CLI that scans repositories and generates the necessary IAM Permissions for the service to run.
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Installation

npm install -g @slauth.io/slauth

Usage

1. Set the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable: export OPENAI_API_KEY=<key>
2. Run slauth --help to see available commands

Commands

Scan

The scan command will look for any calls of your Cloud Provider sdk in your git repository and generate the necessary permissions for it.

slauth scan -p aws ../path/to/my/repository

Note: By default the scan command will print the result to stdout. Use -o,--output-file option to specify a file to output to.

Result:

The result of the scan command is an array of IAM Permissions.

Note: For aws cloud provider, if the resource is not explicit in the code (e.g. comes from a variable), we use a placholder for it. Before deploying the policies, you will have to manually change these placeholders with the correct resources the service will try to interact with.

Detected Policies:

[
  {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "S3Policy",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Sid": "S3Permissions",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "s3:PutObject",
          "s3:GetBucketAcl"
        ],
        "Resource": [
          "<S3_BUCKET_PLACEHOLDER>",
          "<S3_BUCKET_1_PLACEHOLDER>",
          "arn:aws:s3:::my_bucket_2/*"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "DynamoDBPolicy",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Sid": "DynamoDBPermissions",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "dynamodb:PutItem"
        ],
        "Resource": [
          "<DYNAMODB_TABLE_PLACEHOLDER>"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Id": "SQSPolicy",
    "Statement": [
      {
        "Sid": "SQSPermissions",
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
          "sqs:SendMessage"
        ],
        "Resource": [
          "<SQS_QUEUE_URL_PLACEHOLDER>"
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]

Available options

• -p, --cloud-provider <cloudProvider> select the cloud provider you would like to generate policies for (choices: "aws", "gcp")
• -m, --openai-model <openaiModel> select the openai model to use (choices: "gpt-3.5-turbo-16k", "gpt-4-32k")
• -o, --output-file <outputFile> write generated policies to a file instead of stdout

Selecting which OpenAI Model to use

By default slauth will use gpt-4-32k as it provides the best results. You can still choose to use other models to scan you repo, specially if cost is a concern:

To choose a different model, use the -m option of the scan command

slauth scan -p aws -m gpt-3.5-turbo-16k ./path/to/my/repository

Available models:

• gpt-3.5-turbo-16k (results with this model might be incomplete)
• gpt-4-32k (default)

Example repos to test with

In case you want to give the CLI a quick test you can fork the following repositories.

• aws-sdk: https://github.com/slauth-io/aws-sdk-tester
• google-cloud sdk: https://github.com/slauth-io/gcp-sdk-tester

Running in CI/CD

Slauth being a CLI, it can be easily integrated in your CI/CD pipelines.

Github Action Example

In this GitHub action workflow we install Slauth, run it and then output the result to an artifact which can then be downloaded so it can be used in your IaC.

name: scan
on:
  push:

permissions:
  contents: read

jobs:
  release:
    name: policy-scan
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 'lts/*'
      - name: Install Slauth
        run: npm install -g @slauth.io/slauth
      - name: Run Slauth
        env:
          OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }}
        run: slauth scan -p aws -o ./policies.json .
      - name: Upload Artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: policies
          path: policies.json

Development

1. Set your OPENAI_API_KEY in the .env file at the root of the project
2. Run npm i
3. Install the slauth CLI globally: npm install -g .
4. Compile tsc on file change: npm run build-watch
5. Test it, slauth -h should work