## Summary The [`AdminRoleGuard`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-role.guard.ts) was matching on the literal `'admin'`, but the Entra app registration declares the admin app role with `value: "Portal.Admin"`. End result: an authenticated user with the role assigned in Entra still landed with `roles: []` in their session (claim simply not present in the id token), and every request to `/api/admin/audit` and `/api/admin/users` returned a **403**. Caught manually in the portal-admin SPA: login succeeded, sidebar links to "Audit log" / "User list" returned 403. The [`/api/admin/auth/me`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-auth.controller.ts) self-test confirmed the missing claim was the cause. ## What lands ### Constant value — single source of truth [`apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-role.guard.ts:18`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-role.guard.ts#L18): ```diff -export const ADMIN_ROLE = 'admin'; +export const ADMIN_ROLE = 'Portal.Admin'; ``` [`admin-role.guard.spec.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-role.guard.spec.ts) already imports `ADMIN_ROLE` from the source rather than hardcoding the literal, so the guard contract spec rolls through unchanged. The fixtures elsewhere ([`auth.service.spec.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/auth/auth.service.spec.ts), [`admin.controller.spec.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin.controller.spec.ts), [`admin-auth.controller.spec.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-auth.controller.spec.ts), [`require-mfa.guard.spec.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/auth/require-mfa.guard.spec.ts)) keep `roles: ['admin']` as fixture data — those tests exercise the extraction / serialization pipeline, which is role-value-agnostic; touching them would be incidental cleanup with no behaviour signal. ### Doc-comment refresh Inline references to the role name updated so future readers don't grep `'admin'` and find a phantom value: - [`admin-role.guard.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin-role.guard.ts) — class doc-block (3 mentions). - [`admin.controller.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/admin/admin.controller.ts) — class doc-block + inline guard-contract comment. - [`audit.service.ts`](apps/portal-bff/src/audit/audit.service.ts) — `adminAccessDenied` doc-block (2 mentions). ### Documentation - [`docs/decisions/0020-portal-admin-app.md`](docs/decisions/0020-portal-admin-app.md) — 5 references to the role across §"How is admin access enforced", §"Auth — same Entra ID …", and the Consequences §. - [`docs/architecture.md`](docs/architecture.md) — note next to the C4 container diagram describing the admin entry gate. - [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) — "Admin application" project rule. ## Notes for the reviewer - **Why `Portal.Admin` rather than `admin`?** Operator's call on the Entra side. The `<Application>.<Role>` namespace is the conventional Entra App Role pattern when the directory may host roles for multiple applications, and `admin` alone is ambiguous in a directory shared across products. - **Why no migration / backfill?** The role value lives only in two places: Entra app-registration manifest (operator-managed) and the BFF constant (this PR). Existing Redis sessions captured `roles: []` (claim absent) — they'll naturally pick up the correct value on next sign-in. No persisted data references the old value. - **No ADR.** ADR-0020 §"How is admin access enforced" already commits to "Entra ID role claim + BFF guard"; the literal role string is an implementation detail the ADR happened to spell. Updated the ADR's prose to the new value to keep the doc honest, but the decision is unchanged. ## Test plan - [x] `pnpm nx test portal-bff` — **396 specs pass**, unchanged from `main`. The `AdminRoleGuard` contract spec (covers 401-on-no-session, 403-on-missing-role + audit emission, pass-through-on-role-present) imports `ADMIN_ROLE` and re-exercises with the new value. - [x] `pnpm exec nx affected -t format:check lint test build --base=origin/main` — clean. - [ ] Manual verification — pending Entra-side App Role declaration with `value: "Portal.Admin"` + assignment to the test user. Once both exist: sign out + sign in on portal-admin, hit `/api/admin/auth/me` and confirm `roles: ["Portal.Admin"]`, then click "Audit log" + "User list" and confirm both render. An `admin.access_denied` row in `audit.events` is the negative-test signal (still emitted for any user without the role). --------- Co-authored-by: Julien Gautier <julien.gautier@apf.asso.fr> Reviewed-on: #145
Architectural Decision Records
This project records architecturally-significant decisions as ADRs in the MADR 4.0.0 format. References: adr.github.io.
Why ADRs
ADRs capture the why behind a decision — context, drivers, options considered, trade-offs accepted — at the moment the decision is made. They make architecture reviewable, onboarding faster, and prevent the same debate from being re-litigated later.
Conventions
- Format: MADR 4.0.0. Start from template.md.
- Filename:
NNNN-kebab-case-title.md, e.g.0007-adopt-tailwind-for-design-tokens.md. - Numbering: globally sequential 4-digit prefix. Numbers never reset, never get reused — even when an ADR is superseded or deprecated.
- Layout: flat folder. ADRs are not nested into category subfolders; topical organization happens via tags.
- Tags: every ADR carries a
tags:array in the MADR frontmatter, drawn from the tag vocabulary below. An ADR may carry several tags. Propose new tags (or renames) in the same PR that needs them; never invent ad-hoc tags inline. - Status lifecycle:
proposed→accepted→ optionallydeprecatedorsuperseded by [ADR-NNNN](NNNN-other.md). Update the YAML frontmatter; never delete an ADR. - Index maintenance: every ADR addition or status change must update the Index below in the same commit.
When to write an ADR
Write one whenever a development decision is non-trivial: tool or library choice, framework pattern, security control, perf budget, a11y target, naming convention, deprecation, breaking change, or any choice that future contributors would benefit from understanding the why of.
Tag vocabulary
The vocabulary below is the source of truth. It is intentionally coarse — propose extensions only when an existing tag genuinely doesn't fit, and avoid overly narrow tags.
| Tag | Scope |
|---|---|
frontend |
UI, Angular, components, design system, client-side state |
backend |
API, BFF, server-side services |
security |
AuthN, AuthZ, sessions, CSP, dependency scanning, secret management |
performance |
Perf budgets, caching, bundle size, Lighthouse |
accessibility |
WCAG, a11y testing, keyboard, ARIA, contrast |
infrastructure |
CI/CD, hosting, deployment, runtime |
observability |
Logs, metrics, traces, correlation IDs, monitoring |
data |
Persistence, schemas, migrations, data flow |
process |
Team conventions, workflows, repo policy |
Status: starter vocabulary, to be refined as ADRs accumulate. Update this table whenever a tag is added, renamed, or retired.
Index
ADRs are listed in numerical order. To slice by topic, filter on the Tags column.
| # | Title | Status | Tags | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0001 | Use ADRs to record architectural decisions | accepted | process |
2026-04-29 |
| 0002 | Adopt Nx monorepo with the apps preset |
accepted | infrastructure, frontend, backend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0003 | Workspace and app naming convention | accepted | process |
2026-04-29 |
| 0004 | Frontend stack — Angular (latest LTS), standalone, zoneless, Signals, CSR-only, Vitest | accepted | frontend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0005 | Backend stack — NestJS over Express, Fastify, Hono | accepted | backend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0006 | Persistence — PostgreSQL with Prisma | accepted | data, backend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0007 | Pre-commit hooks and Conventional Commits | accepted | process |
2026-04-29 |
| 0008 | Identity model — multi-tenant Entra ID for workforce, dual-audience design for future External ID | accepted | security, data |
2026-04-29 |
| 0009 | Authentication flow — OIDC Authorization Code + PKCE via MSAL Node, BFF session pattern | accepted | security, backend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0010 | Session management — opaque session IDs in cookies, payload in self-hosted Redis with AES-GCM at rest | accepted | security, backend, infrastructure |
2026-04-29 |
| 0011 | MFA enforcement — Entra ID Conditional Access baseline, BFF claim sanity-check, step-up hooks designed-in | accepted | security |
2026-04-29 |
| 0012 | Observability — Pino structured logs + OpenTelemetry tracing, W3C Trace Context propagation, stdout + collector | accepted | observability, backend, frontend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0013 | Audit trail — separated append-only Postgres schema, decoupled from app logs | accepted | security, observability, data |
2026-04-29 |
| 0014 | Downstream API access — On-Behalf-Of pattern, unified DownstreamApiClient, audience-aware authorization |
accepted | security, backend |
2026-04-29 |
| 0015 | CI/CD pipeline — Gitea Actions, trunk-based + squash-merge, thin YAML over portable scripts | accepted | infrastructure, process |
2026-04-30 |
| 0016 | Accessibility baseline — WCAG 2.2 AA + targeted AAA, Angular CDK + spartan-ng + Tailwind, APF panel testing | accepted | accessibility, frontend, process |
2026-04-30 |
| 0017 | Performance budgets — Core Web Vitals + Lighthouse CI gates, bundle budgets, BFF p95/p99 SLOs | accepted | performance, frontend, backend, process |
2026-04-30 |
| 0018 | Environment configuration — Angular environment.ts, BFF env vars, audit pool split |
accepted | frontend, backend, infrastructure, process |
2026-05-10 |
| 0019 | Internationalisation — @angular/localize, build-time per-locale bundles, /fr + /en path-based routing |
accepted | frontend, accessibility, performance, process |
2026-05-11 |
| 0020 | portal-admin — dedicated SPA for portal administration, sharing the existing BFF |
accepted | frontend, backend, security, infrastructure, process |
2026-05-11 |
| 0021 | Phase-2 security baseline — helmet, CORS allowlist, double-submit CSRF, rate limiting, structured error envelope | accepted | security, backend |
2026-05-13 |