Due to the thin AngularFire documentation and the differences between it and the default web documentation for Firebase, I'm a little lost on how best to secure Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations with users.
In short, say I have an application that manages stores. Users can be owners of the stores or patrons. Owners should read and edit their own stores in their view and patrons should read all but edit no stores in their view.
I'm concerned about the security of suggested methods by Firebase docs such as
So for example, we could have a rule like the following to allow users to create comments as long as they store their user id with the comment:
{
"rules": {
".read": true,
"$comment": {
".write": "!data.exists() && newData.child('user_id').val() == auth.id"
}
}
}
To me, this means that I could hack my application's data by simply passing in my victim's user id when I want to post a comment as them. Am I wrong?
I've read the security documentation thoroughly, several times. I think I need further explanation here. Identifying by a client-exposed parameter is the only method I can find so far.