What is ACL in node JS?
Well, if you are looking for a flexible and elegant way to protect specific resources in your application, Node ACL (Access Control List for Node) is a module that can solve your problem, providing a smooth way to create roles and permissions, and assign those roles to specific users.
What is express ACL?
Express Access Control Lists (express-acl) enable you to manage the requests made to your express server. It makes use of ACL rules to protect your sever from unauthorized access. ACLs defines which user groups are granted access and the type of access they have against a specified resource.
Is it possible to write your own ACL-middleware?
Last possibility is write own acl-middleware, it could be interesting experience for me. I suppose 🙂 The most used ACL module. It has Express middleware for protect resources and mongo support too.. acl package has not been updated for the last 2 years.
What is ACL (identity based access control)?
First of all, ACL is not an access control model, but an implementation type. It is often confused with IBAC (Identity Based Access Control) where each individual has their access rights determined separately — based on identity. That sounds very much like the ACL we described earlier.
Why use ACL for user roles?
ACL can solve this problem in a flexible and elegant way. Create roles and assign roles to users. Sometimes it may even be useful to create one role per user, to get the finest granularity possible, while in other situations you will give the asterisk permission for admin kind of functionality.
What is the minimalistic ACL module?
This module provides a minimalistic ACL implementation inspired by Zend_ACL. When you develop a web site or application you will soon notice that sessions are not enough to protect all the available resources. Avoiding that malicious users access other users content proves a much more complicated task than anticipated.