PR #9442 made the filer refuse to register the IAM gRPC service unless
jwt.filer_signing.key was set in security.toml, which broke the admin
UI Users/Groups/Policies pages for every deployment that ships without
a security.toml — weed mini, plain Helm, vanilla weed filer. The Users
tab returns Unimplemented and the page is unusable. Issues #9504,
#9505 and #9509 all trace to this gap.
The rest of the filer's gRPC surface is unauthenticated by default;
treat IAM the same way. The service now always registers, and the
auth gate is a no-op when no signing key is configured. When the key
is set, every RPC still requires an admin-signed Bearer token, matching
the post-#9442 behaviour. Operators who expose the filer gRPC port
beyond a trusted network should set the key on both filer and admin.
The admin client (IamGrpcStore.withIamClient) already skips attaching
the authorization metadata when its key is empty, so no changes there.
Every IAM RPC (CreateUser, PutPolicy, CreateAccessKey, ...) now requires
a Bearer token in the authorization metadata, signed with the filer
write-signing key. The service refuses to register on a filer that has
no jwt.filer_signing.key set, so the unauthenticated default is gone:
operators who use these RPCs must configure the key and attach a token
on every call.
Bearer scheme matching is case-insensitive (RFC 6750), every handler
nil-checks req before dereferencing it, and tests now cover the
expired-token path.
Chris Lu