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Docs describing a manual for fixing problem, that will be fixed in upstream in #351

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  • Documentation
    • Updated the privilege-escalation prevention guide to focus exclusively on Authorino resources.
    • Clarified restrictions on cluster-wide permissions, image values and protected specification fields.
    • Refined verification examples and standardised authorised and unauthorised subject placeholders.
    • Removed outdated AuthConfig policies, role bindings and related verification guidance.
    • Corrected a typo and improved terminology for consistency.

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Updated the privilege escalation guide to cover only Authorino resources. The guide retains two ClusterRoles, one admission policy, and verification examples for restricted fields and namespace-scoped access.

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Privilege escalation prevention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cluster permissions and bindings
docs/user-guides/preventing-privilege-escalation.md
Retains two Authorino ClusterRoles and their operator and user ServiceAccount bindings.
Permission-gated admission policy
docs/user-guides/preventing-privilege-escalation.md
Retains the authorino-restrict-spec-fields policy for non-empty spec.image and spec.clusterWide: true.
Verification examples
docs/user-guides/preventing-privilege-escalation.md
Updates denied and allowed Authorino examples, resource names, subject placeholders, update checks, and namespace-scoped RoleBinding verification.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 52e1f

The guide may cause users to misunderstand which RBAC resources are created or which subjects receive access. The PR is otherwise mergeable, with explicit owner follow-up needed to correct these documentation inconsistencies.

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A rabbit reads the roles with care,
Authorino rules now fill the air.
One policy checks each field in sight,
Examples show what’s wrong and right.
Clear bindings keep permissions fair.

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- Around line 210-212: Add the text language identifier to the fenced code block
containing the ValidatingAdmissionPolicy denial message, changing the opening
fence to use text while preserving the block’s content.
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Only a few nits now, but looking great!

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In `@docs/user-guides/preventing-privilege-escalation.md`:
- Around line 22-23: Update the privilege-escalation documentation table and
related warning text to match the wantsImage enforcement behavior: require
set-image only when spec.image is present and non-empty, and instruct users to
remove spec.image or set it to an empty string rather than false. Apply the same
wording consistently at the additional referenced sections.
- Around line 90-107: Update the “Grant the access to the restricted fields”
documentation to align its stated scope with the examples: either add a
RoleBinding subject example using kind User, or revise the introductory text to
say the provided templates cover ServiceAccounts only.
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49-82: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove metadata.namespace from the ClusterRole objects.

ClusterRole is cluster-scoped, so these fields do not scope the objects and can mislead readers. Rename “Create the Roles” to “Create the ClusterRoles”. Keep namespace values on namespaced bindings.

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Remove metadata.namespace from every ClusterRole manifest in the
privilege-escalation guide, including the authorino-set-cluster-wide,
authorino-set-image, authorino-set-apikey-all-namespaces, and
authorino-set-x509-all-namespaces objects. Rename the “Create the Roles” heading
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- Around line 93-121: Update both ClusterRoleBinding subjects in the documented
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deployment value is authorino-operator. Keep the operator namespace placeholder
and both role bindings unchanged.
- Around line 128-154: Update the ClusterRoleBinding examples to use the
operator-generated names: reference the ServiceAccount as
<authorino-cr>-authorino and set each ClusterRoleBinding metadata.name to
<authorino-namespace>.<authorino-cr>-<suffix>, matching the corresponding role
binding. Keep the roleRef names unchanged.

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in the privilege-escalation guide, including the authorino-set-cluster-wide,
authorino-set-image, authorino-set-apikey-all-namespaces, and
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```sh
# Authorino with clusterWide: true — should be DENIED
kubectl apply -f - <<'EOF'

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kubectl apply -f - <<'EOF'
kubectl apply --as=<unauthorized-subject> -f - <<'EOF'


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# AuthConfig with allNamespaces: true — should be DENIED
kubectl apply -f - <<'EOF'

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kubectl apply -f - <<'EOF'
kubectl apply --as=<unauthorized-subject> -f - <<'EOF'


```sh
# Authorino with clusterWide: true, as a subject granted 'set-cluster-wide' — should be ALLOWED
kubectl apply --as=<permitted-subject> -f - <<'EOF'

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nit: for consistency with my previous suggestion only.

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kubectl apply --as=<permitted-subject> -f - <<'EOF'
kubectl apply --as=<authorized-subject> -f - <<'EOF'

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- Line 42: Update the RBAC terminology in the guide: replace the ambiguous
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RoleBinding, and ClusterRoleBinding as applicable. Preserve the procedure and
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@guicassolato I squashed all commits into one, since it was just fixing comments and some of them were not signed off

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I think we should add supersedingHostSubsets: true to the scope here. It's another "dangerous value" that we should recommend reserving to privileged users only.

Please feel free to include in this PR for leave it for a separate one.

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