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Switch to a new role-based authorization framework, removing is_admin() We began moving away from simple "is this user an admin?" permission checks before 0.12, with the introduction of mod_authz_internal and the ability to dynamically change the roles of individual users. The approach in 0.12 still had various limitations however, and apart from the introduction of roles other than "admin" and the ability to pull that info from storage, not much actually changed. This new framework shakes things up a lot, though aims to maintain the same functionality and behaviour on the surface for a default Prosody configuration. That is, if you don't take advantage of any of the new features, you shouldn't notice any change. The biggest change visible to developers is that usermanager.is_admin() (and the auth provider is_admin() method) have been removed. Gone. Completely. Permission checks should now be performed using a new module API method: module:may(action_name, context) This method accepts an action name, followed by either a JID (string) or (preferably) a table containing 'origin'/'session' and 'stanza' fields (e.g. the standard object passed to most events). It will return true if the action should be permitted, or false/nil otherwise. Modules should no longer perform permission checks based on the role name. E.g. a lot of code previously checked if the user's role was prosody:admin before permitting some action. Since many roles might now exist with similar permissions, and the permissions of prosody:admin may be redefined dynamically, it is no longer suitable to use this method for permission checks. Use module:may(). If you start an action name with ':' (recommended) then the current module's name will automatically be used as a prefix. To define a new permission, use the new module API: module:default_permission(role_name, action_name) module:default_permissions(role_name, { action_name[, action_name...] }) This grants the specified role permission to execute the named action(s) by default. This may be overridden via other mechanisms external to your module. The built-in roles that developers should use are: - prosody:user (normal user) - prosody:admin (host admin) - prosody:operator (global admin) The new prosody:operator role is intended for server-wide actions (such as shutting down Prosody). Finally, all usage of is_admin() in modules has been fixed by this commit. Some of these changes were trickier than others, but no change is expected to break existing deployments. EXCEPT: mod_auth_ldap no longer supports the ldap_admin_filter option. It's very possible nobody is using this, but if someone is then we can later update it to pull roles from LDAP somehow.

--- a/plugins/muc/mod_muc.lua	Wed Jun 15 11:47:39 2022 +0100
+++ b/plugins/muc/mod_muc.lua	Wed Jun 15 12:15:01 2022 +0100
@@ -100,7 +100,6 @@
 local jid_bare = require "util.jid".bare;
 local st = require "util.stanza";
 local cache = require "util.cache";
-local um_is_admin = require "core.usermanager".is_admin;
 
 module:require "muc/config_form_sections";
 
@@ -111,21 +110,23 @@
 module:require "muc/hats";
 module:require "muc/lock";
 
-local function is_admin(jid)
-	return um_is_admin(jid, module.host);
-end
+module:default_permissions("prosody:admin", {
+	":automatic-ownership";
+	":create-room";
+	":recreate-destroyed-room";
+});
 
 if module:get_option_boolean("component_admins_as_room_owners", true) then
 	-- Monkey patch to make server admins room owners
 	local _get_affiliation = room_mt.get_affiliation;
 	function room_mt:get_affiliation(jid)
-		if is_admin(jid) then return "owner"; end
+		if module:may(":automatic-ownership", jid) then return "owner"; end
 		return _get_affiliation(self, jid);
 	end
 
 	local _set_affiliation = room_mt.set_affiliation;
 	function room_mt:set_affiliation(actor, jid, affiliation, reason, data)
-		if affiliation ~= "owner" and is_admin(jid) then return nil, "modify", "not-acceptable"; end
+		if affiliation ~= "owner" and module:may(":automatic-ownership", jid) then return nil, "modify", "not-acceptable"; end
 		return _set_affiliation(self, actor, jid, affiliation, reason, data);
 	end
 end
@@ -412,6 +413,8 @@
 	end, -10);
 end
 
+module:default_permission("prosody:admin", ":create-room");
+
 do
 	local restrict_room_creation = module:get_option("restrict_room_creation");
 	if restrict_room_creation == true then
@@ -422,7 +425,7 @@
 		module:hook("muc-room-pre-create", function(event)
 			local origin, stanza = event.origin, event.stanza;
 			local user_jid = stanza.attr.from;
-			if not is_admin(user_jid) and not (
+			if not module:may(":create-room", event) and not (
 				restrict_room_creation == "local" and
 				select(2, jid_split(user_jid)) == host_suffix
 			) then
@@ -465,7 +468,7 @@
 
 		if room and room._data.destroyed then
 			if room._data.locked < os.time()
-			or (is_admin(stanza.attr.from) and stanza.name == "presence" and stanza.attr.type == nil) then
+			or (module:may(":recreate-destroyed-room", event) and stanza.name == "presence" and stanza.attr.type == nil) then
 				-- Allow the room to be recreated by admin or after time has passed
 				delete_room(room);
 				room = nil;