system realm permissions

[AAndersn]

Bug: SystemBasedRealm grants the system principal a single malformed permission, breaking broker authorization

Component: pnnl.goss.core — bundle pnnl.goss.core.security-system
File: pnnl.goss.core/src/pnnl/goss/core/security/system/SystemBasedRealm.java
Method: loadSystemAccount()
Affected versions: GOSS core 16.0.1 (the security-system bundle shipped in the GridAPPS-D 16.x release cache)
Severity: High — the embedded ActiveMQ broker rejects the system principal, so GridAPPS-D cannot start.

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Summary

SystemBasedRealm.loadSystemAccount() builds the system account's permissions by
passing the entire comma-joined permission list to Shiro's singular
SimpleAccount.addStringPermission(String):

private static final String SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS =
    "queue:*,topic:*,temp-queue:*,fusion:*:read,fusion:*:write";
...
SimpleAccount account = new SimpleAccount(managerUser, managerPassword, getName());
account.addStringPermission(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS);   // <-- bug

addStringPermission(String) treats its argument as one WildcardPermission.
In a Shiro wildcard permission, : separates parts and , separates
sub-values within a single part — it does not separate independent
permissions. So the string above is parsed as a single permission whose:

• part 1 = queue and topic and temp-queue and fusion and fusion (the commas fold into one part's value set), and
• the remaining :-delimited parts come out garbled (*, *, *, read, *, write do not line up as intended).

The result is a permission that does not imply the concrete permissions the
ActiveMQ Shiro plugin checks at runtime, e.g.
topic:ActiveMQ.Advisory.Connection:create. The broker therefore throws:

org.apache.shiro.authz.UnauthorizedException:
  Subject [system] is not authorized to create destination: topic://ActiveMQ.Advisory.Connection

and the OpenWire connector never becomes usable, which in the Docker image
leaves the healthcheck (/dev/tcp/localhost/61616) failing and the container
unhealthy.

Root cause

The intent is to grant five separate permissions. Every other realm in the
same package grants permissions one per addStringPermission call — the
singular method is only ever correct for a single permission string:

• GossLDAPRealm — addStringPermission("queue:*"), addStringPermission("temp-queue:*"), addStringPermission("topic:*") (three separate calls)
• UnauthTokenBasedRealm — one addStringPermission(...) per concrete permission
• GossAuthorizingRealm — uses the plural addStringPermissions(Collection<String>) with a collection of role permissions

Only SystemBasedRealm collapses the whole list into one string and hands it to
the singular method.

There is a second, related consequence: the same malformed single-string blob
was also stored in userPermissions:

Set<String> perms = new HashSet<>();
perms.add(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS);          // set contains ONE element: the whole joined string
userPermissions.put(managerUser, perms);

so getPermissions("system") (part of the GossRealm/PermissionAdapter
contract) returns a set with a single malformed entry rather than the five
intended permissions.

Fix

Split the constant on , into individual permission strings and grant them with
the plural addStringPermissions(Collection<String>). Store the same split
set in userPermissions so getPermissions() is also correct:

Set<String> perms = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS.split(",")));

SimpleAccount account = new SimpleAccount(managerUser, managerPassword, getName());
account.addStringPermissions(perms);

userMap.put(managerUser, account);
userPermissions.put(managerUser, perms);

(Add import java.util.Arrays;.)

This makes SystemBasedRealm consistent with GossAuthorizingRealm, which
already uses addStringPermissions(Collection<String>).

Diff

+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ loadSystemAccount()
-        SimpleAccount account = new SimpleAccount(managerUser, managerPassword, getName());
-        account.addStringPermission(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS);
-
-        Set<String> perms = new HashSet<>();
-        perms.add(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS);
+        Set<String> perms = new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(SYSTEM_PERMISSIONS.split(",")));
+
+        SimpleAccount account = new SimpleAccount(managerUser, managerPassword, getName());
+        account.addStringPermissions(perms);

Reproduction

1. Build the GridAPPS-D image using GOSS core 16.0.1
   (pnnl.goss.core.security-system-16.0.1.jar).
2. Start the container and run ./run-gridappsd.sh.
3. Observe the broker log:
   Subject [system] is not authorized to create destination: topic://ActiveMQ.Advisory.Connection.
4. Observe that TCP port 61616 never becomes usable and the Docker healthcheck
   reports unhealthy.

Verification of the fix

After rebuilding the security-system bundle with the fix and deploying it in
place of 16.0.1:

• SystemBasedRealm loaded the system account for manager user 'system' on
  activation (permissions now split correctly).
• Zero Subject [system] is not authorized ... errors on a clean startup.
• OpenWire port 61616 (and STOMP 61613) open and stay open.
• The Docker container healthcheck transitions to healthy.
• GridAPPS-D manager components (LogManagerImpl, RoleManagerImpl,
  AppManagerImpl, SimulationManagerImpl, ConfigurationManagerImpl,
  TestManagerImpl) register and log as system.

Scope note (not part of this bug)

A separate set of Subject [app_user] is not authorized to create destination: topic://ActiveMQ.Advisory.Topic warnings remain for the app_user STOMP
client. app_user is served by a different realm (property-file / JWT), not by
SystemBasedRealm, and these warnings are non-fatal — the broker stays up
and the healthcheck stays healthy. They are unrelated to the
SystemBasedRealm fix above and, if undesired, should be tracked separately.