Grant users access to their own sync topic under deny-all

Manager.Authorize had no special case for a user's own sync topic, so with
auth-default-access=deny-all the per-account sync topic (st_...) fell through
to the default access and was denied. This broke web app account sync for
non-admin users: wss://.../st_<id>/ws returned 403. Admin-role users were
unaffected via the existing role bypass.

Allow a user full access to their own SyncTopic in Authorize. This fixes
existing users without a migration, since it needs no ACL row.

Fixes #733

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Les Orchard
2026-06-17 11:58:29 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent fd0f0657b9
commit cac3b2986a
2 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions
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@@ -639,6 +639,13 @@ func (a *Manager) Authorize(user *User, topic string, perm Permission) error {
if user != nil && user.Role == RoleAdmin {
return nil // Admin can do everything
}
// A user always has full access to their own sync topic, which the apps use
// to sync subscriptions/settings across devices. Without this, an
// auth-default-access of "deny-all" locks the user out of their own sync
// topic (no ACL entry is created for it at user creation). See #733.
if user != nil && user.SyncTopic != "" && topic == user.SyncTopic {
return nil
}
username := Everyone
if user != nil {
username = user.Name
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@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ func TestManager_FullScenario_Default_DenyAll(t *testing.T) {
require.Nil(t, a.Authorize(ben, "announcements", PermissionRead))
require.Equal(t, ErrUnauthorized, a.Authorize(ben, "announcements", PermissionWrite))
// User has full access to their own sync topic, even under deny-all,
// but not to another user's sync topic (#733)
require.Nil(t, a.Authorize(ben, ben.SyncTopic, PermissionRead))
require.Nil(t, a.Authorize(ben, ben.SyncTopic, PermissionWrite))
require.Equal(t, ErrUnauthorized, a.Authorize(ben, john.SyncTopic, PermissionRead))
require.Equal(t, ErrUnauthorized, a.Authorize(ben, john.SyncTopic, PermissionWrite))
// User john should have
// "deny" to mytopic_deny*,
// "ro" to mytopic_ro*,