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New documentation: https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html#restricting-the-actions-that-a-token-can-perform

Decided to do the /-/create-token UI in a separate ticket: - #1947

For the tests for datasette create-token it would be useful if datasette --get had a mechanism for sending an Authorization: Bearer X header.

I'm going to move this code into datasette/cli.py - it's a bit unexpected having it live in default_permissions.py like this (I couldn't find the code when I went looking for it earlier).

Help looks like this:

``` Usage: datasette create-token [OPTIONS] ID

Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID

Example:

  datasette create-token root --secret mysecret

To only allow create-table:

  datasette create-token root --secret mysecret \
      --all create-table

Or to only allow insert-row against a specific table:

  datasette create-token root --secret myscret \
      --resource mydb mytable insert-row

Restricted actions can be specified multiple times using multiple --all, --database, and --resource options.

Add --debug to see a decoded version of the token.

Options: --secret TEXT Secret used for signing the API tokens [required] -e, --expires-after INTEGER Token should expire after this many seconds -a, --all ACTION Restrict token to this action -d, --database DB ACTION Restrict token to this action on this database -r, --resource DB RESOURCE ACTION Restrict token to this action on this database resource (a table, SQL view or named query) --debug Show decoded token --plugins-dir DIRECTORY Path to directory containing custom plugins --help Show this message and exit. ```

I just noticed this in the existing code:

https://github.com/simonw/datasette/blob/c5d30b58a1cd1c66bbddcf3561db005543ecaf25/datasette/default_permissions.py#L195-L203

Hard-coding those action names should not be necessary any more, especially now we have datasette.permissions for looking up metadata about the permissions.

Initial prototype of the create-token command changes:

diff diff --git a/datasette/default_permissions.py b/datasette/default_permissions.py index 406dae40..bbe1247e 100644 --- a/datasette/default_permissions.py +++ b/datasette/default_permissions.py @@ -278,17 +278,55 @@ def register_commands(cli): help="Token should expire after this many seconds", type=int, ) + @click.option( + "alls", + "-a", + "--all", + type=str, + multiple=True, + help="Restrict token to this permission", + ) + @click.option( + "databases", + "-d", + "--database", + type=(str, str), + multiple=True, + help="Restrict token to this permission on this database", + ) + @click.option( + "resources", + "-r", + "--resource", + type=(str, str, str), + multiple=True, + help="Restrict token to this permission on this database resource (a table, SQL view or named query)", + ) @click.option( "--debug", help="Show decoded token", is_flag=True, ) - def create_token(id, secret, expires_after, debug): + def create_token(id, secret, expires_after, alls, databases, resources, debug): "Create a signed API token for the specified actor ID" ds = Datasette(secret=secret) bits = {"a": id, "token": "dstok", "t": int(time.time())} if expires_after: bits["d"] = expires_after + if alls or databases or resources: + bits["_r"] = {} + if alls: + bits["_r"]["a"] = list(alls) + if databases: + bits["_r"]["d"] = {} + for database, action in databases: + bits["_r"]["d"].setdefault(database, []).append(action) + if resources: + bits["_r"]["r"] = {} + for database, table, action in resources: + bits["_r"]["r"].setdefault(database, {}).setdefault( + table, [] + ).append(action) token = ds.sign(bits, namespace="token") click.echo("dstok_{}".format(token)) if debug: Still needs tests, plus I'd like it to use abbreviations if available to keep the token length shorter.

I'm going to rename "t" in the magic format to "r" for resource.

I was going to have the CLI command throw an error if you attempt to use a permission that isn't registered with Datasette, but then I remembered that one of the uses for the CLI tool is to create signed tokens that will work against other Datasette instances (via the --secret option) that might have different plugins installed that register different permission names.

So I might have it output warnings instead.

The hardest piece here is the UI. I'm going to implement the CLI command first.