Feature request · Permissions & security · Blocks work
Pluggable authorizer without recompiling Temporal
3 source threads · first seen 2020-10 · last seen 2025-11
Summary
Adding an authorization implementation requires recompiling the server. The user proposes a plugin-based or external-policy authorizer and offers to contribute it.
- Affects
- Teams needing custom authorization rules
Evidence
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“Compiling external services, temporal server, for custom authentication is inconvenient”
“We're currently modifying temporal open source project and build our own image”
“I'm under the impression that the authorization interface requires user to recompile Temporal.io in order to add an implementation”