A lightweight approach to specification and analysis of role-based access control extensions

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Schaad;Jonathan D. Moffett

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York, York, United Kingdom;University of York, York, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • SACMAT '02 Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Access control models and technologies
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Role-based access control is a powerful and policy-neutral concept for enforcing access control. Many extensions have been proposed, the most significant of which are the decentralised administration of role-based systems and the enforcement of constraints. However, the simultaneous integration of these extensions can cause conflicts in a later system implementation. We demonstrate how we use the Alloy language for the specification of a conflict-free role-based system. This specification provides us at the same time with a suitable basis for further analysis by the Alloy constraint analyser.