Grant API rights to Shibb group members
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Description
Overview of the Feature Request
User permissions on a dataset or a dataverse collection granted via Shibboleth group do not translate to API permissions.
Here is a proposal to be able to grant them API rights identical as the UI's while taking into account that a Shibboleth user can be removed from a federation while its token remains valid :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNjTmdf5vDe4KnvyjlHb4a_HHdwKnRC7FLIfzZJ9I8Q/edit?usp=sharing
What kind of user is the feature intended for?
(Example users roles: API User, Curator, Depositor, Guest, Superuser, Sysadmin)
API User, member of a Shibboleth group
What inspired the request?
Our use of Shibboleth group to give defaults rights to our collection (see the Background section of the proposal)
Any brand new behavior do you want to add to Dataverse?
Grant API access to Shibboleth group members if they are still active.
Any open or closed issues related to this feature request?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the linked proposal and comparing its requirements with Dataverse's existing UI permission behavior. Focus on granting equivalent API rights to Shibboleth group members while accounting for users removed from a federation whose tokens remain valid. Done means the requested access behavior is implemented and verified against those membership and token cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- api, authentication, authorization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100