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Joseph Doherty 4886a5783f Phase 3 PR 31 — Live-LDAP integration test + Active Directory compatibility. Closes LMX follow-up #4 with 6 live-bind tests in Server.Tests/LdapUserAuthenticatorLiveTests.cs against the dev GLAuth instance at localhost:3893 (skipped cleanly when unreachable via Assert.Skip + a clear SkipReason — matches the GalaxyRepositoryLiveSmokeTests pattern). Coverage: valid credentials bind + surface DisplayName; wrong password fails; unknown user fails; empty credentials fail pre-flight without touching the directory; writeop user's memberOf maps through GroupToRole to WriteOperate (the exact string WriteAuthzPolicy.IsAllowed expects); admin user surfaces all four mapped roles (WriteOperate + WriteTune + WriteConfigure + AlarmAck) proving memberOf parsing doesn't stop after the first match. While wiring this up, the authenticator's hard-coded user-lookup filter 'uid=<name>' didn't match GLAuth (which keys users by cn and doesn't populate uid) — AND it doesn't match Active Directory either, which uses sAMAccountName. Added UserNameAttribute to LdapOptions (default 'uid' for RFC 2307 backcompat) so deployments override to 'cn' / 'sAMAccountName' / 'userPrincipalName' as the directory requires; authenticator filter now interpolates the configured attribute. The default stays 'uid' so existing test fixtures and OpenLDAP installs keep working without a config change — a regression guard in LdapUserAuthenticatorAdCompatTests.LdapOptions_default_UserNameAttribute_is_uid_for_rfc2307_compat pins this so a future 'helpful' default change can't silently break anyone.
Active Directory compatibility. LdapOptions xml-doc expanded with a cheat-sheet covering Server (DC FQDN), Port 389 vs 636, UseTls=true under AD LDAP-signing enforcement, dedicated read-only service account DN, sAMAccountName vs userPrincipalName vs cn trade-offs, memberOf DN shape (CN=Group,OU=...,DC=... with the CN= RDN stripped to become the GroupToRole key), and the explicit 'nested groups NOT expanded' call-out (LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN / tokenGroups is a future authenticator enhancement, not a config change). docs/security.md §'Active Directory configuration' adds a complete appsettings.json snippet with realistic AD group names (OPCUA-Operators → WriteOperate, OPCUA-Engineers → WriteConfigure, OPCUA-AlarmAck → AlarmAck, OPCUA-Tuners → WriteTune), LDAPS port 636, TLS on, insecure-LDAP off, and operator-facing notes on each field. LdapUserAuthenticatorAdCompatTests (5 unit guards): ExtractFirstRdnValue parses AD-style 'CN=OPCUA-Operators,OU=...,DC=...' DNs correctly (case-preserving — operators' GroupToRole keys stay readable); also handles mixed case and spaces in group names ('Domain Users'); also works against the OpenLDAP ou=<group>,ou=groups shape (GLAuth) so one extractor tolerates both memberOf formats common in the field; EscapeLdapFilter escapes the RFC 4515 injection set (\, *, (, ), \0) so a malicious login like 'admin)(cn=*' can't break out of the filter; default UserNameAttribute regression guard.
Test posture — Server.Tests Unit: 43 pass / 0 fail (38 prior + 5 new AD-compat guards). Server.Tests LiveLdap category: 6 pass / 0 fail against running GLAuth (would skip cleanly without). Server build clean, 0 errors, 0 warnings.
Deferred: the session-identity end-to-end check (drive a full OPC UA UserName session, then read a 'whoami' node to verify the role landed on RoleBasedIdentity). That needs a test-only address-space node and is scoped for a separate PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-18 15:23:22 -04:00

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# LMX Galaxy bridge — remaining follow-ups
State after PR 19: the Galaxy driver is functionally at v1 parity through the
`IDriver` abstraction; the OPC UA server runs with LDAP-authenticated
Basic256Sha256 endpoints and alarms are observable through
`AlarmConditionState.ReportEvent`. The items below are what remains LMX-
specific before the stack can fully replace the v1 deployment, in
rough priority order.
## 1. Proxy-side `IHistoryProvider` for `ReadAtTime` / `ReadEvents`
**Status**: Host-side IPC shipped (PR 10 + PR 11). Proxy consumer not written.
PR 10 added `HistoryReadAtTimeRequest/Response` on the IPC wire and
`MxAccessGalaxyBackend.HistoryReadAtTimeAsync` delegates to
`HistorianDataSource.ReadAtTimeAsync`. PR 11 did the same for events
(`HistoryReadEventsRequest/Response` + `GalaxyHistoricalEvent`). The Proxy
side (`GalaxyProxyDriver`) doesn't call those yet — `Core.Abstractions.IHistoryProvider`
only exposes `ReadRawAsync` + `ReadProcessedAsync`.
**To do**:
- Extend `IHistoryProvider` with `ReadAtTimeAsync(string, DateTime[], …)` and
`ReadEventsAsync(string?, DateTime, DateTime, int, …)`.
- `GalaxyProxyDriver` calls the new IPC message kinds.
- `DriverNodeManager` wires the new capability methods onto `HistoryRead`
`AtTime` + `Events` service handlers.
- Integration test: OPC UA client calls `HistoryReadAtTime` / `HistoryReadEvents`,
value flows through IPC to the Host's `HistorianDataSource`, back to the client.
## 2. Write-gating by role — **DONE (PR 26)**
Landed in PR 26. `WriteAuthzPolicy` in `Server/Security/` maps
`SecurityClassification` → required role (`FreeAccess` → no role required,
`Operate`/`SecuredWrite``WriteOperate`, `Tune``WriteTune`,
`Configure`/`VerifiedWrite``WriteConfigure`, `ViewOnly` → deny regardless).
`DriverNodeManager` caches the classification per variable during discovery and
checks the session's roles (via `IRoleBearer`) in `OnWriteValue` before calling
`IWritable.WriteAsync`. Roles do not cascade — a session with `WriteOperate`
can't write a `Tune` attribute unless it also carries `WriteTune`.
See `feedback_acl_at_server_layer.md` in memory for the architectural directive
that authz stays at the server layer and never delegates to driver-specific auth.
## 3. Admin UI client-cert trust management — **DONE (PR 28)**
PR 28 shipped `/certificates` in the Admin UI. `CertTrustService` reads the OPC
UA server's PKI store root (`OpcUaServerOptions.PkiStoreRoot` — default
`%ProgramData%\OtOpcUa\pki`) and lists rejected + trusted certs by parsing the
`.der` files directly, so it has no `Opc.Ua` dependency and runs on any
Admin host that can reach the shared PKI directory.
Operator actions: Trust (moves `rejected/certs/*.der``trusted/certs/*.der`),
Delete rejected, Revoke trust. The OPC UA stack re-reads the trusted store on
each new client handshake, so no explicit reload signal is needed —
operators retry the rejected client's connection after trusting.
Deferred: flipping `AutoAcceptUntrustedClientCertificates` to `false` as the
deployment default. That's a production-hardening config change, not a code
gap — the Admin UI is now ready to be the trust gate.
## 4. Live-LDAP integration test — **DONE (PR 31)**
PR 31 shipped `Server.Tests/LdapUserAuthenticatorLiveTests.cs` — 6 live-bind
tests against the dev GLAuth instance at `localhost:3893`, skipped cleanly
when the port is unreachable. Covers: valid bind, wrong password, unknown
user, empty credentials, single-group → WriteOperate mapping, multi-group
admin user surfacing all mapped roles.
Also added `UserNameAttribute` to `LdapOptions` (default `uid` for RFC 2307
compat) so Active Directory deployments can configure `sAMAccountName` /
`userPrincipalName` without code changes. `LdapUserAuthenticatorAdCompatTests`
(5 unit guards) pins the AD-shape DN parsing + filter escape behaviors. See
`docs/security.md` §"Active Directory configuration" for the AD appsettings
snippet.
Deferred: asserting `session.Identity` end-to-end on the server side (i.e.
drive a full OPC UA session with username/password, then read an
`IHostConnectivityProbe`-style "whoami" node to verify the role surfaced).
That needs a test-only address-space node and is a separate PR.
## 5. Full Galaxy live-service smoke test against the merged v2 stack
**Status**: Individual pieces have live smoke tests (PR 5 MXAccess, PR 13
probe manager, PR 14 alarm tracker), but the full loop — OPC UA client →
`OtOpcUaServer``GalaxyProxyDriver` (in-process) → named-pipe to
Galaxy.Host subprocess → live MXAccess runtime → real Galaxy objects — has
no single end-to-end smoke test.
**To do**:
- Test that spawns the full topology, discovers a deployed Galaxy object,
subscribes to one of its attributes, writes a value back, and asserts the
write round-tripped through MXAccess. Skip when ArchestrA isn't running.
## 6. Second driver instance on the same server
**Status**: `DriverHost.RegisterAsync` supports multiple drivers; the OPC UA
server creates one `DriverNodeManager` per driver and isolates their
subtrees under distinct namespace URIs. Not proven with two active
`GalaxyProxyDriver` instances pointing at different Galaxies.
**To do**:
- Integration test that registers two driver instances, each with a distinct
`DriverInstanceId` + endpoint in its own session, asserts nodes from both
appear under the correct subtrees, alarm events land on the correct
instance's condition nodes.
## 7. Host-status per-AppEngine granularity → Admin UI dashboard
**Status**: PR 13 ships per-platform/per-AppEngine `ScanState` probing; PR 17
surfaces the resulting `OnHostStatusChanged` events through OPC UA. Admin
UI doesn't render a per-host dashboard yet.
**To do**:
- SignalR hub push of `HostStatusChangedEventArgs` to the Admin UI.
- Dashboard page showing each tracked host, current state, last transition
time, failure count.