[midPoint] Protected / excluded accounts

[Jason Everling]

I was curious to try this myself being on AD and I have excluded/protected
entire OUs,

I added a new person to my CSV resource with first name Us and lastname Ers
and yes, you are correct, provisioning fails. I would have figured that it
should iterate to Users1 as that is what it does for the other accounts.

I don't think mine attempted 1000 because in the logs it doesn't seem to
and it only took a minute or so to error out,

2015-07-22 08:30:10,273 [] [midPointScheduler_Worker-6] ERROR
(com.evolveum.midpoint.provisioning.impl.ProvisioningServiceImpl): Couldn't
add object. Object already exist: Object already exists on the resource:
org.identityconnectors.framework.common.exceptions.AlreadyExistsException(The
object already exists.
: when creating LDAP://dc1.test.local/cn=Us Ers,OU=DPN,OU=SHP
Students,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL)->org.identityconnectors.framework.impl.api.remote.RemoteWrappedException(The
object already exists.
: when creating LDAP://dc1.test.local/cn=Us Ers,OU=DPN,OU=SHP
Students,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL)
com.evolveum.midpoint.util.exception.ObjectAlreadyExistsException: Object
already exists on the resource:
org.identityconnectors.framework.common.exceptions.AlreadyExistsException(The
object already exists.
: when creating LDAP://dc1.test.local/cn=Us Ers,OU=DPN,OU=SHP
Students,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL)->org.identityconnectors.framework.impl.api.remote.RemoteWrappedException(The
object already exists.
: when creating LDAP://dc1.test.local/cn=Us Ers,OU=DPN,OU=SHP
Students,DC=TEST,DC=LOCAL)


2015-07-22 08:30:15,532 [] [midPointScheduler_Worker-6] ERROR
(com.evolveum.midpoint.model.impl.sync.LiveSyncTaskHandler): Live Sync:
Internal Error:
com.evolveum.midpoint.util.exception.SystemException: Synchronization
error: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Model operation took too many
clicks (limit is 200). Is there a cycle?


JASON

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:56 AM, <midpoint at mybtinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
>   I'm looking for a way to exclude certain account names for use on any
> resource; this could include:
>     - operating system accounts
>     - service accounts
>     - sensitive accounts
>     - account names generated that may be offensive words etc
>
>   I have noted the protected account feature, however this seems to
> require definition on every resource
>   which can be tedious and prone to error on large numbers of resources.
> Also, as this maps to the
>   designated repository name attribute, it is not very flexible; e.g. if
> you take AD built-in group Users.
>   While this is a group, it still has a sAMAccountName of Users. Setting a
> protection of "Users" does not
>   exclude an attempt to provision an account with sAMAccountName of users.
>
>   What happens in the above example, midPoint attempts to add the account
> to AD, this fails with "Already
>   exists". This does not seem to trigger the need for iteration. This is
> attempted a 1000 times until some
>   limit in midPoint then aborts the transaction. Needless to say,
> performance deteriorates rapidly during
>   this cycle ... I would like to understand where this limit of a 1000 is
> set and ideally reduce this significantly.
>
>   Another side-effect of the AD problem described above; we also have the
> AD "Recycle Bin" feature
>   enabled. Every failed attempt at provisioning the "users" account, also
> leaves a deleted object entry;
>   e.g. with a 1000 attempted adds, this results in a 1000 deleted object
> entries.
>
>   I'm hoping there is a way of setting a global exclusion list or policy
> that would reject certain values
>   by attribute name; e.g. filter, but not based on an individual resource.
>
> Regards,
>   Anton
>
>
>
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