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Status Under review
Categories Permission/Roles
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 12, 2023

Strip LDAP syntax from SEAS return data and return just the values

PEM/PCM requires each user to have a “role”. When LDAP is integrated with PCM, the “role” is obtained as a mapping from an LDAP attribute value. Enterprise customers with an enterprise Microsoft Active Directory schema can be constrained from using any LDAP attribute besides the “memberOf” attribute (which enumerates AD group membership).
When PCM receives the memberOf attribute value from SEAS, the value contains the fully-qualified LDAP syntax (ex. “CN=group_name,OU=ou, OU=ou2, DN=dn, …etc.”) PCM cannot map the fully-qualified name to a role established within PCM – it needs to receive only the value of the group name. So, for example, “CN=role, OU=ou…” would fail, but “role” would succeed.
The request here is to have PEM/PCM strip off the LDAP syntax and only read/use the CN value provided.