feat(auth): scope Payload admin pages by permissions

Ultraworked with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/code-yeongyu/oh-my-openagent)

Co-authored-by: Sisyphus <clio-agent@siisyphuslabs.ai>

src/payload.config.ts

@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ import { migrations } from "./migrations";
 import { nodemailerAdapter } from "@payloadcms/email-nodemailer";
 import nodemailer from "nodemailer";
 import { Shims } from "@/collections/Shims";
+import { requireAdminPageAccess } from "@/utils/access-control/hasPermission";
 import { payloadAiPlugin, PayloadAiPluginLexicalEditorFeature } from "@ai-stack/payloadcms";
 import { mcpPlugin } from "@payloadcms/plugin-mcp";
 import { createOpenAI } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
@@ -139,6 +140,89 @@ const dirname = path.dirname(filename);
 const META_TITLE = "Polaris Task Force";
 const META_DESCRIPTION = "A gamified platform for Polaris Task Force, an Arma 3 unit.";
 
+const collections = [
+  Media,
+
+  // Game
+  GameHardResources,
+  GameStructures,
+  GameVehicles,
+  GameNpcs,
+  GameEventLogs,
+
+  // Users
+  Users,
+  Roles,
+  Ranks,
+  Profiles,
+  Awards,
+  Qualifications,
+  Assignments,
+  AssignmentTransfers,
+  Experience,
+  UserNotifications,
+  Evaluations,
+
+  // Intel
+  Missions,
+  MissionAttendances,
+  Campaigns,
+  Factions,
+  Technologies,
+
+  // Logistics
+  Assets,
+  Resources,
+  Vehicles,
+  Structures,
+  Shipments,
+
+  // Banking
+  BankAccounts,
+  BankTransactions,
+  LedgerEntries,
+
+  // Locker
+  LockerStorages,
+  Loadouts,
+
+  // Market
+  MarketListings,
+  MarketNegotiations,
+
+  // Helpdesk
+  Tickets,
+  TicketVotes,
+
+  // Projects
+  Projects,
+  Sprints,
+  Releases,
+  Labels,
+
+  // World
+  Maps,
+  NarrativeEvents,
+
+  // Server
+  MissionFiles,
+  ModLists,
+  GameServers,
+  ArmaSyncEvents,
+  ArmaCommands,
+];
+
+// Scoped admin pages: a user needs BOTH `<slug>:read` AND `admin:<slug>:manage`
+// to see/interact with a collection in the Payload admin panel. Non-admin
+// (REST/API) reads keep the collection's original access behavior.
+const scopedCollections = collections.map((collection) => ({
+  ...collection,
+  access: {
+    ...collection.access,
+    read: requireAdminPageAccess(collection.slug, collection.access?.read),
+  },
+}));
+
 export default buildConfig({
   // serverURL: "http://localhost:3000/",
   admin: {
@@ -186,77 +270,7 @@ export default buildConfig({
     },
   },
   globals: [GameRules, Shims],
-  collections: [
+  collections: scopedCollections,
-    Media,
-
-    // Game
-    GameHardResources,
-    GameStructures,
-    GameVehicles,
-    GameNpcs,
-    GameEventLogs,
-
-    // Users
-    Users,
-    Roles,
-    Ranks,
-    Profiles,
-    Awards,
-    Qualifications,
-    Assignments,
-    AssignmentTransfers,
-    Experience,
-    UserNotifications,
-    Evaluations,
-
-    // Intel
-    Missions,
-    MissionAttendances,
-    Campaigns,
-    Factions,
-    Technologies,
-
-    // Logistics
-    Assets,
-    Resources,
-    Vehicles,
-    Structures,
-    Shipments,
-
-    // Banking
-    BankAccounts,
-    BankTransactions,
-    LedgerEntries,
-
-    // Locker
-    LockerStorages,
-    Loadouts,
-
-    // Market
-    MarketListings,
-    MarketNegotiations,
-
-    // Helpdesk
-    Tickets,
-    TicketVotes,
-
-    // Projects
-    Projects,
-    Sprints,
-    Releases,
-    Labels,
-
-    // World
-    Maps,
-    NarrativeEvents,
-
-    // Server
-    MissionFiles,
-    ModLists,
-    GameServers,
-    ArmaSyncEvents,
-    ArmaCommands,
-  ],
   editor: lexicalEditor({
     features: ({ rootFeatures }) => {
       return [HeadingFeature(), PayloadAiPluginLexicalEditorFeature()];

src/utils/access-control/hasPermission.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import type { Payload, PayloadRequest } from "payload";
+import type { Access, AccessArgs, AccessResult, Payload, PayloadRequest } from "payload";
 import { loadUserPermissions } from "@/utils/access-control/loadUserPermissions";
 import type { Permission } from "@/permissions";
 
@@ -80,6 +80,65 @@ export async function hasAllPermissions(
   return permissions.every((p) => userPerms.has(p));
 }
 
+/**
+ * Detect whether a request targets the Payload admin panel.
+ *
+ * The admin panel is served under `config.routes.admin` (default `/admin`).
+ * `req.pathname` is the request URL pathname (set by Payload's request
+ * creation), so this reliably distinguishes admin-panel requests from REST
+ * API requests — unlike `x-invoke-path`, which is unreliable in layouts.
+ * Local API calls (server actions, seeds, MCP, bots) get a non-admin
+ * pathname and therefore keep the original access behavior.
+ */
+function isAdminPanelRequest(req: PayloadRequest): boolean {
+  const adminRoute = req.payload.config.routes?.admin ?? "/admin";
+  const pathname = req.pathname;
+  if (!pathname) return false;
+  return pathname === adminRoute || pathname.startsWith(`${adminRoute}/`);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Factory that wraps a collection's `read` access so that the Payload admin
+ * panel only shows/interacts with the collection when the user holds BOTH
+ * `<slug>:read` AND `admin:<slug>:manage`. Non-admin (REST/API) reads keep
+ * the original access behavior unchanged.
+ *
+ * Apply centrally to every collection in `payload.config.ts`:
+ *
+ * @example
+ * collections: collections.map((collection) => ({
+ *   ...collection,
+ *   access: {
+ *     ...collection.access,
+ *     read: requireAdminPageAccess(collection.slug, collection.access?.read),
+ *   },
+ * }))
+ */
+export function requireAdminPageAccess(collectionSlug: string, readAccess?: Access | boolean) {
+  return async (args: AccessArgs): Promise<AccessResult> => {
+    const { req } = args;
+
+    if (isAdminPanelRequest(req)) {
+      // Admin panel: require both the collection read permission and the
+      // admin page-manage permission. Must return a plain boolean — a `Where`
+      // here would be treated as "no permission" by the admin UI.
+      return hasAllPermissions(
+        req.payload,
+        req.user,
+        `${collectionSlug}:read` as Permission,
+        `admin:${collectionSlug}:manage` as Permission,
+      );
+    }
+
+    // Non-admin (REST/API): preserve the original read access behavior.
+    if (typeof readAccess === "function") return readAccess(args);
+    if (readAccess === true) return true;
+    if (readAccess === false) return false;
+    // Omitted read access → Payload default: any logged-in user can read.
+    return Boolean(req.user);
+  };
+}
+
 /**
  * Factory that creates a Payload collection access function requiring a specific
  * permission. Drop-in replacement for `isDeveloper` / `isAdmin` in collection

tests/int/admin-page-access.int.spec.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+import { getPayload, Payload } from "payload";
+import type { Access } from "payload";
+import config from "@/payload.config";
+
+import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import type { Role, User } from "@/payload-types";
+import { requireAdminPageAccess } from "@/utils/access-control/hasPermission";
+import { invalidatePermissionCache } from "@/utils/access-control/loadUserPermissions";
+
+let payload: Payload;
+
+const RUN = `adm-${Date.now().toString(36)}`;
+const TIMEOUT = 30_000;
+
+describe("Scoped admin page access control", () => {
+  const roleIds: number[] = [];
+  const userIds: number[] = [];
+
+  let readOnlyUser: User;
+  let manageOnlyUser: User;
+  let bothUser: User;
+  let devUser: User;
+  let neitherUser: User;
+
+  const makeRole = async (label: string, extra: Partial<Role> = {}): Promise<Role> => {
+    const role = (await payload.create({
+      collection: "roles",
+      data: { name: `${RUN}-${label}`, slug: `${RUN}-${label}`, ...extra },
+      overrideAccess: true,
+      depth: 0,
+    })) as unknown as Role;
+    roleIds.push(role.id);
+    return role;
+  };
+
+  const makeUser = async (label: string, roleId: number): Promise<User> => {
+    const user = (await payload.create({
+      collection: "users",
+      data: {
+        username: `${RUN}-${label}`,
+        discordUsername: `${RUN}-${label}`,
+        displayName: label.toUpperCase(),
+        steamId: `7656119${Math.floor(Math.random() * 1e9)}`,
+        password: "Test123",
+        // Permission resolution reads roleDocs (the dynamic RBAC relationship), not
+        // the legacy `roles` enum — so assign a real role doc to grant permissions.
+        roleDocs: [roleId],
+      },
+      overrideAccess: true,
+      depth: 0,
+    })) as unknown as User;
+    userIds.push(user.id);
+    return user;
+  };
+
+  // Invoke the admin-page wrapper exactly as Payload would for an admin-panel
+  // request (pathname under /admin). The vitest environment has no Next.js HTTP
+  // server, so calling the access function directly is the standard way to unit-test
+  // Payload access control.
+  const adminDecision = async (user: User | null): Promise<unknown> => {
+    const fn = requireAdminPageAccess("missions");
+    return await (fn as (args: { req: unknown }) => Promise<unknown>)({
+      req: { user, payload, pathname: "/admin/collections/missions" },
+    });
+  };
+
+  // Same wrapper, but on a REST API pathname — the original read access must be
+  // preserved unchanged outside the admin panel.
+  const apiDecision = async (user: User | null, readAccess?: Access | boolean): Promise<unknown> => {
+    const fn = requireAdminPageAccess("missions", readAccess);
+    return await (fn as (args: { req: unknown }) => Promise<unknown>)({
+      req: { user, payload, pathname: "/api/missions" },
+    });
+  };
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    const payloadConfig = await config;
+    payload = await getPayload({ config: payloadConfig });
+    invalidatePermissionCache();
+
+    const readOnlyRole = await makeRole("readonly", { permissions: ["missions:read"] });
+    const manageOnlyRole = await makeRole("manageonly", {
+      permissions: ["admin:missions:manage"],
+    });
+    const bothRole = await makeRole("both", {
+      permissions: ["missions:read", "admin:missions:manage"],
+    });
+    const devRole = await makeRole("dev", { isSuperuser: true });
+    const neitherRole = await makeRole("neither", { permissions: [] });
+
+    readOnlyUser = await makeUser("readonly", readOnlyRole.id);
+    manageOnlyUser = await makeUser("manageonly", manageOnlyRole.id);
+    bothUser = await makeUser("both", bothRole.id);
+    devUser = await makeUser("dev", devRole.id);
+    neitherUser = await makeUser("neither", neitherRole.id);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  afterAll(async () => {
+    if (!payload) return;
+    for (const id of userIds) {
+      const profiles = await payload
+        .find({
+          collection: "profiles",
+          where: { user: { equals: id } },
+          limit: 5,
+          depth: 0,
+          overrideAccess: true,
+        })
+        .catch(() => null);
+      for (const p of profiles?.docs ?? []) {
+        await Promise.allSettled([
+          payload.delete({ collection: "profiles", id: p.id, overrideAccess: true }),
+        ]);
+      }
+      await Promise.allSettled([payload.delete({ collection: "users", id, overrideAccess: true })]);
+    }
+    for (const id of roleIds) {
+      await Promise.allSettled([payload.delete({ collection: "roles", id, overrideAccess: true })]);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("denies admin access with only the collection read permission", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(readOnlyUser)).toBe(false);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("denies admin access with only the admin page-manage permission", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(manageOnlyUser)).toBe(false);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("grants admin access with both permissions", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(bothUser)).toBe(true);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("grants admin access to superuser roles", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(devUser)).toBe(true);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("denies admin access with neither permission", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(neitherUser)).toBe(false);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("denies anonymous admin access", async () => {
+    expect(await adminDecision(null)).toBe(false);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("preserves the default logged-in read on the API path", async () => {
+    expect(await apiDecision(bothUser)).toBe(true);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("preserves the default anonymous denial on the API path", async () => {
+    expect(await apiDecision(null)).toBe(false);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("delegates a Where-returning original access on the API path", async () => {
+    const where = { user: { equals: bothUser.id } };
+    expect(await apiDecision(bothUser, () => where)).toEqual(where);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+
+  it("delegates a boolean original access on the API path", async () => {
+    expect(await apiDecision(bothUser, () => false)).toBe(false);
+    expect(await apiDecision(bothUser, () => true)).toBe(true);
+  }, TIMEOUT);
+});