[SSSD-users] LDAP access provider - list of groups in directory?

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Thu Jul 10 13:24:36 UTC 2014


On 07/10/2014 08:11 AM, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
>
>> John, this would actually be a rather interesting idea, but I agree
>> with Dmitri: if this is the level of control that you need, you would
>> be in a far better position with FreeIPA/Red Hat Identity Management.
>> It has this concept baked into its Host-Based Access Control mechanism
>> (which SSSD fully supports). The problem with trying to do this in
>> plain LDAP is that there exists no standard mechanism for maintaining
>> this sort of information on the LDAP server (FreeIPA's HBAC rules are
>> kind of a de-facto standard).
>
> By adding a group to AD per machine with suitable members, and using 
> simple to
> restrict access to that group, are you not in the same place, albeit 
> with an
> extra object in LDAP?


No. HBAC is much more flexible. At uses groups of systems and groups of 
users so you have to create and maintain much less objects.
But in previous email you said OpenLDAP now you say AD. I am confused.

>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

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