I currently have a user whose Access Rights are messed up and I'd like to reset them. I could be blind but does anyone know of a way to do this?
I am not aware of a way to reset the user rights.
The only way I can think of is deleting the user and create a new one, or write a script that loops to the tree or retrieves al items that the current user has rights on and resets the rights for this user.
Security of an item is stored within the __security field on the item itself. Furthermore, security is stored by the name of the user or role, not by an ID. Deleting a user/role will not modify any item that references that user/role so you effectively get orphaned access rights.
I had created a script years ago that will report on (and reset) the security of items. It is available from my blog post and I referenced it within this similar question. You should be able to modify that script to remove a single user's rights.
So far, the only way I've been able to do this is to go into the Security Editor, select the user, then open every item in the tree and unset every access right manually to the default setting of Inherited.
For instance, there are at least a Read/Write/Rename/Create/Delete/Administer/Inheritance permission on just the Home item alone. Each permission has one of the following states: Inherited/Allowed/Denied/Item vs. Descendant Right/Protected/Not Applicable. If any of those are set, manually unset it. So, if it were set to Allowed, you'd click the green check mark which would unset it from Allowed (I guess you could argue I'm setting it to Inherited).
To get back to square one, everything should be set back to Inherited.
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I've been working on a project that allows users in our domain to edit 3 Active Directory Attributes on their own Object, this has been written in Python and the only issue I have now is user permissions on these attributes.
Two of these are custom, the third is the Location(physicalOfficeDeliveryAddress).
I have looked everywhere and only found documentation on how to give permission for users in a group for these attributes but for ALL users or limited by group.
I'm looking to apply the permission under the Identity Reference: NT AUTHORITY\SELF so that users may only edit their own attributes.
In less words, I'm looking to write a script that will delegate permissions for three specific attributes to ALL users in the domain but only for themselves(NT AUTH\SELF).
I have a loop that will perform it for each user, I just have hit a brick wall in what to include in the loop..
Any help would be appreciated.
NT AUTHORITY\SELF is one of Windows' well-known SIDs, with a SID of S-1-5-10.
So you do it the same way you would for any other account, but grant the permissions to S-1-5-10 instead.
If you show us the code you're working with, we might be able to help you with where to plug in that value, if you need.
Our old authentication mechanism had mandatory and immutable email for each user by design. After exporting old authentincation mechanism into the hands of Keycloak 4.6.Final, We are left with old references to users by email as this was in fact used as an id from the beginning of this system.
Keycloak User Management UI is delivered to client as part of a whole system. Now we're facing a problem where the users administrator at the customer's side is able to create users with no email, and even worst, he give a user one email and overtime change it. Leaving this option open is most likely to create bugs for the client as the user base grows.
I've been digging around google, sof, keycloak mailing list search engine, and couldn't find any documentation relating developer's ability to apply configuration on top of particular keycloak distribution which would set features such as mandatory and immutable on some user attributes which are optional and editable by default.
I know that question is old, but maybe someone will need answer.
it's 2022-11 and there is experimentas feature in Keycloak 20. You can enable declarative-user-profile and then customize your user profile and set required fields and other options. user-profile
This feature may be removed in the future, because it's experimental.
And this feature has bugs (tried with 20.0.1). For example, if you add required attribute group, then you can see groups while creating new user and you can select groups. But if you try to save user, then error appears telling, that group is required.
This is a few different questions.
First one is how do you delete a user group? I've seen the option for removing a group from another group, but I haven't been able to find an option for completely deleting the group.
Second is how do I set security so that users in a specific group can only view and run reports? So far, I've gone into User Security on the group, disabled inheriting from the parent group and folder, and set "View" and "View On Demand" in basic settings and "View objects" and "View objects that the user owns" in advanced. But regardless of what they have, either they can still move and delete reports or can't view anything at all depending on whether they're under the Administrators group.
Related to that last part of the second question, when the user group is a subgroup of Adminsitrators they can see all the tabs, but if I move them to the Everyone group, then they can't see anything when logged in when I set the Folders view on Configure CMC Tabs. Ideally, I'd like the users to be under a different group entirely for clarity, but then they can't seem to do anything, which definitely won't work.
Finally figured this out.
For the first one, I couldn't delete the group because it had customized security settings. After resetting those to the default inheritance and removing it from all other groups, I was able to delete it fine.
For the folders and running the reports, the security has to be set on the folder structure, not on the user group.
Is there any special security privileges that i need to give my users so that they can run some custom code? I have a javascript library that is triggered on a button click that then gets all of the selected items in a subgrid. When I get all of the check-boxed items I then feed that into an update operation and upload the string if items (in the form of GUIDs) into a Single Line Textbox field on my entity. Once that field is updated they will trigger a dialog which consumes the textbox field and does some more work on it.
The problem is that nothing happens. I solved one issue once I figured out that the user needs Organizational write access to the entity, but now I see another exception "...is missing prvReadWorkflow privilege" does that mean these users need Read Access on Organizational workflows?
Am I missing anything else?
I don't have an explaination for why you require read access to workflows for this update operation, but this microsoft CRM forum post appears to be about the same issue you are having.
Tanguy suggests you add read access to processes for the affected user.
I need to compare AD users permissions (one user can "unset" an attribute and another cannot, both can change it).
How can I dump/compare user account "effective permissions" which I find when I go to user account > Security > Advanced > Effective Permissions (and select an user account) with powershell?
Using Quest Free PowerShell Commands for Active Directory is simple:
Get-QadPermission useraccountname -Inherited
or better way:
Get-QADUser -Name useraccountname -SecurityMask DACL | Get-QADPermission -Inherited -SchemaDefault
This return all effective permission Inherited or Explicit assigned for the user 'useraccountname'
The comparison can be made with compare-object.
A very simple example:
compare-object (Get-QADPermission userA -Inherited | select Rights) (Get-QADPermission userB -Inherited | select rights)
We were in a similar situation once and needed to know who all could delete one of our main OUs, so we figured that maybe we should dump the ACL on the OU and look for everyone who had delete permissions on the object. Of course dsacls was very helpful in this regard and we could dump the ACL on it easily.
But then, as we started looking at the ACL, we found that it had almost 60 permission entries, including about half a dozen deny entries, some of which were direct and others inherited. We initially didn't consider the denies and came up with a list of about 200 users who could delete the OU, but that did not seem right (; it seemed too high.) Then, we realized that we had to intersect the denies with the allows!
So we flattened all deny permissions, and all allow permissions, but then we had to figure out which of these denies would apply, since some of them were inherited, and I believe the inherited ones don't negate any direct allows, so that took some more pain-staking work, and while doing it we realized that some of those inherited permissions did not apply to the object, so we had to start from scratch!
Finally, we almost gave up, and when I asked one of our Enterprise Admins, he said what we needed to do was determine Effective Permissions on our OU, and he pointed us to the Effective Permissions Tab in the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in.
So we launched ADUC and navigated to the Effective Permissions Tab, and figured it would be a matter of clicking OK somewhere. However, we soon realized that it needed us to enter each person's name individually. Now, we have almost 2000 people in our environment, so there was no way we could put in 2000 people's names one by one. The other thing was that even for a single person, it would show us all the effective permissions for that person, and in technical terms, which we would have to further refine.
We then figured we'd give Powershell a shot, and looked at many options to do this using Powerhsell, but there was no easy to determine effective permissions in AD using Powershell, which was disappointing. In particular, we tried Quest's free PowerShell commands Get-QadPermission useraccountname and Get-QADUser -Name useraccountname, but we were disappointed to see that this only retrieved the list of all permissions specified for a given user. It did not reveal the Effective Permissions granted to a user. We found ourselves having to start with the results it brought back to then manually try and determine effective permissions, which was not worth our time.
So, we had almost given up hope, but before quitting we thought we would just Google "Active Directory Effective Permissions Tool" with the hope that there must be something out there that could do this for us. I am glad we did because we found a tool that could do exactly what we needed: figure out effective permissions on our OU and give us the ability to export these effective permissions -
http://www.paramountdefenses.com/goldfinger_capabilities_true_effective_permissions_for_active_directory.html
We found that this tool (called Gold Finger for AD) has the ability to determine Effective Permissions on Active Directory objects, and provide the output such that we could easily see the list of all users who had "effective permissions" for a specific right on an object. For instance, we were able to use it to determine and enumerate the list of all admins who had "effective delete access" rights on the OU we were interested in.
It has turned out to be quite helpful for us, and maybe it could be of help to you too. I just thought I would share this because I've been the dsacls route and I wouldn't want you to go through the same pain we did in trying to manually do this. Its just too painful to do do manually.