Cannot find AD attribute to delegate permissions for User Objects

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    Applies to:
  • Legacy SecureAuth IdP
Deployment model:
  • On Premises
  • SecureAuth IdP Version Affected:  All

     

    Description: 

    When trying to delegate permissions to certain attributes in Active Directory (i.e. registeredAddress) to User Objects, you cannot find it listed in the Permissions window.

     

    Cause: 

    The following list of attributes are stored within specific property sets for User Objects, which is what is actually listed as in the Permissions window:

    General Information

    Property set containing a set of user attributes that constitute general user information.

    Applies to: User

    • Display Name

    • adminDescription

    • codePage

    • CountryCode

    • ObjectSid

    • primaryGroupID

    • sAMAccountName

    • sAMAccountType

    • sDRightsEffective

    • showInAdvancedViewOnly

    • sIDHistory

    • UID

    • comment

    Personal Information

    Property set containing user attributes that describe personal user information.

    Applies to: Computer, Contact, User

    • streetAddress

    • homePostalAddress

    • assistant

    • info

    • country/region name

    • facsimileTelephoneNumber (fax number)

    • International-ISDN-Number

    • Locality-Name

    • MSMQ-Digests

    • mSMQSignCertificates

    • Personal-Title

    • Phone-Fax-Other

    • Phone-Home-Other

    • Phone-Home-Primary

    • otherIpPhone

    • ipPhonenumber

    • primaryInternationalISDNNumber Phone-ISDN-Primary

    • Phone-Mobile-Other (otherMobile)

    • Phone-Mobile-Primary

    • Phone-Office-Other (otherTelephone)

    • Phone-Pager-Other

    • Phone-Pager-Primary

    • physicalDeliveryOfficeName

    • thumbnailPhoto (Picture)

    • postalCode

    • preferredDeliveryMethod

    • registeredAddress

    • State-Or-Province-Name

    • Street-Address

    • telephoneNumber

    • teletexTerminalIdentifier

    • telexNumber

    • primaryTelexNumber

    • userCert

    • User-Shared-Folder

    • User-Shared-Folder-Other

    • userSMIMECertificate

    • x121Address

    • X509-Cert

     

    Public Information

    Property set containing user attributes that describe user public information.

    Applies to: Computer, User

    • Additional-Information notes

    • Allowed-Attributes

    • allowedAttributesEffective

    • allowedChildClasses

    • allowedChildClassesEffective

    • altSecurityIdentities

    • Common-Name (cn)

    • company

    • department

    • description

    • displayNamePrintable

    • division

    • E-mail-Addresses

    • givenName

    • initials

    • legacyExchangeDN

    • manager

    • msDS-Approx-Immed-Subordinates

    • msDS-Auxiliary-Classes

    • distinguishedName (Obj-Dist-Name)

    • Object-Category

    • Object-Class

    • Object-Guid

    • Organization-Name

    • Organizational-Unit-Name

    • otherMailbox

    • Proxy-Addresses

    • RDN name

    • Reports (directReports)

    • servicePrincipalName

    • showInAddressBook

    • Surname

    • System-Flags

    • Text-Country/Region

    • Title

    • userPrincipalName

     

    Private Information (2008 Domain Functional Level or newer)

    Property set containing user attributes that describe user public information.

    Applies to: Computer, User 

    • ms-PKI-Credential-Roaming-Tokens

    • ms-PKI-RoamingTimeStamp

    • ms-PKI-DPAPIMasterKeys

    • ms-PKI-AccountCredentials

     

    Resolution:  

    Find the attribute you are trying to delegate permissions to in the list above, and then delegate read/write permissions to the property set it belongs to.

     

    Special Considerations:  

    From a security perspective, you will need to be aware when delegating permissions to property sets as it will allow read/write abilities to other attributes within that set, which may be more access than you want to grant to the service account in use by the IdP.  If that is the case, you should review other AD attributes as potential candidates to store the user's data for IdP consumption.

     

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    Customers are responsible for their own due diligence prior to utilizing this information and agree that SecureAuth is not liable for any issues caused by misconfiguration directly or indirectly related to SecureAuth products.

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