oxidecomputer / oxidecomputer/omicron
Allow for the recovery silo to be accessible only via technician port
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- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 572
- Forks
- 97
- Avg merge
- 2d 12h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 96
Description
The recovery silo is highly privileged with its ability to reconfigure authentication settings for all other silos on a rack, and so authentication security of all silos depends on the authentication security of the recovery silo. However, by current design that is limited to just username + password without an ability to add any kind of MFA. With a recovery silo being as accessible as all other silos, it essentially results in the authentication security of all silos being reduced to just username + password, which may be significantly less strong than what's provided by a SAML provider.
Adding MFA requirements to a recovery silo may be desirable by some customers, though it introduces similar kinds of lockout potential issues as configuring it for SAML authentication.
Alternatively, if a recovery silo could be configured to only be accessible via a technician port then customers could rely on physical security measures in their facilities to protect the recovery silo.
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
No files, tests, or entry points are identified. Start by tracing how recovery-silo authentication and technician-port access are represented, then clarify whether the intended outcome is MFA support, technician-port-only access, or both. Done should include an agreed design, access restrictions, and tests covering recovery-silo lockout and authorization behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- authentication, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100