escalation_check.go

/*
Copyright 2016 The Kubernetes Authors.

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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*/

package rbac

import (
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/api"
	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/auth/user"
)

func EscalationAllowed(ctx api.Context, superUser string) bool {
	u, ok := api.UserFrom(ctx)
	if !ok {
		// the only way to be without a user is to either have no authenticators by explicitly saying that's your preference
		// or to be connecting via the insecure port, in which case this logically doesn't apply
		return true
	}

	// check to see if this subject is allowed to escalate
	if len(superUser) != 0 && u.GetName() == superUser {
		return true
	}
	// system:masters is special because the API server uses it for privileged loopback connections
	// therefore we know that a member of system:masters can always do anything
	for _, group := range u.GetGroups() {
		if group == user.SystemPrivilegedGroup {
			return true
		}
	}

	return false
}