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@ywangd ywangd commented Feb 28, 2022

API Key can run-as since #79809. There are places in the code where we
assume API key cannot run-as. Most of them are corrected in #81564.
But there are still a few things got missed. This PR fixes the methods
for checking owner user realm for API key.

This means, when API Keys "running-as" (impersonating other users),
we do not expose the authenticating key ID and name to the end-user
such as the Authenticate API and the SetSecurityUseringest processor.
Only the effective user is revealed, just like in the regular case of a realm
user run as. For audit logging, the key's ID and name are not exposed
either. But this is mainly because there are no existing fields suitable for
these information. We do intend to add them later (#84394) because
auditing logging is to consumed by system admin instead of end-users.

Note the resource sharing check (canAccessResourcesOf) also needs to be
fixed, this will be handled by #84277

API Key can run-as since elastic#79809. There are places in the code where we
assume API key cannot run-as. Most of them are corrected in elastic#81564.
But there are still a few things got missed. This PR fixes the methods
for checking owner user realm for API key.

This means, when API Keys "running-as" (impersonating other users),
we do not expose the authenticating key ID and name to the end-user
such as the Authenticate API and the SetSecurityUseringest processor.
Only the effective user is revealed, just like in the regular case of a realm
user run as. For audit logging, the key's ID and name are not exposed
either. But this is mainly because there are no existing fields suitable for
these information. We do intend to add them later (elastic#84394) because
auditing logging is to consumed by system admin instead of end-users.

Note the resource sharing check (canAccessResourcesOf) also needs to be
fixed, this will be handled by elastic#84277
@ywangd ywangd added backport v8.1.0 auto-merge-without-approval Automatically merge pull request when CI checks pass (NB doesn't wait for reviews!) labels Feb 28, 2022
@elasticsearchmachine elasticsearchmachine merged commit 4505442 into elastic:8.1 Feb 28, 2022
@ywangd ywangd deleted the more-api-key-run-assumption-8.1 branch February 28, 2022 07:01
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