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Three controls gate Alpha's privileged operations -- the --security whitelist, the
--security token, and ACL -- and each passes when its own feature is unconfigured.
The protection an operator gets is whatever they configured rather than the union
of the three. The gap that leaves is specific: the whitelist answers where a
request came from and carries no credential, so widening it is by itself enough to
make administrative operations reachable anonymously from anywhere inside the
range. "whitelist=0.0.0.0/0" is a common setting and nothing is left to check.
This adds a key that names the missing decision: --security "anonymous=full|data|
none", where an anonymous caller is one whose request produced no x.Principal.
full today's behavior, and the default. Nothing about an unconfigured cluster
changes.
data queries, mutations, commits, login, and health stay open; every
Capability check denies regardless of the whitelist.
none additionally denies queries, mutations, and commits.
Implemented as an AccessController that wraps whichever policy is installed rather
than replacing it. "Has this caller been identified at all" is prior to and
independent of "what may this identity do", so answering it inside the capability
rules would mean every policy reimplementing the same check. It installs after
ConfigureIdentity so a deployment policy is wrapped, not discarded, and under
anonymous=full it installs nothing at all.
The --security token now mints a Principal (x.MethodPreshared) instead of
answering a yes/no, which is what makes a closed posture usable without standing
up full ACL. ACL is tried first so a request carrying both resolves to the user
and keeps userDataFromPrincipal's fast path. Principal.Groups is left empty on
purpose: x.IsSuperAdmin reads it by name, so a "guardians" entry would turn a
shared secret into cluster authority without passing authorizeClusterAdmin.
Subject matches audit.PoorManAuth so audit output for token-bearing callers is
unchanged, pinned by a test.
Zero honors the same key. Its admin HTTP handler stops letting a whitelisted
source IP stand in for the token once the posture is closed, and enforces the
non-strict routes (/state, /assign) that are otherwise open until something is
configured.
Two startup warnings, both pure and table-tested: a widened whitelist with no
credential, and a closed posture with no credential (where every capability check
denies, including the operator's own, so the cluster cannot be administered).
Also attaches full request identity on /query, /mutate, /commit, /state and
/health?all, which previously took only the access JWT. A live run caught this:
with anonymous=data and a token configured, /state refused a caller presenting
that token, because the header never became auth-token metadata.
TestHTTPEdgeResolvesIdentityThroughOneHelper pins it -- handlers go through
x.AttachRequestIdentity or appear in an exception list with a reason, and a stale
exception fails too.
Note for review: --security is shared with Zero and z.SuperFlag log.Fatals on an
unknown key, so a config that sets anonymous= will not start on a pre-v25 binary.
Nothing in-tree sets it, and no docker-compose or dgraphtest default was changed.
Verified against a live local cluster across all three values: the stock default
is byte-for-byte unchanged and silent; anonymous=data with whitelist=0.0.0.0/0
turns /state and listBackups from answered into Unauthenticated while queries keep
working; the token re-opens them; anonymous=none closes the data plane while
/health stays open for readiness.
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participant AlphaHTTPHandler
participant AttachRequestIdentity
participant edgraphServer
participant RequireIdentifiedCaller
AlphaHTTPHandler->>AttachRequestIdentity: Attach request identity to context
AlphaHTTPHandler->>edgraphServer: Submit query or mutation with context
edgraphServer->>RequireIdentifiedCaller: Check caller identity
RequireIdentifiedCaller-->>edgraphServer: Return result or Unauthenticated
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- Around line 54-59: Update the lockout warning in the posture check that calls
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…ntegration tag run_test.go is //go:build integration and declares a package-level `token *Token`, so an unaliased `go/token` import compiled fine untagged and broke the integration build. Caught by CI, not locally, for exactly that reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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133-200: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd a positive assertion for protected handlers.
The AST test reports only individual helper calls. If a protected handler loses
x.AttachRequestIdentityand adds no individual helper call, the test passes. The handler then does not copy request credentials into context or resolve the caller’sPrincipal, so the protected operation can reject an authenticated request.Add an explicit list of handlers that require request identity and assert that each contains
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var identityExceptions = map[string]string{ // Login is how an access JWT is obtained, so it must not depend on one being // present, and it needs no Principal of its own: edgraph.Login authorizes on // hasAdminAuth, which reads the peer and the auth token straight out of the // metadata this prelude attaches. "loginHandler": "login must not require a credential it is the means of issuing", } +var identityRequiredHandlers = map[string]string{ + "healthCheck": "the /health?all capability check", + "stateHandler": "the /state capability check", + "queryHandler": "the query operation", + "mutationHandler": "the mutation operation", + "commitHandler": "the commit operation", + "alterHandler": "the alter operation", +} + // TestHTTPEdgeResolvesIdentityThroughOneHelper pins an invariant that a live test // caught the hard way. @@ } _, exempt := identityExceptions[fn.Name.Name] + hasRequestIdentity := false ast.Inspect(fn, func(n ast.Node) bool { sel, ok := n.(*ast.SelectorExpr) if !ok { @@ if !ok || pkgIdent.Name != "x" { return true } + if sel.Sel.Name == "AttachRequestIdentity" { + hasRequestIdentity = true + return true + } why, bad := banned[sel.Sel.Name] if !bad { return true @@ return true }) + if reason, required := identityRequiredHandlers[fn.Name.Name]; required && !hasRequestIdentity { + t.Errorf("%s: %s does not call x.AttachRequestIdentity for %s", + fset.Position(fn.Pos()), fn.Name.Name, reason) + } } }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 133-200: Update TestHTTPEdgeResolvesIdentityThroughOneHelper to
track whether each function calls x.AttachRequestIdentity, and add an explicit
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staticcheck SA1019: go/parser.ParseDir is deprecated as of Go 1.25. Parse each non-test file with parser.ParseFile over a glob instead. That also scans files regardless of build tags, which is what this test wants: a handler compiled on one platform only is still a handler. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Superflag help lists keys alphabetically, so "anonymous" prints before "token" and "the token above" pointed at nothing. Name the option instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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179-180: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRecognize aliases for the
ximport.The scanner only matches selectors whose package identifier is literally
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Three review findings, each verified before changing anything.
The widened-whitelist warning fired on whitelist=127.0.0.1, because it treated
any non-empty whitelist as exposure. Loopback is admitted regardless, and the
public docs give exactly that value as the "allow localhost only" example, so
anyone following them got a false SECURITY warning. It now warns only when some
range admits a non-loopback address. A range is loopback-only when both of its
ends are loopback, which is exact: IPv4 loopback is contiguous and IPv6 loopback
is a single address.
The lockout warning ("this cluster cannot be administered") ran before
ConfigureIdentity, so it could not see a deployment authenticator. An external
JWT issuer installed there identifies callers with neither ACL nor a token, and
the warning was false for it. The check now runs after ConfigureIdentity and
stands down when a non-default authenticator is installed, via a new
x.AuthenticatorName(). Moving it also fixed a second bug: it ran before the port
offset was set, so under --port_offset it named the wrong HTTP port.
x.ACLAuthenticator's doc told deployments to compose with it, which now drops the
--security token as an identity. It points at edgraph.PresharedAuthenticator
instead.
TestHTTPEdgeResolvesIdentityThroughOneHelper only caught a partial prelude. A
handler that dropped the prelude entirely and started from context.Background()
called none of the banned helpers and passed. It now also requires
x.AttachRequestIdentity in every handler that reaches an authorization decision,
including resolveWithAdminServer, which carries the HTTP admin routes, and fails
on a stale entry. Verified by removing the prelude from stateHandler: the old
test passed, and the new one fails and names the handler.
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Hi @matthewmcneely , Found two gaps in the none posture:
1. Alter isn't gated in any posture. RequireIdentifiedCaller is only called from doQuery and CommitOrAbort. alter() authorizes through validateAlterOperation — hasAdminAuth (whitelist AND token-if-configured) plus authorizeAlter (ACL only) — and neither looks at the Principal; the only Alter path that reaches a Capability is drop_all. With whitelist=0.0.0.0/0, no token, ACL off, an anonymous caller under anonymous=none is refused on a query but can still change the schema, drop_attr, drop_op: DATA and drop_op: TYPE. Needs RequireIdentifiedCaller(ctx, "alter") in alter() under NeedAuthorize. Also worth deciding whether drop DATA/ATTR should count as administrative under data.
2. Subscriptions refuse everyone under none, authenticated or not. The poller rebuilds each poll's context from stored headers with x.AttachAccessJwt only — no auth token, no WithResolvedIdentity — so PrincipalFrom(ctx) is always nil on that path and the doQuery gate denies the poll even for a subscriber that presented a valid token or ACL JWT. Needs the AttachRequestIdentity equivalent applied to the stored header map.
…for subscriptions Two gaps from review (thanks @shiva-istari), both confirmed against a live cluster before changing anything. Alter was not gated by the posture at all. Only drop_all reaches a Capability, and the remaining gates on Alter -- hasAdminAuth (whitelist, plus the token if one is configured) and authorizeAlter (ACL) -- never consult the Principal. So with an open whitelist and nothing else configured, an anonymous caller under anonymous=data or anonymous=none could still change the schema, drop a predicate, or drop_op DATA, which empties the namespace. That is one-request data destruction in exactly the posture meant to close it. Every network Alter now requires an identified caller under data and none, via a new RequireIdentifiedAdmin called in validateAlterOperation after the in-process short-circuit, so AlterNoAuth is unaffected. Schema changes count, not only drops: Dgraph already classifies /alter as an admin operation, and a posture that admitted schema changes but refused drops is a line operators would have to learn. Pinned by driving the real validateAlterOperation across five Alter shapes and all three postures; removing the call site fails exactly the ten closed-posture cases. Subscriptions refused every subscriber under anonymous=none, authenticated or not. The poller rebuilt each poll's context from the stored headers with x.AttachAccessJwt alone, so the --security auth token never reached the context and no Principal was ever resolved. Both sites now go through one subscriberContext, which uses x.AttachRequestIdentity. A unit test pins that a stored token or ACL JWT resolves to a Principal, and fails on the old JWT-only prelude. The AST invariant could not have caught the second gap, because it only scanned dgraph/cmd/alpha. It now also scans graphql/subscription and requires subscriberContext to resolve identity. Reintroducing the original poller bug fails it with both checks naming the line. Also names schema changes and drops explicitly in the anonymous help text and in the AnonymousData doc comment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@shiva-istari thanks, both were real, and the first was worse than it looked. Fixed in 79de59d. 1. Alter. Confirmed live before changing anything, and it was not limited to On your question about whether drops should count as administrative under The check is a new 2. Subscriptions. Correct as described: both poller sites, the initial resolve and every poll after it, attached only the access JWT. Both now go through one This one also exposed a gap in my AST invariant: it only scanned I am also correcting the docs PR (dgraph-io/dgraph-docs#778), which said schema changes were unaffected by every posture. It is in the unpublished tree, so nothing incorrect is live. |
The page said schema changes were unaffected by every posture, and did not mention drops at all. That matched the code at the time and was wrong: review on dgraph-io/dgraph#9844 found that only drop_all reached the posture, so under anonymous=data an anonymous caller with an open whitelist could still change the schema, drop a predicate, or empty a namespace with drop_op DATA. The fix gates every network Alter under data and none. This moves schema changes and drops into the administrative table, adds a caution that drop_op DATA empties a namespace, tells operators that an application changing its own schema now needs the token, and syncs the alpha help text with the new binary. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Description
Adds a
--security "anonymous=full|data|none"superflag key that says directly what a callerwith no verified identity may do. The default is
full, which is the behavior of every earlierrelease, so nothing about an existing cluster changes.
Why
Three controls gate Alpha's privileged operations: the
--securitywhitelist, the--securitytoken, and ACL. Each one passes when its own feature is unconfigured, so the protection an
operator gets is whatever they configured rather than the union of the three. The gap that leaves
is specific: the whitelist answers where a request came from and carries no credential in it,
so widening the range is by itself enough to make administrative operations reachable
anonymously from anywhere inside it.
whitelist=0.0.0.0/0is a common setting, including in ourown
dgraph/standalonequickstart image, and in that posture there is nothing left to check.full(default)data/health. EveryCapabilitycheck and everyAlter(schema changes and drops) denies regardless of the whitelist.noneCheckVersion, and the health and readiness endpoints."Anonymous" means the request produced no
x.Principal: it presented no credential, or the oneit presented did not verify.
How it is enforced
The posture is an
AccessControllerthat wraps whichever policy is installed rather thanreplacing it. "Has this caller been identified at all" is prior to and independent of "what may
this identity do", and answering the first one inside the capability rules would mean every
policy, built in or installed, reimplementing the same check and keeping it consistent. It is
installed after
ConfigureIdentity()so a deployment policy gets wrapped instead of silentlydiscarding the floor, and under
anonymous=fullit installs nothing at all.Two operations don't go through a capability check, so they get explicit gates of their own:
drop_allreaches aCapability, soRequireIdentifiedAdmingates every networkAlterunderdataandnone: schema changes,drop_attr, and everydrop_op. Without it, ananonymous caller with an open whitelist could still empty a namespace with
drop_op: DATA. It runsafter the
NoAuthorizeshort-circuit, soAlterNoAuthis unaffected.none.RequireIdentifiedCallergatesdoQuery(which coversQuery,RunDQL,/query,/mutate,/graphql, and subscription polls) andCommitOrAbort.--security "token=..."now mints aPrincipalwithx.MethodPresharedinstead of answering ayes or no. That is what makes a closed posture usable without standing up full ACL: before this,
a token-bearing caller was indistinguishable from an anonymous one. Two details worth a look:
which also keeps
userDataFromPrincipal's fast path (it requiresMethod == MethodACL).Principal.Groupsis left empty on purpose.x.IsSuperAdminreads it by name, so aguardiansentry would turn a shared secret into cluster authority without passing throughauthorizeClusterAdminand its ACL-on exclusion.Subjectisaudit.PoorManAuth, because audit prefers the resolvedPrincipaloverre-parsing the credential and would otherwise change what every token-bearing request logs.
Pinned by
TestPresharedSubjectMatchesAudit.Zero honors the same key, since
--securityshares one defaults string. Its admin HTTP handlerstops letting a whitelisted source IP stand in for the token once the posture is closed, and
enforces the non-strict routes (
/state,/assign) that are otherwise open until something isconfigured.
Two startup warnings, both pure functions with a table test: a widened whitelist with no
credential, and a closed posture with no credential, where every capability check denies
including the operator's own and the cluster cannot be administered at all.
One fix that came out of running it
/query,/mutate,/commit,/stateand/health?allattached only the access JWT, neverthe auth token. Unit tests passed; a live cluster with
anonymous=dataand a token configuredthen refused a caller who was presenting that token on
/state, because the header never becameauth-tokenmetadata. All five now usex.AttachRequestIdentity.TestHTTPEdgeResolvesIdentityThroughOneHelperpins it: handlers indgraph/cmd/alphaeither gothrough
x.AttachRequestIdentityor appear inidentityExceptionswith a reason, and a staleexception fails the test too.
loginHandleris the one exception, since login must not depend ona credential it is the means of issuing.
Testing
Unit tests across
x,edgraph,dgraph/cmd/alpha, anddgraph/cmd/zero. The ones that carrythe argument:
TestBreakGlassIsNotAnIdentity: with ACL off and no token, break-glass grants cluster admin toany whitelisted source IP. Under
anonymous=datathe same context is refused.TestSecurityTokenIsAnIdentityUnderClosedPosture: the token identifies a caller, and does notbypass the whitelist while doing so.
TestAnonymousPostureCoversEveryCapability: the floor is capability independent, so a newCapabilityconstant cannot quietly escape it.TestAnonymousFullIsTheZeroValue: the v25 default is reachable by doing nothing.Also verified against a live local cluster across all three values:
dgraph alpha, no--securitywhitelist=0.0.0.0/0, no token,anonymous=full/stateandlistBackupsanswered unauthenticated, exposure warning loggedanonymous=dataUnauthenticated; queries and mutations still workwhitelist=0.0.0.0/0; token=...; anonymous=data/stateand/health?all; no warningsanonymous=none/healthstill open for readinessgo vetoutput is unchanged frommain(the same pre-existingcopylocksfindings).Notes for review
--securityis shared with Zero andz.SuperFlagcallslog.Fatalon an unknown key, so aconfig that sets
anonymous=will not start a pre-v25 binary. Nothing in-tree sets it: nodocker-compose*.ymland nodgraphtestdefault was changed. It does constrain howTAGS=upgradecan exercise this.anonymous=data,/staterequires a credential, because reading cluster topology is aCapTenantAdmincheck. That is correct by the flag's definition, butdgraphapi/cluster.gopolls
/statefor readiness, so adopting the closed posture in test infra needs a token.fullin v25 with the warnings above, and flipping the default todatainv26. Feedback on that, and on whether the three-value split is the right cut, is the main
thing I am after here.
This is deliberately scoped to the flag. The related completeness work (admin GraphQL resolvers
and admin HTTP routes that are registered with no middleware at all, the external-snapshot
DropDataarming requirement, and thepb.Zero/AssignIdsproxy that discards the serverinterceptor) is untouched and wants its own PR against
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