Tighten role-based access control and expose a permissions endpoint
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- Dominant language
- Python
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- Forks
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Description
Some sensitive endpoints (alert acknowledgement, camera live stream) need clearer role gating so that USER accounts cannot perform
agent/admin-only actions. The platform also needs a reliable way to know, ahead of time, whether the current user can perform a given
action.
Goals
- Enforce role checks on sensitive actions and ensure USER is blocked on:
- Alert acknowledgement (sequence labeling, sequence unmatch)
- Camera live stream access
- Return a clean, machine-readable error payload when access is denied, so the platform can display a proper message to the end user
(e.g. consistent detail + an error code like forbidden_role). - Add a GET /users/me/permissions (or equivalent) endpoint that returns, for the authenticated user, which actions they are allowed to
perform (e.g. can_acknowledge_alert, can_access_live_stream, can_label_sequence, …). The frontend should rely on this rather than
hardcoding role logic.
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 locating the alert acknowledgement, sequence labeling/unmatching, and camera live-stream entry points, then trace the existing role checks and denied-response conventions. Review how authenticated-user endpoints are organized before implementing the permissions response; done means USER accounts are blocked with a consistent forbidden_role payload and GET /users/me/permissions reports the relevant allowed actions.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- fastapi, python
- Domain
- api, authentication, authorization, backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100