Koa RBAC

Role-Based Access Control for Koa

This module follows the NIST RBAC model and offer a flexible solution to allow or restrict user operations.

Install

npm install koa-rbac --save

API

• allow (permissions[, params[, redirect]]) - use this when specifying a rule that should only allow the current user with the given permissions. If the rule fails, the user will be redirected to the redirectl URL argument value, if specified, or an error 403 ("Forbidden") will be returned.
• deny (permissions[, params[, redirect]]) - use this when specifying a rule that should restrict the current user with the given permissions. If the rule succeed (the user is denied), it will be redirected to the redirect URL argument value, if specified, or an error 403 ("Forbidden") will be returned.
• check (objPermissions[, params[, redirect]]) - use this when specifying a combined allow/deny rule with the given permissions. The argument objPermissions should be an object declaring one or two keys ('allow' and/or 'deny') whose values are a set of permissions such as provided for the allow and deny methods. If the rule fails (i.e. the user is either not allowed, or denied), it will be redirected to the redirect URL argument value, if specified, or an error 403 ("Forbidden") will be thrown.

Note: the argument permissions (and the values of the objPermissions object) are either a string (i.e. a comma-separated list) or an array of permission values.

Usage

// index.js
 
const rbac = require('koa-rbac');
const koa = require('koa');
const app = koa();
const rules = require('path/to/rules');
const options = {
  rbac: new rbac.RBAC({
    provider: new rbac.RBAC.providers.JsonProvider(rules)
  })
  // identity(ctx) { return ctx && ctx.user } // passes `user` to rbac-a provider
  // restrictionHandler(ctx, permissions, redirectUrl) { ctx.status = 403; }   // manually handle restricted responses
};
 
app.use(rbac.middleware(options));
app.use(rbac.check({
  'allow': 'update',
  'deny': 'read'
}));
app.use(function (ctx) {
  ctx.body = "Allowed updating but not reading!";
});

Note: the argument ctx inside the identity function is the same value as this inside koa's middleware functions. For example, if using a session storage, such as koa-session, it can be accessed through ctx.session.

See rbac-a for more information.

Contribution

All contributions welcome! Every PR must be accompanied by their associated unit tests!

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Mind2Soft [e-mail]

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