The XML remark above OtOpcUaNodeManager.Browse still carried the exact claim the
security.md correction in 22ae1836 removed: there is ONE shared root folder
(V3NodeIds.SharedRootFolderId, raw namespace) fronting both realm trees, not one
per namespace. Rewritten to name the anchor, the ns=0 listing behaviour, and the
zero-segment realm-root mapping that now admits transit holders.
Also completes the BuildScope collision remark (code-review Minor): the degenerate
raw folder literally named OtOpcUa loses the accidental grant leak onto the
anchor's Read/Write that the old one-segment scope allowed — a narrowing,
fail-closed side effect, now recorded.
Comment-only change; addresses the code review's sole Important + Minor.
With Security:Acl:Enabled=true, a session holding any grant narrower than
Cluster could not browse the served address space at all — confirmed by the
live gate.
Mechanism. Both realm trees hang under ONE anchor folder minted in
CreateAddressSpace: NodeId("OtOpcUa", <raw ns>). ResolveParentFolder parents
every top-level raw folder AND every top-level UNS area under it, and the
Browse override throws BadUserAccessDenied for the WHOLE call when its source
node is denied. DataPlaneAuthorizer.BuildScope split that identifier like a
path, producing {Kind: Raw, Segments: ["OtOpcUa"]} — but trie grant paths are
["raw", <RawPath segments…>] and "OtOpcUa" is never a path segment, so
PermissionTrie.HasBrowseTransit failed at the realm-child lookup and
CollectMatches yielded only Cluster-scoped grants. Deny, at the front door.
The trie already handled a zero-segment scope as "the realm root, itself an
ancestor of everything granted in that realm" (PermissionTrie.cs:101-118) —
no production path had ever produced that scope. This wires it up.
- V3NodeIds.SharedRootFolderId names the anchor identity; CreateAddressSpace
now mints the NodeId/BrowseName/DisplayName from it (behaviour-identical,
makes the coupling explicit).
- BuildScope maps that identifier (realm-qualified to Raw — in the UNS
namespace s=OtOpcUa is an ordinary Area) onto the zero-segment Raw scope.
- Evaluate adds a second-realm OR-leg for Browse on the anchor only: it fronts
both trees, so a principal whose only Browse grant lives in the UNS tree
still enters through this raw node. Browse only; transit confers navigation,
never read/write/subscribe.
- No trie, evaluator or builder change. No reordering above the decision cache
— key revocation is still re-checked before the lookup — and the cache key
is unchanged (the combined verdict caches under the anchor's own
identifier/realm; a generation advance clears it).
Falsifications actually run (implement-then-revert-the-line, plus one
genuine red-first):
- DataPlaneAuthorizerTests: the 7 new facts were written BEFORE the fix and 4
went red (the 3 deny-only ones passed vacuously, as a deny-only test must).
- Deleting the UNS OR-leg reddens exactly one fact,
The_shared_root_folder_is_browsable_on_a_uns_only_browse_grant (26/27 pass).
- Dropping the realm qualification from IsSharedRootFolder reddens exactly
A_uns_area_named_like_the_anchor_gets_no_anchor_semantics. Its first draft
did NOT catch this — a raw-only grant is refused either way; the
discriminating grant had to be an unrelated UNS one, whose own transit marks
the zero-segment UNS scope the un-qualified mapping would land on.
- Disabling the BuildScope anchor branch reddens the new end-to-end fact
NodeManagerStage6EnforcementTests.The_shared_root_folder_is_browsable_on_a_narrow_grant_and_still_filters
(real booted server, real Browse dispatch: BadUserAccessDenied on the whole
call), which also pins that the reference filter still withholds the
non-granted sibling.
- Core PermissionTrieBrowseTransitTests gains 3 characterization facts pinning
the previously-dead realm-root branch (transit true for the granting realm's
root, false for the other realm's, false without the Browse bit). These were
green on arrival — the trie was always correct; nothing called it.
Tests: Core 351 -> 354 passed; OpcUaServer 482 -> 490 passed. Build clean.
Completes data-plane enforcement behind Security:Acl:Enabled. Read (every
attribute, not just Value), Browse, TranslateBrowsePath, CreateMonitoredItems,
SubscribeToEvents and SetMonitoringMode now consult scoped NodeAcl grants.
With the flag off nothing changes.
Four things went beyond the stage as written, each because leaving it out
would have made the feature look like it worked:
- Browse needed ancestor visibility. The trie inherits downward, and a client
reaches a deep node by browsing the nodes above it, so without this every
grant narrower than the cluster was authored, shipped and unreachable. It is
a separate non-inheriting marker, NOT a synthesized Browse grant on each
ancestor: the additive downward walk would carry such a grant from Plant onto
Plant/Siemens/dev9 and every other sibling subtree. Pinned by a test that
goes through the evaluator — probing the trie helper directly passes against
the broken design, because a sibling is absent from the trie either way.
- Revocation had to reach LIVE subscriptions. Every other operation re-asks per
request; a subscription is authorized once and then streams, and streaming is
how machine consumers actually read this server — so stopping only the
re-asking operations would have made revocation close to cosmetic.
IDataPlaneAuthoritySource gained a Changed event.
A denied item is queued BadUserAccessDenied and then DETACHED from its
MonitoredNode2 fan-out, not set MonitoringMode.Disabled. Disabling discards
the item's queued notifications, so the client is silenced without ever being
told why. The over-the-wire test caught this; the unit-level path reports the
item as stood down either way. Detaching is also reversible, so a restored
grant resumes the feed with no client action.
- The decision cache holds the grant WALK, not the decision. Grants and the
trie are fixed for a generation; a key's ExpiresUtc passes with the clock, so
caching the whole decision would let an expired key keep working until the
next deploy — the stage-5 open-session hole in a subtler form.
- TranslateBrowsePath is gated, without which browse filtering is decorative: a
client refused a browse asks TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds for the same path.
Found en route: UserAuthorizationState's staleness ceiling couples two clocks.
MembershipResolvedUtc is stamped from DataPlaneAuthorizer's TimeProvider while
IsStale is evaluated against TriePermissionEvaluator's; they are the same
instance in production and diverge the moment anything injects a test clock, at
which point the evaluator denies EVERYTHING with a verdict indistinguishable
from "no grant matched". Stage 5's claim that these predicates cannot fire was
accidentally true; they are now disabled explicitly.
Also fixed: ContinuationPoint.NodeToBrowse is the manager HANDLE, not a
NodeState. The declared type is object, so the wrong cast compiled cleanly and
silently yielded null — skipping the browse source gate entirely.
Falsified: disabling the transit marking reddens exactly the three tests that
assert transit works; implementing transit as an ancestor grant reddens the
sibling-leak test; skipping the fan-out detach reddens the revocation test.
Full solution suite green.
The stage 8 live gate has NOT run yet.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
`Security:Acl:Enabled` (default false) makes scoped `NodeAcl` grants decide
data-plane authorization at the three seams that have one, and gives HistoryRead
a check it never had. Read, Browse and Subscribe stay ungated — stage 6.
The ACL decision REPLACES the server-wide role check rather than chaining with
it. Chained, a grant would have to confer the role as well as pass the scope
check, and only Cluster-scoped grants confer a role — so every narrow grant
would have stayed inert and the flag would have looked inert too. The
load-bearing test is an ALLOW: a session carrying no roles at all writing
successfully on the strength of its grant. A deny-only test passes against a
build where the ACL is never consulted, because the role gate denies too.
Found en route: the principal never reached the session. The authenticator
passed it as OpcUaUserAuthResult.DisplayName, but RoleCarryingUserIdentity
derives DisplayName from the presented token — for a key-bearing client that is
the static username `apikey`, identical fleet-wide. So the trie's matching key
was dropped at the identity boundary, and the audit ClientUserId on a rejected
write recorded `apikey` for every consuming system. Principal and ApiKeyId are
now carried explicitly.
Beyond the stage as sketched:
- Revocation reaches an OPEN session. Every decision re-checks the
authenticating key against the current snapshot; without it a key revoked by a
deployment kept its authority until the client chose to reconnect, which for a
machine-to-machine consumer can be indefinitely.
- UserAuthorizationState is built per CALL, not per session. The per-session
shape exists so an LDAP session can re-resolve membership that changed out of
band; nothing can change out of band under API keys, so the generation stamp is
the whole invalidation signal and a per-call record picks it up for free.
IsStale/NeedsRefresh therefore cannot fire here and are documented as vestigial.
- The trie is built inside DataPlaneAuthorityState.Apply, under the same
generation as the snapshot, rather than by a second wiring at the publish
actor. An uninstalled trie denies everything — indistinguishable from working
enforcement. Deleting the install turns 13 of the 22 new tests red.
- The deploy log reports what the BUILD dropped instead of re-deriving it. The
old count agreed with the builder on one of its four drop reasons; a rule with
a blank ScopeId, a retired scope kind, or a path not starting at a realm
vanished with the log reading zero.
Both IApiKeyStore implementations widened to the full grant set. The narrowing
was redundant — ApiKeyInterimRoleMapper applies the same filter itself — and
became a trap once scope was enforced. Pinned by asserting the roles are
unchanged, with the two grants carrying different flags so it cannot pass by
accident.
Falsified by mutation: enforcement never engaging, the write seam ignoring the
ACL, the realm dropped from the scope, the revocation check removed, and the
trie never installed each turn the intended tests red and no others.
Full solution suite green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
Pulled forward from stage 7 because without it the feature is unusable and
un-live-gateable: there was no way to create a key short of hand-inserting a row
and computing an HMAC by hand.
The minting logic is an IApiKeyAdminService in Core.Authorization, NOT logic in
the Razor page — this repo has no bUnit, so anything only a page can reach is
untestable, and minting credentials is not where that belongs. The page is a thin
shell over it.
Moved to Core.Authorization so both ends can reach them: ApiKeyOptions (was in
Host) and OpcUaPrincipals (was in OpcUaServer.Security). The OPC UA server
resolves principals; the AdminUI must refuse to mint a key claiming a reserved
one. OpcUaServer already gained a Core reference in stage 1b, so no new edge —
AdminUI gains one.
ApiKeyOptions is now bound UNCONDITIONALLY rather than in the driver branch: a
driver node needs the pepper to VERIFY keys and an admin node needs it to MINT
them, and getting that wrong on either side is a silent authentication failure
rather than a startup error.
Validation rules, all covered: the reserved 'anonymous' principal is refused
case-insensitively (so "ANONYMOUS" cannot slip past into a distinct principal
that the evaluator would then match case-INsensitively against anonymous's
grants); blank name/principal; a principal longer than the column, rejected
rather than truncated, because silent truncation yields a key that authenticates
and is granted nothing with no visible cause; a past expiry. Generation runs
BEFORE the DbContext is opened so an unconfigured pepper surfaces as a clear
error instead of a stored row whose hash nothing can verify.
The page shows the plaintext ONCE and says so; it is held in component state and
written nowhere else, because the server keeps only a hash. Revocation is flagged
in the UI as taking effect only after the next deployment — driver-only nodes
have no ConfigDb, so keys ride the artifact.
FleetAdmin-only (Administrator), not ConfigEditor: this mints credentials.
Core.Tests 68 green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
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
Adds <summary>/<param>/<returns>/<inheritdoc> where missing and removes
project bookkeeping IDs (task/tracking refs) from shipped code comments,
so the docs read cleanly and CommentChecker is quiet except for known
false positives (PLC/protocol terms, event/IEqualityComparer inheritdoc).
Doc/comment-only; no logic changed; solution builds clean.
Wire the materialised AlarmConditionState method handlers so a client calling
Acknowledge/Confirm/Shelve/AddComment is gated on the AlarmAck data-plane role
and, when allowed, routed back to the scripted-alarm engine via a new
`alarm-commands` DistributedPubSub topic.
- Commons: new AlarmCommand DTO (AlarmId/Operation/User/Comment/UnshelveAtUtc).
- ScriptedAlarmHostActor: add AlarmCommandsTopic const.
- OtOpcUaNodeManager: settable AlarmCommandRouter + wire OnAcknowledge/OnConfirm/
OnAddComment/OnShelve/OnTimedUnshelve. Each resolves the principal off
ISessionOperationContext.UserIdentity as RoleCarryingUserIdentity, fails closed
(BadUserAccessDenied) when the AlarmAck role is absent or no identity, else maps
+ routes an AlarmCommand and returns Good. OnShelve discriminates OneShotShelve/
TimedShelve/Unshelve from the SDK flags; TimedShelve expiry = UtcNow + ms.
No Akka/IActorRef handle — only the Action<AlarmCommand> delegate. T20 de-dup
note left; WriteAlarmCondition untouched.
- OpcUaServer.Security: OpcUaDataPlaneRoles.AlarmAck shared const (the role was a
bare string everywhere; introduced one symbol for the gate + tests).
- OtOpcUaSdkServer: SetAlarmCommandRouter pass-through.
- Host: boot wiring publishes each command via mediator.Tell(Publish(...)) using a
lazy ActorSystem accessor (mirrors DpsScriptLogPublisher).
- Tests: 11 new gate + mapping tests (OpcUaServer.Tests 88->99, all green).
Code-review follow-up to T17: copy the roles into a fresh array at construction so a
caller mutating the source list cannot retroactively alter a session's granted roles,
and so the T18 ack gate's per-invocation .Contains(...) runs over a known-small frozen
array.
Stop discarding the authenticator's resolved roles during impersonation.
HandleImpersonation now sets args.Identity to a RoleCarryingUserIdentity
(: UserIdentity) that carries result.Roles, so a downstream method handler
can read them off context.UserIdentity for the inbound AlarmAck gate (T18).
Verified via the decompiled SDK (1.5.378.106) that the instance we assign to
ImpersonateEventArgs.Identity is stored by reference onto Session.Identity /
EffectiveIdentity and surfaced unchanged on OperationContext.UserIdentity --
the custom subclass survives the round-trip. No auth-decision logic changes.
Adds <summary>, <param>, <typeparam>, and <inheritdoc/> tags to public
members surfaced by commentchecker — resolves 5,847 of 5,869 issues
(99.6%) across three /fixdocs passes.
Adds IOpcUaUserAuthenticator seam in OpcUaServer.Security with a deny-all
NullOpcUaUserAuthenticator default. OpcUaApplicationHost subscribes to
SessionManager.ImpersonateUser after _application.Start so UserName tokens
flow through the authenticator and either attach a UserIdentity to the
session (Allow) or set IdentityValidationError = BadIdentityTokenRejected
(Deny / authenticator exception). Anonymous + X509 tokens fall through to
SDK defaults.
LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator (Host project) bridges to the same
ILdapAuthService that AddOtOpcUaAuth uses for Admin cookies / JWT, so a
single LDAP source-of-truth governs both Admin control plane and OPC UA
data plane. Program.cs registers LdapOptions + LdapAuthService +
IOpcUaUserAuthenticator on driver-role hosts; admin-only nodes are
unchanged.
OtOpcUaServerHostedService threads the resolved authenticator into
OpcUaApplicationHost so the seam respects Host DI.
10 new tests: 6 in OpcUaServer.Tests cover the pure HandleImpersonation
static method (success / denial / anonymous fallthrough / authenticator-
throw / null-username / Null authenticator); 4 in Host.IntegrationTests
cover the LdapOpcUaUserAuthenticator adapter (LDAP allow → Allow with
roles, LDAP deny → Deny, exception → backend-error denial, display-name
fallback). OpcUaServer suite is 40 / 40 green.
Closes#104. Unblocks Task 60 (dual-endpoint + ServiceLevel tests) once
#81 residual lands.
Joseph Doherty