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Setting up and using ACLs

By Kong Inc.

Setting up and using ACLs

Prerequisites

Associate consumers with an ACL

After you have added an authentication plugin to a Service or a Route, and you have created your consumers, you can now associate a group to a consumer using the following request:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8001/consumers/{CONSUMER}/acls \
    --data "group=group1" \
    --data "tags[]=tag1" \
    --data "tags[]=tag2"

CONSUMER: The username property of the consumer entity to associate the credentials with.

form parameter default description
group   The arbitrary group name to associate with the consumer.
tags   Optional descriptor tags for the group.

You can create ACL objects via the acls entry in the declarative configuration file:

acls:
- consumer: {CONSUMER}
  group: group1
  tags: { tag1 }
  • CONSUMER: The id or username property of the Consumer entity to associate the credentials to.
  • group: The arbitrary group name to associate to the Consumer.
  • tags: Optional descriptor tags for the group.

You can have more than one group associated to a consumer.

Upstream headers

When a consumer has been validated, the plugin appends a X-Consumer-Groups header to the request before proxying it to the Upstream service, so that you can identify the groups associated with the consumer. The value of the header is a comma-separated list of groups that belong to the consumer, like admin, pro_user.

This header will not be injected in the request to the upstream service if the hide_groups_header config flag is set to true.

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