Create and test access control

This guide shows how to create and test access policies in Aidbox

Simple Access Policy

You can test access policies with Postman.

Access the Auth Clients tab and create a new client.

resourceType: Client
id: postman
secret: secret
grant_types: ['basic']

Access the Access Control tab and create new access policy with the code below. Let's consider the work of this policy. In this schema, two constraints are introduced:

1. it is allowed to use only the GET method;

2. it is allowed to use only request URIs starting with "/fhir/".

JSON-schema version:

resourceType: AccessPolicy
id: policy-for-postman
engine: json-schema
schema:
  required:
    - client
    - uri
    - request-method
  properties:
    uri:
      type: string
      pattern: '^/fhir/.*'
    client:
      required:
        - id
      properties:
        id:
          const: postman
    request-method:
      const: get

Matcho engine version:

resourceType: AccessPolicy
id: policy-for-postman
engine: matcho
matcho:
  client:
    id: postman
  uri: '#^/fhir/.*'
  request-method: get

Now, let's execute requests in Postman.

A request succeeds if at least one of the policies is valid for it.

Positive Test

GET {{base}}/fhir/Patient

Negative Test

POST {{base}}/fhir/Patient

Policy Debugging

Let's use the parameter __debug=policy in requests to see which JSON-schema validation returned true/false.

Positive Test

GET {{base}}/fhir/Patient

Negative Test

POST {{base}}/fhir/Patient

See the full documentation Access Policies.

Access Policies for Users

Previously, we tested access control for clients using Postman as a client. Now, let's create and test access policies for users. We will still need our client credentials.

First, we need to create a couple of users.

Access the Users tab and create two users in Aidbox.Cloud.

User 1

data:
  name: Camila Harrington
  roles:
    - Administrator
    - Doctor
email: [email protected]
password: password1
id: user1
resourceType: User

User 2

data:
  name: Jazmin Holmes
  roles:
    - Patient
email: [email protected]
password: password2
id: user2
resourceType: User

Read-Only Access for Patient Role

Now, let's define read-only access for the 'Patient' role. Create an access policy with the code below.

# matcho version
resourceType: AccessPolicy
id: policy-for-postman-users-role-patient
engine: matcho
matcho:
  user:
    data: { roles: {$contains: Patient} }
  client: { id: postman }
  request-method: get

resourceType: AccessPolicy
id: policy-for-postman-users-role-patient
engine: json-schema
schema:
  required:
    - client
    - user
    - request-method
  properties:
    user:
      required:
        - data
      properties:
        data:
          required:
            - roles
          properties:
            roles:
              not:
                items:
                  not:
                    enum:
                      - Patient
              type: array
    client:
      required:
        - id
      properties:
        id:
          const: postman
    request-method:
      const: get
description: Read-only access for users with role Patient from client Postman

Full Access for Administrator Role

Let's set access rights for administrators.

# matcho version
engine: matcho
matcho:
  request-method: {$enum: ['get','post','put','delete','patch']}
  user:
    data: {roles: {$contains: 'Administrator'}}
  client: { id: postman }

engine: json-schema
schema:
  required:
    - client
    - user
    - request-method
  properties:
    user:
      required:
        - data
      properties:
        data:
          required:
            - roles
          properties:
            roles:
              not:
                items:
                  not:
                    enum:
                      - Administrator
              type: array
    client:
      required:
        - id
      properties:
        id:
          const: postman
    request-method:
      enum:
        - get
        - post
        - put
        - delete
        - option
        - patch
        - head
description: Full access for users with role Administrator from client Postman
id: policy-for-postman-users-role-administrator
resourceType: AccessPolicy

Test User Access Control

Get Bearer Token for User

Now, let's test the policies in Postman.

First, we need to get bearer token for a user and a client.

This line grant_type: password should not be changed.

POST {{base}}/auth/token

client_id: postman
client_secret: <your-client-password>
username: [email protected]
password: <your-user1-password>
grant_type: password

Execute the request and copy the received access_token value. Paste it to your test request in the Authorization header with the word Bearer before it.

E.g. you got the access_token:

{
    "access_token": "45ab638d-9a3a-492b-b2df-0d8295c108fc",
    "refresh_token": "eyJzZXNzaW9uX2lkIjoiODJhYjYzOGQtOWEzYS00OTJiLWIyZGYtMGQ4Mjk1YzEwOGZjIiwidXNlcl123456InVzZXIxIiwiaWF0IjoxNTQyMDMxODkyfQpvbjE4SUxtRXhVQWJmcl8zZUVGNTZUTl9vV0E",
    "token_type": "bearer"
}

Your authorization header will be: Bearer 45ab638d-9a3a-492b-b2df-0d8295c108fc.

Execute Requests with User Bearer Token

Now, let's execute requests from users to test their access.

Test user request with GET

GET {{base}}/fhir/Patient?__debug=policy

Test user request with POST

POST {{base}}/fhir/Patient?__debug=policy

The results of the schema validation should be the following:

Request/User	User 1 (Administrator)	User 2 (Patient)
GET	True	True
POST	True	False

See the full documentation Resource Owner Credentials Grant.

Signed RPC policy token

You can create policy-token to access rpc without creating AccessPolicy resource

To do that call aidbox.policy/create-policy-token RPC method:

POST {{base}}/rpc

method: aidbox.policy/create-policy-token
params:
  expiration: 3
  methods:
    aidbox.sdc/read-document:
	  params:
	    id: doc-1
	aidbox.sdc/save-document:
	  params:
	    id: doc-1

This RPC method will return you a JWT token, which can be used only to call two methods with params you described:

• aidbox.sdc/read-document

• aidbox.sdc/save-document

To make a call RPC with this token just pass it in body:

POST {{base}}/rpc

method: aidbox.sdc/read-document
params:
  id: doc-1
policy: <token from previous step>