[Kimchi-devel] RFC: Design of the authentication in Kimchi

[Wen Wang]

Hi all,

Due to the fact that Kimchi needs authentication feature to be designed. 
I an posting my point of view below of how I thought about doing it, 
including how I plan doing it in the front-end and request for help for 
the back end support.

Kimchi changed to a traditional login patten in last release that makes 
Kimchi more secure to use. It Before login, the front-end can hardly get 
any html information before user actually login. As we discussed, root 
user will have full access to Kimchi whereas the non-root user will have 
restricted privileges. It will be easier and more decent to show the 
proper tabs to certain users that distinguished by the back-end. Now the 
tabs are generated by an xml file generated from the back-end that show 
all 5 tabs. We probably need to have the '*Host*' and '*template*' 
tab_removed_ for non-root users, which is recommended to be done in the 
back-end.

Also there need to be information provided to the front-end like the 
user-name, user-role as well as user-group, etc. that indicate user 
identity after login. The browser need the information to give certain 
privileges to certain users and disable the unnecessary functions. My 
suggestion is to have these 3 parameters passed: ***user-name, 
user-role* as well as *user-group*. There is a better extendibility to 
user the user-role other than isRoot so that we can define more roles in 
the future. As fact that we have only defined two roles now, the 
user-role parameter can be divided into root and guest based on user is 
root or non-root. These message can get from *sessiondada*, *cookie *or 
passed according to a query. the way passing the info of the user is 
still under discussion. Request for your advises.

Best Regards

Wang Wen
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