I am retrieving users for Active directory in Jira 7 by using LDAP. I am trying to reduce the number of users brought from LDAP to a particular group that we have created. So in order to do that i put (objectCategory=group)(cn=WebAgileDevs) in the group object filter along with the default settings. The only thing i change is the Base DN and credentials required. When i save and test it does show me that it is testing 1 group and 15 users which is what i want!(See the screenshot). BUT, when i go and sync it, it brings in 43000 users!! What am i missing???
Test Remote Directory Screenshot
The group filter is used to filter the list of groups that are imported to JIRA, and the user filter is used to filter the list of users that are imported to JIRA. The two need not necessarily correspond. Your group filter would be instructing JIRA to bring in only that one group (into the list of groups), but without further refinement, your user filter will still be pulling in all users, as you noticed. This means that you need to adjust the user filter too.
From your question, you want to import only those users who are a member of a specific group. Atlassian provides some general guidance here.
The last example on that page is particularly relevant for you:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(sAMAccountName=*)(memberOf=cn=CaptainPlanet,ou=users,dc=company,dc=com))
This tells JIRA to pull in only those user objects that are a member of the group cn=CaptainPlanet,ou=users,dc=company,dc=com. You would want to replace this with your cn=WebAgileDevs (plus whatever trailing qualifiers you need to fully qualify the group name).
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I'm looking for a way to migrate data from LDAP-hosted groups to Google Groups.
With GCDS only the users are migrated, but I would like to migrate the data, do you know any way?
Thanks team
I've migrate groups between different directories using custom-written scripts. This requires some type of mapping between IDs. That is I know the fully qualified DN of each member within the LDAP-hosted group, I can match that up to a record in the new directory -- e.g. cn=lisa,ou=users,o=example has uid lisaj, and there's a corresponding account with the logon id lisaj in the new directory. I've had to do migrations where there was no direct correlation available within the two directories, and successfully linked the two systems using a text file with cross-reference info. A line in the file might say "lisaj 019485-B9184A-9284C-1949" to map my user id in the old system to a record identifier in the new one.
Basic process:
Connect to source LDAP
Find all in-scope groups For each in-scope group, get member list
Find the corresponding group in the new directory (if none exists,
create it)
For each member, find corresponding account in new
directory
Add member to group in new directory
(https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/members/insert
for Google Groups,
https://github.com/alfasin/Google-Admin-Directory-API has some Python
examples)
As a one-off process, it's pretty simple. If you need the two directories to remain in sync for some time, the script becomes a little more complicated. Assuming the old directory is "authoritative" (the one with the 'right' data -- and you can only make changes in one of the directories, otherwise it's impossible to tell which members actually should be in the group), you need to check the new directory group for any members that aren't a member of the old directory group and remove them as well as add any old directory group members that aren't in the new directory group yet. I generally add a "last modified" constraint to the filter used to locate groups in the old directory -- e.g. find all group objects where the lastModified timestamp is in the past 24 hrs -- to avoid continually reprocessing data for groups that haven't changed.
Given my tabular model, I'm attempting to write a measure that changes behavior, depending upon which role the effective user belongs to. This isn't traditional row-level security (RLS) since I'm not trying to filter by role; just do an if-else, instead.
I've come across the following solution at https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/DAX-Expression-For-Role-Level-Security-Using-DirectQuery/td-p/489699, which I believe will work, but I'd prefer querying active directory to see if the user belongs to said role, rather than another table on the model.
I've also seen some articles (i.e. https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/How-to-leverage-Active-Directory-to-filter-the-data-in-Power-BI/td-p/140479) about getting attributes from active directory for Power BI, but nothing that exposes the DAX being used.
Bottom line, if I could get a role name in DAX or call a function to check if the user is in a role, I'd be golden (assuming performance isn't compromised).
Edit: I should add that I'm currently leveraging one of three functions to get the user. USERNAME(), USEROBJECTID(), and USERPRINCIPALNAME().
I ended up giving up on leveraging active directory and did what it appears everyone else is doing (as seen in one of the links posted in my question).
For reference, here's a snippet that illustrates the solution:
EVALUATE
SUMMARIZECOLUMNS (
"Some Measure",
IF (
LOOKUPVALUE('My User'[UsePrivilegedValue], [Name], USERNAME()),
SUM('Some Fact'[PrivilegedValue]),
SUM('Some Fact'[OtherValue])
)
)
New to LDAP. The way our LDAP is arranged is People and groups. The people have user information such as name, uid, and mail. The groups have group name and multiple member field which has value like cn=First Last,cn=people,dc=comic,dc=com, listing the People that are members of the group.
Currently starting with userid and password, doing two searches:
1) Get user by searching on People base domain on uid=value. Then from the user get the first and last name.
2) Search on Groups base domain based on member=cn=First Last,cn=People,dc=comic,dc=com and iterate over the list of group objects returned to the group name field.
Am just wondering is there way to do all this in one search or are two searches necessary?
Unfortunately you cannot do what would like in one operation.
Also, what you are doing will not always work. Instead of retrieving the users first and last name you should retrieve their distinguished name (dn attribute) and do your group search based on that. First and last names can be modified within LDAP and can happen due to marriage / divorce / etc.
It is possible, provided that you implement a Reverse Group Membership Maintenance Overlay.
To determine which groups an entry is a member of without performing extra searches, the memberOf overlay is exactly what you need.
The memberof overlay updates an attribute (by default memberOf)
whenever changes occur to the membership attribute (by default member)
of entries of the objectclass (by default groupOfNames) configured to
trigger updates. Thus, it provides maintenance of the list of groups
an entry is a member of, when usual maintenance of groups is done by
modifying the members on the group entry.
You may find this Server Fault post useful for a how to.
Once you have memberOf attribute ready to be used, you may have to run ldapmodify manually on each group entries, but just once, so that all members entries can be provisioned with the corresponding group dn in their respective memberOf attribute.
Finally, to perform a group membership search for a given user, you would just search for the user entry and iterate the memberOf attribute to get group dn's.
What is the search filter to list users belong to specific group like "engineering" in a ldap server which don't have backlink enabled.
For example, if backlink enabled i can use following filter,
(&(objectClass=person)(memberOf=cn=engineering,ou=Groups,o=company,o=com))
Wanted to know corresponding search query without using memberOf attribute.
Thanks
DarRay
Try your filter as:
(&(objectClass=group)(cn=engineering))
using a base of
ou=Groups,o=company,o=com
and a scope of subtree
Returning attribute "member"
Or even more efficient:
(objectClass=group)
With a base of
cn=engineering,ou=Groups,o=company,o=com
and a scope of base
Returning attribute "member"
-jim
The main question is: How are the users linked to groups?
One way is by specifying the users as attributes in the group. That can be done either via the uniqueMember- or the memberUid-Attribute. To find the users of a certain group you will have to use two queries. One query will retrieve the DNs or UIDs of the users of a group by fetching the uniqueMember or memberUid attribute of the group in question depending on your setup. Then you can retrieve the users by either using (&(objectclass=person)(uid=<uid>)) or (&(objectclass=person)(dn=<dn>)).
The other way is by storing the grous as attributes in the user, which you described above.
Hope that helps.
I would like to join the user object and project permission object to see how many users have been assigned to a project, for audit purpose. I don't see a common field with common values (email address or first name/last name) between these objects. I used Excel plugin to retrieve two separate data sheet and unable to map them. Any thoughts on this on how to do this?
You're probably seeing something similar to the following when you query on ProjectPermissions:
In this situation, the default User object selected from the "Columns" picker in the query dialog, gives you the User's DisplayName, which doesn't unambiguously map to a Rally UserID.
Note, however, that you can add dot-notation sub-fields of Objects manually by typing them into the Columns field. In the following example, I've included User.Username and User.LastLoginDate as additional fields I want to show on the Permissions report:
Of course, you could also just include User.Username, and run a second query on the User object with all fields selected, and do a join in Excel.
One note of caution - if you have many users (say 1,000), and a lot of projects, (say 1,000, which is not uncommon in large Rally subscriptions), querying directly against the ProjectPermissions endpoint can rapidly result in total results that number on the order of 10^6. This will probably time out in an Excel query.
The Rally User Management: User Permissions Summary script works around this by querying Permissions in a loop on a user-by-user basis. It's slow, but it returns results without timeouts. Certainly not as convenient as Excel either - you need to install Ruby 1.9.2+ and the rally_api gem to get it working.