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Joseph Doherty dd939d3c97 feat(acl): anonymous becomes a normal grantable principal (#520 D3)
Anonymous sessions used to short-circuit in HandleImpersonation — "let the SDK's
default validation stand" — so they always connected and always carried no roles.
Now admission and authority are separated:

  admission  -> OpcUa:AllowAnonymous, the HOST's decision (it owns token policies)
  authority  -> the authenticator, resolving the reserved principal "anonymous"
                through the SAME grant path a key's principal goes through

So anonymous can be granted WRITE, not merely tolerated as read-only, and it
arrives at the downstream gates as the same RoleCarryingUserIdentity a key
produces — which is the real payoff: no gate carries an anonymous-shaped branch,
so there is no bypass path to get wrong.

AllowAnonymous defaults to TRUE on purpose. Defaulting it false would silently
deny every client without a key the moment this deploys, including ScadaBridge's
Data Connection Layer in another repo. Making keys mandatory is a rollout
decision, not an upgrade side effect. When false, the Anonymous token policy is
withheld so a client is refused at DISCOVERY rather than only at activation, and
activation is rejected independently in case a client attempts a token type the
endpoint never advertised.

Two fail-closed choices, both falsified:
- A failure to read anonymous's grants DENIES rather than admitting with no
  roles. Admitting is the pre-#520 behaviour, and defaulting to it exactly when
  the server cannot determine what anonymous may do stops being harmless once
  reads are gated. Making it admit reds Anonymous_denies_when_grants_cannot_be_read.
- A key may not authenticate as the reserved "anonymous" principal, or a
  credentialled client silently inherits whatever anonymous was granted.

AuthenticateAnonymousAsync is a DEFAULT interface implementation returning
admit-with-no-roles, i.e. exactly the pre-#520 behaviour, so
NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator and every test double keep working rather than being
forced to reimplement it — important because driver-only nodes run the Null one
and would otherwise black out. Note a default interface method is only reachable
through the interface-typed reference, which is how OpcUaApplicationHost holds it.

An existing test asserted the old fall-through and correctly went red; it is
rewritten to pin the new contract rather than deleted, with the reason recorded.

OpcUaServer 366, Host 42 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 13:20:14 -04:00
Joseph Doherty 0329fa4d4b feat(acl): API-key identity replaces LDAP on the OPC UA data plane (#520)
Stage 2a. Clients present the static username "apikey" with an
otua_<keyId>_<secret> credential as the password; the key resolves to a
principal. LDAP registrations are deliberately RETAINED for AdminUI login —
only IOpcUaUserAuthenticator moves, which is what D2 asked for.

The load-bearing decision here is what roles a key gets. The two live gates
(WriteOperate on Value writes, AlarmAck on Part 9 methods) check a SERVER-WIDE
role set, so the cutover has to keep producing one or it would lock every client
out of writes long before per-node evaluation lands in stage 5.

ApiKeyInterimRoleMapper therefore maps ACL grants to roles, but ONLY
cluster-scoped ones. The obvious version — union the permission flags across all
of a principal's grants — would let a grant authored narrowly ("WriteOperate on
Equipment X") confer server-wide write authority, because nothing in the pipeline
can enforce scope yet. That fails in the dangerous direction: the operator's
narrow intent silently becomes broad. Restricting to cluster scope under-grants
instead, which is no worse than today (where every ACL row does nothing) and can
never exceed what was authored. Falsified: deleting the scope check reds exactly
A_narrower_scoped_write_grant_confers_nothing_yet and nothing else.

Verification is one indexed lookup plus one HMAC, with no network I/O at all.
That matters because the SDK raises ImpersonateUser synchronously while holding a
SessionManager-wide event lock, so this path does not stall one request — it
serializes every session activation server-wide. It is the main practical gain
over the LDAP bind it replaces.

Every rejection returns one opaque message so the server cannot be used as an
oracle for whether a key id exists or which half of a credential was wrong; a
test asserts the failure modes really are indistinguishable AND that a valid key
still succeeds, so it cannot pass by denying everything.

Caught while wiring: OtOpcUaServerHostedService takes IOpcUaUserAuthenticator as
a REQUIRED ctor parameter, so leaving a driver-only node unregistered is not a
quiet fallback to deny-all — it fails DI and the node does not boot.
NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator is now registered explicitly there. A driver-only node
has no ConfigDb since Phase 4 and so has no key source until the artifact-backed
store lands in stage 4; it denies UserName tokens until then, which is the safe
direction, and anonymous sessions are unaffected.

LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator is now registered nowhere and is dead code. Deleting
it plus LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticatorTests / LdapAuthResilienceTests /
LdapGlauthOutageLiveTests is stage 2b, kept separate because those cover a
live-gated resilience feature (hard wall-clock bound, bounded concurrency,
directory-outage circuit) that exists precisely BECAUSE the LDAP bind ran inline
on session activation — a constraint the key path does not have. That deserves
its own commit, not a footnote in this one.

Anonymous-as-a-grantable-principal (D3) is also stage 2b.

Host 37, Security 89, OpcUaServer 364 green.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
2026-07-31 12:57:51 -04:00