In many cases during chaincode instantiating we need to define permissions for chaincode functions - "who is allowed to do this thing", incredibly important in the world of smart contracts, but in many examples access control implemented at the application level but not at the blockchain layer.
The most common and basic form of access control is the concept of ownership
: there's one account (combination
of MSP and certificate identifiers) that is the owner and can do administrative tasks on contracts. This
approach is perfectly reasonable for contracts that only have a single administrative user.
CCKit provides owner
extension for implementing ownership and access control in Hyperledger Fabric chaincodes.