Role-Based delegation with negative authorization

  • Authors:
  • Hua Wang;Jinli Cao;David Ross

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Maths & Computing, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia;Department of Computer Science & Computer Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia;Engineering Faculty, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Role-based delegation model (RBDM) based on role-based access control (RBAC) has proven to be a flexible and useful access control model for information sharing on distributed collaborative environment. Authorization is an important functionality for RBDM in distributed environment where a conflicting problem may arise when one user grants permission of a role to a delegated user and another user grants the negative permission to the delegated user. This paper aims to analyse role-based group delegation features that has not studied before, and to provide an approach for the conflicting problem by adopting negative authorization. We present granting and revocation delegating models first, and then discuss user delegation authorization and the impact of negative authorization on role hierarchies.