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Static analysis of security context requirements

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Rust
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Description

Summary of the new feature / enhancement

Required security context can be described in the configuration via a top level directive, but individual resources can also have their own directive to override. Resource manifests can also declare which operations require a specific security context.

There is also a future feature to allow an elevated context to create restricted child processes for resources.

So the whole result is complicated, but ideally there should be static analysis performed if the deployment would be successful under the current security context before deployment starts.

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Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by tracing how top-level and per-resource security-context directives and resource operation requirements are represented, then identify the deployment validation path; done would mean a defined static check for whether deployment succeeds under the current context, including the stated override and operation cases.

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Assessment

Domain
security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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