Delay in Group Membership awareness

I am having a strange issue with Directory Services and file services. I have a program that syncs my users and groups with the OD server and everything looks fine. People are getting added to groups and it all looks great in the Workgroup Manager, and using dscl I can see them in the group membership. However, when I check with the id command they are not in all of their groups. So they have the rights of the group however the file services do not let them at their group folders. Very strange.
It seems new users get put into all the groups correctly but when I update users and add them to new groups they do not get added until much later. Even removing them from the group and re-adding them in workgroup manager has no effect. Its like some kind of really slow syncing or caching. Anyone know how to update this? I tried restarting Directory Services and it doesn't help, however a restart of the server does fix it.

Good news!
Found it to be an issue with the OD replica we also had. When making changes in WGM on the main server it would not update the replica in a timely fashion which led to the wrong permissions being used. Once I demoted the replica and bound it to the OD master, no trouble.

Similar Messages

How to create LDAP filter-based rule to check Group membership in OAM

Hi folks,
I'm having hard time creating an authorization rule to verify ldap group membership. I've followed "Configure User Authorization" article from Oracle website (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10761_01/doc/oam.1014/b32420/v2authz.htm#BABHBFEJI) and created an Authorization scheme w ldap_attribute_name as User Parameter and ruleExpression as Required Parameter. Then, inside my policy I created an Authorization Rule based on my Authz scheme w Allow Access attrib filter-based Rule which looks like this:
ldap://ldap_server:port/ou=People,o=Company,c=US??sub?(ldap_attribute_name=ldap_attribute_value)
This works fine.
Now, I've added another filter-based rule under the same Authz Rule/Allow Access:
ldap://ldap_server:port/ou=Groups,o=Company,c=US?uniqueMember?sub?(&(objectClass=groupOfUniqueNames)(cn=ldap_group_name))
While query looks somewhat correct and works as a command-line argument (slightly modified format), it does not work in OAM (meaning people w out req-d group membership can still login).
Can someone steer me to the right direction as to what do I need to do:
1. Change/fix the ldap query
2. Create new Authz scheme with uniqueMember userParameter; create new Authz rule based on new authz scheme; create new Allow Access filter rule with the ldap query I have
3. Do smth else
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Roman

You can create two authorization rules
First for user with attribute
and second for group
and then in authorization expression you can have AND of these two.
Regarding your query...
First ... If your requirement is to give access to all the members of a particular group then you don't require any ldap filters
All you have to do is in the authorization rule -> Allow access -> Select People (here you have to select group so click on the group tab, its little hard to see but its there in light blue color on dark blue tab) -> select the group you want to give access
Second.. If your requirement is such that you want to give access to a member of a group which has certain attribute lets say group with status active ( In this case you are not aware of the name of the group because user can be a member of any group but you want to give access only to the group with specific attribute.) then you have to write custom authorization plugin.
If the option is second let me know i can give you a solution which will work for a single domain without any effort of developing a major plugin.
Hope this helps,
Sagar

OBIEE only getting limited number of group membership records

Hey everyone,
I'm seeing some strange behavior with the group membership functionality of OBIEE. Right now we're on version 10.1.3.2 and we've implemented SSO and we setup a query against LDAP (AD) to get user group information similar to the way Venkat's blog demonstrates:
http://oraclebizint.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/oracle-bi-ee-101332-and-oid-user-and-group-phase-2/
At first glance, everything was working smoothly, however, on second glance, I noticed that on users who were part of lots of groups (i.e. 80 groups), not all of their membership information was getting into OBIEE. On my test user, who was part of only 10 groups, I ran a test in which I only gave access to the Answers module to a person from the 10th group. When I logged into OBIEE as my test user, I was able to access answers.
On my second test user, who had 80 groups, I set access to answers for the 75th and 80th groups (both different tests). Neither test allowed this user to access answers. However, when I choose the 5th group returned, the user was quickly able to see and access answers.
When I test out the call to the Oracle function in the Admin tool, I see all the groups returned there.
These strange results lead me to believe that there is only so many group membership records that OBIEE can receive. Is that true? Has anyone seen this before? Did I forget to set something appropriately?
Thanks everyone for your help!
-Joe

Hey,
Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, I was slammed with some work right before the Holiday. Anyway, below is the sample code and an example of it's usage. be sure to replace the <BASE DN>, <LDAP HOST>. <LDAP USER>, and <LDAP PASSWORD> with the appropriate values for your situation.
Also, you'll need to create the "ARRAY" datatype like in Venkat's blog.
Best of luck!
-Joe
select * from table(getusergroup(‘Jbertram’));
create or replace FUNCTION GETUSERGROUP(Username in Varchar2) RETURN ARRAY PIPELINED AS
-- Adjust as necessary.
l_retval pls_integer;
l_session dbms_ldap.session;
l_attrs dbms_ldap.string_collection;
l_message dbms_ldap.message;
l_entry dbms_ldap.message;
l_attr_name varchar2(256);
l_ber_element dbms_ldap.ber_element;
l_vals dbms_ldap.string_collection;
l_raw dbms_ldap.binval_collection;
l_ldap_base varchar2(256) := '<BASE DN>';
l_filter varchar2(100) := '(&(cn='||Username||'))';
l_ldap_host varchar2(100) := '<LDAP HOST>';
l_ldap_port number := 389;
l_ldap_user varchar2(100) := '<LDAP USER>';
l_ldap_passwd varchar2(100):= '<LDAP PASSWORD>';
l_result varchar2(100);
begin
-- Choose to raise exceptions.
dbms_ldap.use_exception := true;
dbms_ldap.utf8_conversion := false;
-- Connect to the LDAP server.
l_session := dbms_ldap.init(hostname => l_ldap_host, portnum => l_ldap_port);
l_retval := dbms_ldap.simple_bind_s(ld => l_session, dn => l_ldap_user, passwd => l_ldap_passwd);
-- Get all attributes
l_attrs(1) := 'memberOf'; -- retrieve all attributes
--l_attrs(2) := 'cn';
l_retval := dbms_ldap.search_s(ld => l_session
,base => l_ldap_base
,scope => dbms_ldap.scope_subtree
,filter => l_filter
,attrs => l_attrs
,attronly => 0
,res => l_message);
if dbms_ldap.count_entries(ld => l_session, msg => l_message) > 0
then
-- Get all the entries returned by our search.
l_entry := dbms_ldap.first_entry(ld => l_session, msg => l_message);
<<entry_loop>>
while l_entry is not null
loop
-- Get all the attributes for this entry.
dbms_output.put_line('---------------------------------------');
l_attr_name := dbms_ldap.first_attribute(ld => l_session
,ldapentry => l_entry
,ber_elem => l_ber_element);
<<attributes_loop>>
while l_attr_name is not null
loop
-- Get all the values for this attribute.
l_vals := dbms_ldap.get_values(ld => l_session, ldapentry => l_entry, attr => l_attr_name);
<<values_loop>>
for i in l_vals.first .. l_vals.last
loop
dbms_output.put_line(substr(l_vals(i),4,instr(l_vals(i),',')-4));
PIPE ROW(substr(l_vals(i),4,instr(l_vals(i),',')-4));
end loop values_loop;
l_attr_name := dbms_ldap.next_attribute(ld => l_session
,ldapentry => l_entry
,ber_elem => l_ber_element);
end loop attibutes_loop;
l_entry := dbms_ldap.next_entry(ld => l_session, msg => l_entry);
end loop entry_loop;
end if;
-- Disconnect from the LDAP server.
l_retval := dbms_ldap.unbind_s(ld => l_session);
--dbms_output.put_line('L_RETVAL: ' || l_retval);
end;

Policies assigned to groups - membership changes not working

I have a single ZESM IR8 server setup.
All security throughout my environment, ZESM and otherwise, is based on group membership.
If I change a user from one group to another group this change does not reflect in their policy assignment.
Scenario: GroupA = standard user policy, GroupB = power user policy.
UserA was first in Group A and therefore got the standard user policy.
UserA now requires the power user policy.
Remove UserA from GroupA and add UserA to GroupB (in iManager).
UserA does NOT get the "power user" policy that is assigned to GroupB
Am aware that I can assign the policy at a user level but this is NOT an option in my environment. All security assignments MUST happen at a group level.

What you observed is the expected behavior.
ZESM doesn't updates group membership in real time once a policy has been published. I've described this behavior on previous posts.
What the MC does behind the scenes when you click "Publish" on a container or group object is to assign the policy individually to each member/user. For groups, it resolves membership at the time the policy is published then the MC iterates among each member assigning the policy to each of them. That's why you don't see updates once the policy is published.
Try Updating the published policy to see if that works. From the docs:
Updating a Published Policy
Once a policy has been published to the user(s) or computer(s), simple updates can be maintained by editing the components in a policy, and re-publishing. For example, if the ZENworks Endpoint Security Management Administrator needs to change the WEP key for an access point, the adminstrator only needs to edit the key, save the policy, and click Publish. The affected end-users and computers receive the updated policy (and the new key) at their next check-in.
>>>
From: laurabuckley<[email protected]>
To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
Date: 12/15/2009 7:16 AM
Subject: Policies assigned to groups - membership changes not working
I have a single ZESM IR8 server setup.
All security throughout my environment, ZESM and otherwise, is based on
group membership.
If I change a user from one group to another group this change does not
reflect in their policy assignment.
Scenario: GroupA = standard user policy, GroupB = power user policy.
UserA was first in Group A and therefore got the standard user policy.
UserA now requires the power user policy.
Remove UserA from GroupA and add UserA to GroupB (in iManager).
UserA does NOT get the "power user" policy that is assigned to GroupB
Am aware that I can assign the policy at a user level but this is NOT
an option in my environment. All security assignments MUST happen at a
group level.
laurabuckley
laurabuckley's Profile: http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=122
View this thread: http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=395870

ACS 5.3 Group Mapping based on AD group membership

Hi,
I am configuring a new ACS 5.3 system. Part of the rules is that I want to match the users specific AD group membership, and match appropriatly to an identity group.
What i'm trying to do is say that if the user is a member of the AD Group (G-CRP-SEC-ENG) then associate them with the Identity Group SEC-ENG. The under the access service, authorization portion, i assign shell profiles and command sets based on Identity Group.
It seems that the ACS server will not match the AD Group for the user, and it will match the Default of teh Group Mapping portion of the policy every time.
I tried several configuration choices from : AD1:ExternalGroups contains any <string showing in AD>, AD1:memberOf <group>.
Is there something special i need to do in the Group Mapping Policy to get it to match and active directory group and result in assigning the host to an Identity Group?
Thank you,
Sami

Ok, my case is like this.
I use ACS 5.3 for VPN authentication, using AD and an external RSA for token authentication (2 factor authentication)
I didn't add all the VPN users in the ACS, because it will be troublesome, the users authentication will be managed by AD and RSA server.
In some cases where we need to restrict a group of user to only access certain resources, downloadable ACL is used.
Following the Cisco docs, i manage to get downloadable ACL works when the authorization profile matching criteria is username, but when i change the matching criteria to Identity group, the downloadable ACL won't work.
I have a case with Cisco engineer now and still in the middle to sort things out.
The advice from the Cisco engineer is to have the Access Service set to Internal User instead of RSA server, but that will require us(the admin) to import all the VPN users into the ACS database.
Wondering whether there is a fix for this.
Thanks.

Weblogic 10.3.0 - Security Violation when Group Membership Lookup enabled

Dear Admins,
We're running a Weblogic 10.3.0 cluster with our own software deployed.
We're using SQL authentication (JDBC to Oracle DB) to authenticate users.
Recently we've been tuning our WL cluster to improve performance, and have enabled Group Membership Lookup Hierarchy Caching.
Sometimes users log into our application and get inssuficient rights (or some other error). This appears to happen at random. Most of the times they can log in without problems.
We determined it's not something to do with the cluster, although it can happen on one node and the other node will work as normal.
In the Managed server we see this error (with test user):
Managed7Server.out00011:java.rmi.AccessException: [EJB:010160]Security Violation: User: 'test' has insufficient permission to access EJB: type=<ejb>, application=leanapps, module=process_general.jar, ejb=LaLifeProcessController,
method=create, methodInterface=Home, signature={}.
When we disable Group Membership Lookup Hierarchy Caching, this error never occurs.
Our settings (Security Realms -> myrealm -> Providers -> SQL Authenticator -> Performance):
Max Group Hierarchies In Cache: 5000 (we have approx. 2000 groups)
Group Hierarchy Cache TTL: 3600
provider specific settings :
Group Membership Searching: unlimited
Max Group Membership Search Level: 0
Also in Myrealm -> Performance we have set :
Enable WebLogic Principal Validator Cache
Max WebLogic Principals In Cache: 5000
If we put the TTL really low (default 60 seconds), the error hardly ever occurs. But we want to have cache that lasts longer then one minute.
This might be a bug, as we have other clusters running on WL 10.3.5, 12c where we use the same cache settings. This issue does not occur there.
I'm more then willing to provide more info or config files
Edited by: user5974192 on 21-nov-2012 5:17

This is fixed now. Someone had defined a Servlet for the web service in web.xml that was preventing the EJB container to kick in.
Edited by: user572625 on Aug 25, 2011 11:54 PM

OIM: What is the purpose of "Update" while editing group memberships

Hi,
This is when you lookup a user's Resource Profile and go to "Edit" link. The process form shows up along with a drop down to edit the group memberships. When we select one of the choices such as "Groups" another window pops up where we could add more entires into the child form. In this form there is an "Update" column with a radio button besides a "Remove" column. What is the purpose of this "Update" column? We can add or delete child entries but what does update do? Is there a way to remove this selection altogether?
Thanks in advance

Update I can see used for a cases where you have multiple columns on a child table entry and want to change one of them. Strictly speaking, you can update a single column child table rather than delete and insert also. Access policies always do insert and delete actions, but you will want to implement an update task as well if you expect anyone to be editing child tables on resources directly.

OIM 9.1.0.2 Group Membership Removal for Disabled Users

Hello
In OIM 9.1.0.2, when a user is disabled, they are removed from the groups they are a member of within 24 hours. i was wondering if this is a set time and if so, can this be extended to a specified time so membership can be left for a week before it is removed from the user. If you can let me know on this I would appreciate it.
Thanks
Nick

Today, when accounts are disabled, within 24 hours all the group memberships are removed on the OIM side. I would like to change the interval for the cleanup so that when an account is disabled, all the existing group (role) memberships stay assinged to the account then after 30 days of the account being disabled, the group (role) memberships are removed. Not sure if this would be an ORM thing or OIM, but I think it would be OIM since ORM still has the role mappings for users when they are disabled.
Thanks
Nick

Map a network drive by group membership

Hello,
I'd like to map network drives by group membership.
To begin I just tried with this command.
$TestMembers = Get-ADGroupMember -identity Test
$TestMembers | foreach-object {New-PSDrive -name T -PSProvider FileSystem -Root \\MyServer\MyShare -persist}
My network drive is well mapped but for all my domain users.
Could you please tell me what's wrong in my command ?
I know I could use Group Policy Preferences but I'd like to know the powershell command.
Thanks by Advance.
Seb.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Hello,
Thanks for your answer it will help me.
Best Regards.
Seb.
Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

AD Group Membership with User From Domain Outside of Forest

Here's one to twist your brain around -
I have kerberos authentication using Active Directory working between a client's web browser and my web-app hosted in JBoss. I also have limited authorization working by checking group memberships using LDAP. This currently only works if all users are in the same domain. The ever-helpful adler_steven has detailed in another thread (http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=603815&tstart=15) how to do a group membership check for all Users/Groups in a single forest using the Global Context.
I need to go beyond the domain and even beyond the forest and try to authorize a user from a trusted domain by checking if the user is a member of a group in my domain. Authentication works fine using kerberos. It's the authorization by group check I am having trouble with. I believe there are two ways to approach this:
Approach #1
Access the MS-specific PAC in the kerberos token from the client to get the group SIDs. The structure of the PAC is nicely defined in this article: http://appliedcrypto.com/spnego/pac/ms_kerberos_pac.html. However, I have no idea how to access the decrypted token. I pass the encrypted token that I receive from the browser to myGssContext.acceptSecContext(...) to complete the authentication.
Question: Does anyone know how to get the decrypted kerberos ticket from there, specifically the authorization-data field?
Approach #2
Try to walk through the Active Directory structures in both domains using LDAP. In the domain group that I am checking, I can see a member attribute that references a foreignSecurityPrincipal object. The CN of this object happens to be the objectSID of the user I am looking for in the remote domain. Unfortunately, I have to check the remote domain server directly to verify that. The foreignSecurityPrincipal object itself does not contain any hint about what user it refers to aside from the SID (no originalDomainName attribute or something similar). It is feasible that I could walk the chain of references back to the remote domain AD server. That would require that my configuration include a list of remote domain servers to check (since I could have users from multiple trusted domains) and that my JBoss server have access to those servers.
Question: Does anyone know of some other LDAP-related way of finding information about a user from a remote, trusted domain without having to hit the server for that domain directly?
adTHANKSvance
Eric

You should be able to work back from the foreignSecurityPrincipal object :-) He says with a wry smile..
This post prompts me to think whether one day someone will draw the entity relationship diagram for AD. Oh well, I've been procrastinating for years, a few more won't hurt !
If it was a user from within the same forest, you should just be able to perform a search against a GC using the objectSID as the search filter. I've forgotten, but I don't think they will be represented as foreign security principals.
Have a look at the post titled JNDI, Active Directory and SID's (Security Identifiers) available at
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=585031&tstart=150 that describes how to search for an object based on their SID.
Now if it is a user from another forest, with which you have a trust relationship, then we begin the navigation excercise.
You'll need obtain the user's SID (either from the cn or from the objectSID attributes) from the foreignSecurityPrincipal object. For example CN=S-1-5-21-3771862615-1804478405-1612909269-2143,CN=ForeignSecurityPrincipals,DC=antipodes,DC=com
objectSID=S-S-1-5-21-3771862615-1804478405-1612909269-2143Then obtain the domain RID, eg.S-1-5-21-3771862615-1804478405-1612909269Next you will have to recurse each of the crossRef objects in the Partitions container, in the configuration naming context (which you will find listed in the RootDSE). The crossref objects that represent trusted domains or forests will have values for their trustParent attributes. A sample query would be something like//specify the LDAP search filter
String searchFilter = "(&(objectClass=crossRef)(trustParent=*))";
//Specify the Base for the search
String searchBase = "CN=Partitions,CN=Configuration,DC=antipodes,DC=com";For each crossRef object, you can then use the dnsRoot attribute to determine the dns domain name of the forest/domain (if you want to later use dns to search for the dns name,ip address of the domain controllers in the trusted domains/forests), and then use the nCName attribute to determine the distinguished name of the trusted forest/domain.dnsRoot = contoso.com
ncName = dc=contoso,dc=comPerform another bind to the ncName for the trusted domain/forest and retrieve the objectSID attribute, which will be the domain's RID. You may want to cache this information as a lookup table to match domain RID's with domain distingusihed names and dns names.String ldapURL = "ldap://contoso.com:389";
Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes("dc=contoso,dc=com");
System.out.println("Domain SID: " + attrs.get("objectSID").get());Once you find out which domain matches the RID for the foreignSecurityPrincipal, you can then perform a search for the "real user" .And then finally you should have the user object that represents the foreign security principal !
Just one thing to note. Assume that CONTOSO and ANTIPODES are two separate forests. If you bind as CONTOSO\cdarwin against the CONTOSO domain, the tokenGroups attribute (which represents teh process token) will contain all of the group memberships of Charles Darwin in the CONTOSO domain/forest. It will not contain his memberships if any, of groups in the ANTIPODES forest. If Charles Darwin accesses a resource in ANTIPODES, then his process token used by the ANTIPODES resource will be updated with his group memberships of the ANTIPODES forest. Also you can have "orphaned foreignn security principal", where the original user object has been deleted !
BTW, If I was doing this purely on Windows, IIRC, you just use one API call DsCrackNames, to get the "real user", and then the appropriate ImpersonateUser calls to update the process token etc..
Good luck.

"Domain Users" group in Active Directory does not belong to any Group Membership in LC

Active Directory user belonging to "Domain Users" group does not belong to any Group Membership in LC, why does it not belong to "Domain Users" group?
Any way to correct this issue, without changing group membership on AD side?
If Active Directory user is member of "Domain Admins" or "Users" then these show same group membership in LC.
Thanks.

If you want to use the Domain Users group for the purpose of representing all the users then you can use the "All principals in domain xxx" group which is created by UM.
Coming back to Domain Users group. For determining group membership in AD UM uses "member" attribute of the group object. "Domain Users" group is treated differently by AD. It is the default primary group for all the users and normally members of the primary group are not specified using the member attribute.So when we sync the data from AD "Domain Users" membership does not get completed.

Group Membership under Settings/My Account is not updating

We use an External table for User permissions/Groups to get updated in Group Membership.
We use our custom tool to create/update new/existing users with the permissions. Then our ETL picks up the changes from the OLTP tables and update User Permission table in our DWH hourly. Now let me explain the present situation. User ABC is an existing user and never used our Report Portal before, we updated ABC user with all the necessary groups to use Report portal and with curiosity she didn't wait until Hourly ETL run and she didn't had the necessary permissions to run any reports in Report portal. But when she login after 1hr/10 hr/ 1 day/2 day, the user won't see the Permissions getting updated in Group Membership. If we check the User permission table in DWH, it is updated with all the new roles, but it is never being updated in 'My Account' Answers. I think this is some kind of Presentation Cache issue, but I did clicked "Reload Files and Metadata" under Settings and "Close All Cursors" under Settings/Manage Sessions. You may also say it may be with the Caching on Initialization Block for the User Permission table, but we did Un-check the 'Use Caching' right below the Row-wise initialization for the corresponding Initialization block. We has 3 users with the same issue now. But when the user waits for certain time (for at least 1hr), and when they login after the actual hourly ETL ran, they were able to get in and use Report Portal without any issue. So, I am kind of sure this is something with CACHING and I might be missing some thing on Clearing this type of Cache. Could someone please help me out on this? This is in PRD and we are not able to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated!
-Dinesh

Yes, we are using Initialization Blocks to update the User Groups. Our USER_PERMISSION table has Login, Company_ID, Roles, etc columns in it. The Initialization Block will query on this Table and the query has a where clause in it and the Where clause "where company_id=(select substr(':USER', 0, (instr(':USER', '.')) - 1) from dual) and upper(login)=upper((select substr(':USER', (instr(':USER', '.')) + 1) from dual))) and dw_delete_date is null" from which it will get the roles for each user. And YES, the Caching is turned off for this initialization block.
And I should try deleting the user folders, but my company has a very strict policy so I should do that in DEv, then QA and in PRD. Hope this works, but I am still not convinced why this is happening. We cannot keep on deleting the user folders in future if this happens again.

Group membership on AD-bound server is not updating correctly

I have a 10.6.4 server that is bound to AD with Win2008 domain controllers. I am seeing group membership not update properly on this OS X server. If I type "id -p username" I don't get a full list of groups the user is a member of. If I launch Workgroup Manager, all of the groups are listed. I am using the box as a Subversion server and need the group updates to propagate from AD for Apache authentication to work correctly. Any ideas as to why the propagation is not happening? Is there a way I can flush whatever cache might be causing an issue? Can the group membership list be "refreshed"?

Yes, we are using Initialization Blocks to update the User Groups. Our USER_PERMISSION table has Login, Company_ID, Roles, etc columns in it. The Initialization Block will query on this Table and the query has a where clause in it and the Where clause "where company_id=(select substr(':USER', 0, (instr(':USER', '.')) - 1) from dual) and upper(login)=upper((select substr(':USER', (instr(':USER', '.')) + 1) from dual))) and dw_delete_date is null" from which it will get the roles for each user. And YES, the Caching is turned off for this initialization block.
And I should try deleting the user folders, but my company has a very strict policy so I should do that in DEv, then QA and in PRD. Hope this works, but I am still not convinced why this is happening. We cannot keep on deleting the user folders in future if this happens again.

Report of Groups owned along with group memberships for each group, all in a single .csv file

Hello all,
What I'm trying to do is generate a report of all groups owned by a specific user, along with the group memberships, and output it all to a single .csv file. In the .csv file, I would like to have the group names as the column headers, and underneath
the group name, list all the members of the group down through the column. So for example, if User1 owns 3 groups, the output would look like:
What I'm having trouble with is outputting the objects to the .csv using New-Object psobject, and I'm starting to wonder if there is an easier way to do this and my brain is just fried.
Any ideas?

OK so I can try and give some code here, but I'm asking more of a concept question about how PowerShell builds objects so I'm not sure it will help....
$User = "User1"
get-adgroup -filter {managedby -eq $user} -pr member | %{
$_.name
$_.member
OK so this is a simple script that outputs a group name followed by the membership, all in a single column. What I would like is for the group names to each be the header of a column, and have the membership listed underneath. For example:
Is this possible in PowerShell?

Getting list of all users and their group memberships from Active Directory

Hi,
I want to retrieve a list of all the users and their group memberships through JNDI from Active Directory. I am using the following code to achieve this:
==================
import javax.naming.*;
import java.util.Hashtable;
import javax.naming.directory.*;
public class GetUsersGroups{
     public static void main(String[] args){
          String[] attributeNames = {"memberOf"};
          //create an initial directory context
          Hashtable env = new Hashtable();
          env.put(Context.INITIAL_CONTEXT_FACTORY, "com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory");
          env.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, "ldap://172.19.1.32:389/");
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_AUTHENTICATION, "simple");
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_PRINCIPAL, "[email protected]");
          env.put(Context.SECURITY_CREDENTIALS, "p8admin");
          try {
               // Create the initial directory context
               DirContext ctx = new InitialDirContext(env);
               //get all the users list and their group memberships
               NamingEnumeration contentsEnum = ctx.list("CN=Users,DC=filenetp8,DC=com");
               while (contentsEnum.hasMore()){
                    NameClassPair ncp = (NameClassPair) contentsEnum.next();
                    String userName = ncp.getName();
                    System.out.println("User: "+userName);
                    try{
                         System.out.println("am here....1");
                         Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes(userName, attributeNames); // only asked for one attribute so only one should be returned
                         System.out.println("am here....2");
                         Attribute groupsAttribute = attrs.get(attributeNames[0]); // memberOf
                         System.out.println("-----"+groupsAttribute.size());
                         if (groupsAttribute != null){
                              // memberOf is a multi valued attribute
                              for (int i=0; i<groupsAttribute.size(); i++){
                              // print out each group that user belongs to
                              System.out.println("MemberOf: "+groupsAttribute.get(i));
                    }catch(NamingException ne){
                    // ignore for now
               System.err.println("Problem encountered....0000:" + ne);
               //get all the groups list
          } catch (NamingException e) {
          System.err.println("Problem encountered 1111:" + e);
=================
The following exception gets thrown at every user entry:
User: CN=Administrator
am here....1
Problem encountered....0000:javax.naming.NamingException: [LDAP: error code 1 -
000020D6: SvcErr: DSID-03100690, problem 5012 (DIR_ERROR), data 0
]; remaining name 'CN=Administrator'
I think it gets thrown at this line in the code:
Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes(userName, attributeNames);
Any idea how to overcome this and where am I wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Regards.

In this sentence:
Attributes attrs = ctx.getAttributes(userName, attributeNames); // only asked for one attribute so only one should
It seems Ok when I add "CN=Users,DC=filenetp8,DC=com" after userName, just as
userName + ",CN=Users,DC=filenetp8,DC=com"
But I still have some problem with it.
Hope it will be useful for you.

Delay in Group Membership awareness

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for