add options to require an access_token to GET /profile and /publicRooms on CS API (#5083)

This commit adds two config options:

* `restrict_public_rooms_to_local_users`

Requires auth to fetch the public rooms directory through the CS API and disables fetching it through the federation API.

* `require_auth_for_profile_requests`

When set to `true`, requires that requests to `/profile` over the CS API are authenticated, and only returns the user's profile if the requester shares a room with the profile's owner, as per MSC1301.

MSC1301 also specifies a behaviour for federation (only returning the profile if the server asking for it shares a room with the profile's owner), but that's currently really non-trivial to do in a not too expensive way. Next step is writing down a MSC that allows a HS to specify which user sent the profile query. In this implementation, Synapse won't send a profile query over federation if it doesn't believe it already shares a room with the profile's owner, though.

Groups have been intentionally omitted from this commit.

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/config/server.py b/synapse/config/server.py
index 147a976485..8dce75c56a 100644
--- a/synapse/config/server.py
+++ b/synapse/config/server.py
@@ -72,6 +72,19 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         # master, potentially causing inconsistency.
         self.enable_media_repo = config.get("enable_media_repo", True)
 
+        # Whether to require authentication to retrieve profile data (avatars,
+        # display names) of other users through the client API.
+        self.require_auth_for_profile_requests = config.get(
+            "require_auth_for_profile_requests", False,
+        )
+
+        # If set to 'True', requires authentication to access the server's
+        # public rooms directory through the client API, and forbids any other
+        # homeserver to fetch it via federation.
+        self.restrict_public_rooms_to_local_users = config.get(
+            "restrict_public_rooms_to_local_users", False,
+        )
+
         # whether to enable search. If disabled, new entries will not be inserted
         # into the search tables and they will not be indexed. Users will receive
         # errors when attempting to search for messages.
@@ -327,6 +340,20 @@ class ServerConfig(Config):
         #
         #use_presence: false
 
+        # Whether to require authentication to retrieve profile data (avatars,
+        # display names) of other users through the client API. Defaults to
+        # 'false'. Note that profile data is also available via the federation
+        # API, so this setting is of limited value if federation is enabled on
+        # the server.
+        #
+        #require_auth_for_profile_requests: true
+
+        # If set to 'true', requires authentication to access the server's
+        # public rooms directory through the client API, and forbids any other
+        # homeserver to fetch it via federation. Defaults to 'false'.
+        #
+        #restrict_public_rooms_to_local_users: true
+
         # The GC threshold parameters to pass to `gc.set_threshold`, if defined
         #
         #gc_thresholds: [700, 10, 10]