Authentication and Authorization module user stories

Definitions:

• Data:
  • structural elements: entities (table), fields (columns), and user interface screens
  • objects or rows: instances of entities
• Users:
  • anonymous user: users who are not logged in
  • authenticated user: users that have registered to the system
  • adminstrator: special authenticated user who may manage overall permissions for the MOLGENIS app.
• Permission:
  • read permission: ability to view the data
  • write permissions: ability to edit the data
  • execute: ability to use data inside processing
  • ownership: ability to add or remove data or set permissions
  • sharing permissions: that is row-level security which is defined as defining permissions per data row/object.

As an administrator I want to set read, write, execute and ownership permissions on entities including entities, fields, rows and screens.

"Users and Groups screen"

Acceptance criteria:

• I can define that entity Sample is editable by the group 'Students' except the column 'Name' and only within the screen 'Lab'.
• I can define that entity Investigation is viewable to group 'Lab workers' but only column Name so that it can be used in 'xrefs'.
• I can define that entity Protocol can be edited by 'Lab technicians' except in the screen 'All protocols'.
• Please add!

Tickets:

• Create an interface MolgenisElement?. Make Entity, Field, ScreenModel? implement MolgenisElement?.
• Create an interface Authorizable with fields owner: xref->MolgenisUser, shareRead: xref->MolgenisGroup, shareWrite: xref->MolgenisGroup.
• Extend Permission enum in DatabaseLogin? to cover read, write, execute and ownership.
• Extend the InstallPlugin? so that there is always an Administrator user in the database and it can't be deleted.

As an administrator I want to be able to manage users and groups.

Acceptance criteria:

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Tickets:

• Create a user interface to manage users and groups that is accessible to the administrator only.

As authenticated user I want to create my private groups of users and, for objects that I own, add permissions on users or groups.

Acceptance criteria:

• I want to indicate for each of the Investigations I own what groups are allowed to edit and view.
• I want to be able to transfer ownership of a data objects to another user
• I want to be able to transfer ownership on all my data object to another user
• I want to say that my friend Peter can see all Protocols that I own but not all my ObservedValue? except those ObservedValue? I marked as 'public'.
• If multiple permissions apply the narrower ones override the broader ones.
• Please add!

Tickets:

• Rename MolgenisRole to MolgenisGroup.
• Connect MolgenisUsers to MolgenisGroups using a many-many relationship. Figure out how to do that best: mref, explicit bridge table, inheritance, ...
• Create a table that contains MolgenisElements and connects them with MolgenisUser's and Permissions.
• Make Molgenis check permissions via central class. (To be refined.)
• Create a user interface to manage permissions for the entities owned by the user that is logged in.

As an administrator I want to have the possibility to forward permissions from an entity to others.

Acceptance criteria:

• I want that I can automatically derive my permissions on 'Sample' from the sharing permissions that are set on Investigation
• Please add!

Tickets:

• Create a function as part of the admin interface to forward permissions from an entity to others that are connected with it (xref, mref).

As a anonymous user I want to see all the entities I am entitled to see without logging in.

Acceptance criteria:

• Please add!

Tickets:

• Make sure that every database instance has a special 'anonymous' user
• Make the login class to log in this public user by default.

As an investigator I want to be able to share the permissions on all entities belonging to my investigation with other users or groups.

Acceptance criteria:

• I, Erik, can give my co-workers Despoina and Robert read-only access to all the features, values and targets belonging to my investigation AnimalDB.
• Please add!

Tickets:

• See above.