UAQ: a framework for user authorization query processing in RBAC extended with hybrid hierarchy and constraints

  • Authors:
  • Yue Zhang;James B. D. Joshi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA;University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

A key issue in RBAC systems is how to efficiently handle the user authorization process. That is, whether or not to grant a user's request to acquire a set of requested permissions or to activate a set of requested roles in a single session. The presence of hybrid hierarchies as well as the cardinality and dynamic separation of duty constraints make the issue more complex. In this paper, we define this issue as the user authorization query problem consisting of a role mapping problem and an activation checking problem. We also propose a set of algorithms to solve the role mapping and the activation checking problems. We show that our model is practical and flexible, and can deal with various cases in presence of the hybrid hierarchy and cardinality/DSoD constraints.