[midPoint] Re. Group Membership in an AD Resource.

Deepak Natarajan dnataraj at trilobytesystems.com
Wed Jan 8 17:29:42 CET 2014


Hi Ivan -

A quick (hopefully last) question about this issue - is it necessary
that the group should exist in AD already..or will Midpoint be able to
create them using the connector if they are not present? (I assumed the
latter and am running into an error...)

Thanks!

BR/Deepak
> Ivan Noris <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>
> January 8, 2014 at 1:19 PM
> Hi Deepak,
>
> I'm doing it with the code based on the following (Groovy):
>
> tmpOut = []
> tmpOut.add('cn=group1,ou=groups,ou=orgA')
> tmpOut.add('cn=group2,ou=groups,ou=depts,ou=orgB')
> return tmpOut
>
> Just be sure you are using the latest connector and connector server
> (from our Nexus) and the setup mentioned earlier or you can have
> problems when specifying the group name as "cn=group1,ou=..." and the
> group is actually stored in AD and returned from its LDAP as
> "CN=group1,OU=..."
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> On 01/08/2014 01:04 PM, Deepak Natarajan wrote:
>
> -- 
> Ing. Ivan Noris
> Consultant
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> Deepak Natarajan <mailto:dnataraj at trilobytesystems.com>
> January 8, 2014 at 1:04 PM
>
> Hi Ivan -
>
> A quick question about returning groups :
>
> How do I return multiple groups...are they comma separated or?
>
> If I have two group DN's to return :
> cn=group1,ou=groups,ou=orgA
> cn=group2,ou=groups,ou=depts,ou=orgB
>
> can I return an array from within the script?
>
> Thank you.
> Ivan Noris <mailto:ivan.noris at evolveum.com>
> January 7, 2014 at 5:23 PM
> Hi Deepak,
>
> I'm using the Active Directory connector to manage accounts in AD, and a
> mapping which assigns user to groups. I didn't have to change resource
> schema to use groups; it is available out of the box.
>
> The mapping is for the icfs:groups attribute and midPoint 2.2.x,
> although it should still be the same for 2.3.
>
> I've adapted this from actual customer configuration, removing the
> customer-specific code, but leaving the XML comments for you:
>
> <attribute>
> <ref>icfs:groups</ref>
> <displayName>Groups</displayName>
>
> <limitations>
> <access>
> <create>true</create>
> <read>true</read>
> <update>true</update>
> </access>
> </limitations>
> <!-- tolerant=false + strength=strong removes ALL other values including
> groups not managed by midpoint
>
> tolerant=true + strength=strong removes old group when the condition
> changes, keeping groups managed outside of midpoint -->
>
> <tolerant>true</tolerant><!-- See above -->
> <matchingRule>mr:stringIgnoreCase</matchingRule>
> <outbound>
> <strength>strong</strength><!-- See above -->
> <source>
> <path>$user/employeeType</path>
> </source>
> <expression>
> <script>
> <code>
> if (employeeType == 'FTE')
> {
> return 'CN=group1,.........................'
> }
>
> </code>
> </script>
> </expression>
> </outbound>
> </attribute>
>
> You may need to use our versions of Connector Server and Active
> Directory connector, there were some case-sensitivity issues in the
> original versions (causing groups like "cn=group1,... and CN=group1" to
> cause problems):
>
> http://nexus.evolveum.com/nexus/content/repositories/openicf-releases/org/forgerock/openicf/dotnet/ActiveDirectory.Connector/1.0.0.20069/
>
> http://nexus.evolveum.com/nexus/content/repositories/openicf-releases/org/forgerock/openicf/dotnet/openicf-dotnet/1.4.0.20081/
>
> And update your resource configuration:
>
> <icfc:resultsHandlerConfiguration>
> <!-- currently this requires latest Evolveum
> version of .net connector server -->
>
> <icfc:enableFilteredResultsHandler>false</icfc:enableFilteredResultsHandler>
> </icfc:resultsHandlerConfiguration>
>
> <!-- Configuration specific for the Active Directory
> connector -->
>
> <icfc:configurationProperties
> . . .
>
> This is the combination I currently use and seems to work well.
>
> Hope this helps,
> regards,
> Ivan
>
> Deepak Natarajan <mailto:dnataraj at trilobytesystems.com>
> January 7, 2014 at 4:55 PM
> Hi -
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to implement group membership for an Active
> Directory resource.
>
> We are using Midpoint 2.3-SNAPSHOT.
>
> Is it still possible to execute this using the idea of LDAP groups
> described here :
> https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/LDAP+Groups+HOWTO (since AD
> supports LDAPv3)?
>
> Does anyone have any working configuration they can share that they use
> against Active Directory to provision users and also set up group
> memberships?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> BR/Deepak
>
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