Role Based Access Control

Maybe I’m misunderstanding the question, but isn’t the whole point of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to avoid Access Control Lists (ACLs)? RBAC differs from access control lists (ACLs) (…) in that it assigns permissions to specific operations with meaning in the organization, rather than to low-level data objects. For example, an access control list could … Read more

Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at

The server at x3.chatforyoursite.com needs to output the following header: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.example.com Where http://www.example.com is your website address. You should check your settings on chatforyoursite.com to see if you can enable this – if not their technical support would probably be the best way to resolve this. However to answer your question, you need the … Read more

How do I use Access-Control-Allow-Origin? Does it just go in between the html head tags?

There are 3 ways to allow cross domain origin (excluding jsonp): Set the header in the page directly using a templating language like PHP. Keep in mind there can be no HTML before your header or it will fail. Modify the server configuration file (apache.conf) and add this line. Note that “*” represents allow all. … Read more

What is the best way to notify a user after an access_control rule redirects?

So after quite a bit of research, I found the right way to do this. You’ll need to use an Entry Point service and define it in your firewall configuration. This method will not mess with your default page settings specified in your firewall config for logging in. The Code security.yml: firewalls: main: entry_point: entry_point.user_login … Read more

How to implement Permission Based Access Control with Asp.Net Core

Based on the comments, here an example on how to use the policy based authorization: public class PermissionRequirement : IAuthorizationRequirement { public PermissionRequirement(PermissionEnum permission) { Permission = permission; } public PermissionEnum Permission { get; } } public class PermissionHandler : AuthorizationHandler<PermissionRequirement> { private readonly IUserPermissionsRepository permissionRepository; public PermissionHandler(IUserPermissionsRepository permissionRepository) { if(permissionRepository == null) throw new … Read more

Role-based access control (RBAC) vs. Claims-based access control (CBAC) in ASP.NET MVC

I will try to explain the Role/Claim/Permission-based Access Control concept in layman’s terms. The code snippet I will present here, are pseudocode, may or may not compile. What are Roles? Roles can be thought of as Job Titles. Like “Sales Manager”, “Marketing Manager”, “Admin” etc. What are the claims? Claims can be broader than a … Read more

PHP: How can I block direct URL access to a file, but still allow it to be downloaded by logged in users?

Into folder members create new folder files, move here all your songs, create new .htaccess file and add the following lines: Order Deny,Allow Deny from all Into folder members create file get_song.php and add the following code: if( !empty( $_GET[‘name’] ) ) { // check if user is logged if( is_logged() ) { $song_name = … Read more