permission should be removed

I can see arguments either way, but I'm okay keeping them restricted. I'll rename this to remove that permission to reduce confusion.

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Bug #16687

'access_settings' permission should be removed

Updated by Ranjan Kumar over 8 years ago

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

Updated by Justin Sherrill over 8 years ago

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

Updated by Justin Sherrill over 8 years ago