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chore(rbac): RBAC --> ABAC (#106)
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Arborist a role-based access control (RBAC) policy engine, designed for use with
Arborist is an attribute-based access control (ABAC) policy engine, designed for use with
the [Gen3 stack](https://gen3.org/). Arborist tracks resources requiring access
control, along with actions which users may perform to operate on these
resources, and roles, which aggregate permissions to perform one or more
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info:
title: Arborist
version: 1.1.1
description: authorization microservice to handle RBAC based on configured policies
description: authorization microservice to handle ABAC based on configured policies
license:
name: 'Apache 2.0'
url: 'https://github.com/uc-cdis/arborist'
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information about the user's specific request. The terminology used to
describe user requests is flexible and arborist does not "nail it down";
however our usage so far is to use the permission model to capture the
basic set of operations one might expect in RBAC (read/write, etc.)
basic set of operations one might expect in ABAC (read/write, etc.)
combined with the client service, and the path for the resource the user
is trying to access. If the given JWT has `azp` field, the permission of
the corresponding client will be also checked; only when both the user
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