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Access control

There are a number of concepts that are currently loosely related to access control.

1. Authorizations
2. Sessions
3. User Resource Mapping

The way that a request is currently authorized takes place in one of two ways

Case 1. a token (part of an authorization) is provided

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Authorization

There are primarily two classes of actions that need to be authorized

1. Performing an action against a specific resource
2. Retrieving all resources subject is authorized to access

Definitions

• subject - entity performing the action (org, user, or token)

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Add support for storing generic non time series data

InfluxDB is great at storing and working with time series data, however that data is often useless without some additional non time series data.

Take Chronograf as an example. Without the ability to store dashboards, Chronograf would be nothing more than a visual query builder. The rich experience that Chronograf provides is only possible since can store some amount of non time series data.

I propose that we allow users to store Tables of non time series data. This would truly

desa

Access control

There are a number of concepts that are currently loosely related to access control.

1. Authorizations
2. Sessions
3. User Resource Mapping

The way that a request is currently authorized takes place in one of two ways

Case 1. a token (part of an authorization) is provided

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"math"
	"time"

	"github.com/influxdata/influxdb/client/v2"
)

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[tsm1] 2016/09/28 15:45:01 compacting level 1 group (0) /Users/michaeldesa/.influxdb/data/stress/autogen/2/000000007-000000001.tsm (#1)
unexpected fault address 0x811b009
fatal error: fault
[signal SIGBUS: bus error code=0x2 addr=0x811b009 pc=0x41def2]

goroutine 781 [running]:
runtime.throw(0x67056a, 0x5)
	/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.7.1/libexec/src/runtime/panic.go:566 +0x95 fp=0xc42042d360 sp=0xc42042d340
runtime.sigpanic()
	/usr/local/Cellar/go/1.7.1/libexec/src/runtime/sigpanic_unix.go:21 +0x1d0 fp=0xc42042d3b8 sp=0xc42042d360

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[query] 2016/03/09 22:44:53 SELECT count("*") * "*" FROM stress."default".cpu
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xb code=0x1 addr=0x20 pc=0x6eb986]

goroutine 115 [running]:
github.com/influxdata/influxdb/influxql.Iterators.Close(0xc20933ac40, 0x1, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
	/tmp/influxdb/src/github.com/influxdata/influxdb/influxql/iterator.go:39 +0x96
github.com/influxdata/influxdb/influxql.(*Emitter).Close(0xc208170e00, 0x0, 0x0)
	/tmp/influxdb/src/github.com/influxdata/influxdb/influxql/emitter.go:38 +0x4d
github.com/influxdata/influxdb/cluster.(*QueryExecutor).executeSelectStatement(0xc20805a6c0, 0xc20b8a2820, 0x2710, 0x0, 0xc20b096180, 0xc20b096120, 0x0, 0x0)

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a

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[tsm1] 2015/10/02 21:48:28 writing new index file /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1/0000001.tsm1
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:48:28 /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 flush to index took 3.725643ms
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:49:28 idle flush of /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 with 27 keys and 162 total values of 2592 bytes
[tsm1] 2015/10/02 21:49:28 writing new index file /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1/0000002.tsm1
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:49:28 /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 flush to index took 2.906997ms
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:50:28 idle flush of /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 with 27 keys and 162 total values of 2592 bytes
[tsm1] 2015/10/02 21:50:28 writing new index file /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1/0000003.tsm1
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:50:28 /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 flush to index took 3.756706ms
[tsm1wal] 2015/10/02 21:51:28 idle flush of /var/opt/influxdb/data/_internal/monitor/1 with 27 keys and 162 total values of 

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channel_buffer_size = 100000

[write]
  concurrency = 10
  batch_size = 10000
  batch_interval = "0s"
  database = "stress"
  precision = "n"
  address = "localhost:8086"
  reset_database = true