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The Austin Active Directory schema has been extended with the utexasEduAustinAuxClass and utexasEduAzureAuxClass auxiliary classes. These auxiliary classes add additional attributes to existing classes and allow additional information to be stored on objects in the Austin Active Directory. The attribute permission groups enable granular access to the attributes with easy-to-read group names.

Permission Group Naming Convention

Each attribute permission group follows the [auxiliary-class-type]-[short-object-type]-[short-attribute-name]-[permission-codelabel] pattern. The pattern is comprised of the following components:

  • [auxiliary-class-type] - AUSTIN for attributes in the utexasEduAustinAuxClass and AZURE for attributes in the utexasEduAzureAuxClass 

  • [short-object-type] -  the shortened name of the object that the attribute permission group applies to (ex. User, Group, Computer, OU)

  • [short-attribute-name] - the shortened name of the attribute that the attribute permission group applies to (ex. Single1, Multi2, Bool3, Time4)

  • [permission-

    code

    label] - the

    letter of the

    permission

    code

    label for the permissions granted to the attribute permission group (see below)

Permission

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Labels

Label

Code

Label

Rights

A

Peruse

Access

P

Read

permissions on the attributeBBlockableRead permissions

permission on the attribute; may be limited by record restrictions

C

Change

Read

and write permissions on the attribute

The following are the proposed permission codes:

CodeLabelRightsPPeruse

R

Read permission on the attribute

; may be limited by record restrictionsRReadRead permission on the attributeWWrite

Write

W

Read and write permissions on the attribute

Example attribute permission groups

The current permission codes would result in the following example attribute permission groups:

  • AUSTIN-User-Single11-

    A

    Read - the members are allowed to read the utexasEduAustinSingle11 attribute on users

  • AUSTIN-OU-Multi12-

    C

    Write - the members are allowed to read and write the utexasEduAustinMulti12 attribute on OUs

Script for assigning permissions to Attribute Permission Groups

Note

In order to reduce the size of the ACL, only set an ACE for groups where that access type has been requested.
For example, if there is a request to read an attribute, but no request to write it as well, only set the ACE for the appropriate -A group. Do not set an ACE for the -C group as well if write access is not requested.

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$ad_container - String containing the FQDN of the container to be updated

For user attributes, this will be "OU=People,DC=austin,DC=utexas,DC=edu" in AUSTIN

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$ad_group - String containing the name of the attribute group

Example: AUSTIN-User-Single1-A, AUSTIN-User-Single1-B, AUSTIN-User-Single1-C

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Write - Boolean containing the state of the script (write the ACE or not)

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