[midPoint] Ignore Active Directory OUs

Jason Everling jeverling at bshp.edu
Mon Oct 27 15:01:52 CET 2014


You know, I have been managing AD Forests for many many years and have
never had to grant specific permissions to specific OUs, I never thought
about doing that since I have never had to do it! Wonderful suggestion!

JASON

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Ivan Noris <Ivan.Noris at evolveum.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
>
> Back to AD Resource, Just thinking about our production AD Farm:
>
> Can I have midpoint ignore certain OUs from the resource xml? There are
> some OUs in AD I would really not like for Midpoint to see or manage, maybe
> a filter?
>
> JASON
>
>
>
> There are multiple ways of configuring this:
>
> 1) you can have your permissions in AD restricted to be able to see only
> what you want to see
> 2) configuration property Container might be (never tested for AD)
> multivalue and you can specify multiple subtrees (for OpenDJ and LDAP
> connector this works)
> 3) you can configure Protected Accounts
>
> https://wiki.evolveum.com/display/midPoint/Protected+Accounts
> https://jira.evolveum.com/browse/MID-859
>
> Some examples for Protected Accounts:
>
> - to ignore all (account) objects with carLicense=ignoreme
>
>             <protected>
>                 <filter>
>                     <q:equal>
>                         <q:matching>stringIgnoreCase</q:matching>
>                         <q:path>
> declare namespace ri="
> http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/resource/instance-3";
> attributes/ri:carLicense
>                          </q:path>
>                         <q:value>ignoreme</q:value>
>                     </q:equal>
>                </filter>
>             </protected>
>
> - to ignore all (account) objects under ou=supersecret:
>            <protected>
>                 <filter>
>                     <q:substring>
>                         <q:matching>stringIgnoreCase</q:matching>
>                         <q:path>
> declare namespace icfs="
> http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/connector/icf-1/resource-schema-3
> ";
> attributes/icfs:name
>                          </q:path>
>
> <q:value>ou=supersecret,ou=Users,ou=BA,ou=CUSTOMER,dc=example,dc=com</q:value>
>                          *<q:anchorEnd>true</q:anchorEnd>*
>                     </q:substring>
>                </filter>
>             </protected>
>
> midPoint will "see" the protected accounts, but it will mark each such
> account in the Shadow object as protected and will not allow its
> modification.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan
>
> --
>   Ing. Ivan Noris
>   Senior Identity Management Engineer
>   evolveum.com
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