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Note: PyCasbin-on-CPP is available to use. Refer to thedocumentation for installation and usage.

1. ACL (Access Control List)
2. ACL withsuperuser
3. ACL without users: especially useful for systems that don't have authentication or user log-ins.
4. ACL without resources: some scenarios may target for a type of resources instead of an individual resource by using permissions likewrite-article,read-log. It doesn't control the access to a specific article or log.
5. RBAC (Role-Based Access Control)
6. RBAC with resource roles: both users and resources can have roles (or groups) at the same time.
7. RBAC with domains/tenants: users can have different role sets for different domains/tenants.
8. ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control): syntax sugar likeresource.Owner can be used to get the attribute for a resource.
9. RESTful: supports paths like/res/*,/res/:id and HTTP methods likeGET,POST,PUT,DELETE.
10. Deny-override: both allow and deny authorizations are supported, deny overrides the allow.
11. Priority: the policy rules can be prioritized like firewall rules.

In Casbin, an access control model is abstracted into a CONF file based on thePERM metamodel (Policy, Effect, Request, Matchers). So switching or upgrading the authorization mechanism for a project is just as simple as modifying a configuration. You can customize your own access control model by combining the available models. For example, you can get RBAC roles and ABAC attributes together inside one model and share one set of policy rules.

The most basic and simplest model in Casbin is ACL. ACL's model CONF is:

# Request definition[request_definition]r = sub, obj, act# Policy definition[policy_definition]p = sub, obj, act# Policy effect[policy_effect]e = some(where (p.eft == allow))# Matchers[matchers]m =r.sub == p.sub &&r.obj == p.obj &&r.act == p.act

An example policy for ACL model is like:

p, alice, data1, readp, bob, data2, write

It means:

• alice can read data1
• bob can write data2

What Casbin does:

1. enforce the policy in the classic{subject, object, action} form or a customized form as you defined, both allow and deny authorizations are supported.
2. handle the storage of the access control model and its policy.
3. manage the role-user mappings and role-role mappings (aka role hierarchy in RBAC).
4. support built-in superuser likeroot oradministrator. A superuser can do anything without explict permissions.
5. multiple built-in operators to support the rule matching. For example,keyMatch can map a resource key/foo/bar to the pattern/foo*.

What Casbin does NOT do:

1. authentication (aka verifyusername andpassword when a user logs in)
2. manage the list of users or roles. I believe it's more convenient for the project itself to manage these entities. Users usually have their passwords, and Casbin is not designed as a password container. However, Casbin stores the user-role mapping for the RBAC scenario.

https://casbin.org/docs/overview

You can also use the online editor (https://casbin.org/editor/) to write your Casbin model and policy in your web browser. It provides functionality such assyntax highlighting andcode completion, just like an IDE for a programming language.

https://casbin.org/docs/tutorials

Here is aworking project to demonstarte how to set upyour CMake configurations to integrate casbin without any prior installations.

You may integrate casbin into your CMake project throughfind_package.It is assumed that you're using CMake >= v3.19.

You must have casbin installed on your system OR have it fetched from GitHub throughFetchContent.

Here's what your Findcasbin.cmake file should be:

include(FetchContent)FetchContent_Declare(        casbin        GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/casbin/casbin-cpp.git        GIT_TAG v1.38.1)set(CASBIN_BUILD_TESTOFF)# If you don't need to build tests for casbinset(CASBIN_BUILD_BENCHMARKOFF)# If you don't need to build benchmarks for casbinset(CASBIN_BUILD_BINDINGSOFF)# If you don't need language bindings provided by casbinset(CASBIN_BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGSOFF)# If you don't need python bindings provided by casbin# Making casbin and its targets accessible to our projectFetchContent_MakeAvailable(casbin)FetchContent_GetProperties(casbin)# If casbin wasn't populated, then manually populate itif(NOT casbin_POPULATED)    FetchContent_Populate(casbin)    add_subdirectory(${casbin_SOURCE_DIR}${casbin_BINARY_DIR})endif()

Now that casbin's targets are available to your project,your may link your own targets against casbin's likewise:

add_executable(myexec main.cpp)target_link_libraries(myexecPRIVATE casbin)set(myexec_INCLUDE_DIR${casbin_SOURCE_DIR}/include)target_include_directories(myexecPRIVATE${myexec_INCLUDE_DIR})

Do remember to includecasbin_SOURCE_DIR/include directory wherever casbin's functions are utilised.

You may integrate casbin into your CMake project throughfind_package.It is assumed that you're using CMake >= v3.19

1. Clone/checkout tocasbin/casbin-cpp:master

   git clone https://github.com/casbin/casbin-cpp.git

2. Open terminal/cmd in the root directory of the project:

   mkdir buildcd buildcmake ..

   Note: Look up for the logs of this step. And add the path indicated by the log into your PATH/project include directory.The log message you're looking for should be something like this:

   [casbin]: Installing casbin ...[casbin]: Installing casbin ... -  The targets can now be imported with find_package(casbin)[casbin]: Build the"install" target and add"/usr/local/include" to you PATHfor casbin to work

3. After the project is configured successfully, build it:

   cmake --build. --config Release

4. Install casbin:

   cmake --build. --config Release --target install

   Now, casbin has been installed and ready to go.

5. In your project's CMake file, add

   find_package(casbin REQUIRED)

   This will import all the targets exported by casbin to your project

6. Link against casbin (Refer to Step 2'sNote to get the value ofMY_INCLUDE_DIR for your system):

   set(MY_INCLUDE_DIR"/usr/local/include")target_include_directories(MyTargetNamePRIVATE${MY_INCLUDE_DIR})target_link_libraries(MyTargetNamePRIVATE casbin::casbin)

(Assuming you have CMake v3.19 or later installed)

1. Clone/checkout tocasbin/casbin-cpp:master

   git clone https://github.com/casbin/casbin-cpp.git

2. Open terminal/cmd in the root directory of the project:

   Note: On Windows, this command will also create Visual Studio project files in the/build directory.

   mkdir buildcd buildcmake ..

3. After the project is configured successfully, build it:

   cmake --build.

4. To install casbin library to your machine run:

   cmake --build. --target install

   • ForWindows, this will installcasbin.lib to<custom-path>/casbin-cpp/build/casbinand the headers toC:/Program Files/casbin/include.
   • For Unix based OS i.e.Linux and macOS, this will installcasbin.a to<custom-path>/casbin-cpp/build/casbinand the headers tousr/local/include.

   You can add the respective include and lib pathsto the PATH environment variable to use casbin.

5. (OPTIONAL) To run the tests, issue the following command from/build:

   ctest

1. Add the include directory of the project to the PATH Environment variable.

   #include<casbin/casbin.h>

2. Make a new acasbin::Enforcer with a model file and a policy file:

   casbin::Enforcere("./path/to/model.conf","./path/to/policy.csv");

3. Add an enforcement hook into your code right before the access happens:

   std::string sub ="alice";// the user that wants to access a resource.std::string obj ="data1";// the resource that is going to be accessed.std::string act ="read";// the operation that the user performs on the resource.if(e.Enforce({ sub, obj, act })) {// permit alice to read data1}else {// deny the request, show an error}

4. Besides the static policy file, Casbin also provides API for permission management at run-time. For example, You can get all the roles assigned to a user as below:

   std::vector<std::string>roles( e.GetImplicitRolesForUser(sub) );

Here's the summary:

#include<casbin/casbin.h>#include<string>voidIsAuthorized() {    casbin::Enforcere("./path/to/model.conf","./path/to/policy.csv");    std::string sub ="alice";// the user that wants to access a resource.    std::string obj ="data1";// the resource that is going to be accessed.    std::string act ="read";// the operation that the user performs on the resource.if(e.Enforce({ sub, obj, act })) {// permit alice to read data1    }else {// deny the request, show an error    }}

Casbin provides two sets of APIs to manage permissions:

• Management API: the primitive API that provides full support for Casbin policy management.
• RBAC API: a more friendly API for RBAC. This API is a subset of Management API. The RBAC users could use this API to simplify the code.

We also provide aweb-based UI for model management and policy management:

https://casbin.org/docs/adapters

https://casbin.org/docs/watchers

https://casbin.org/docs/role-managers

Authz middlewares for web frameworks:https://casbin.org/docs/middlewares

https://casbin.org/docs/adopters

Please read thecontributing guide.

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