Configuring a Service Provider User Admin Role

To configure a Service Provider User Admin Role, create an admin role and specify the scope of control, capabilities, and to whom it should be assigned.

Before creating a Service Provider User Admin Role, define the search context, search filter, after search filter, capabilities, and user assignment rules for the admin role.

To use the following rules, you must specify the rule's authType:

• SPEUsersSearchContextRule

• SPEUsersSearchFilterRule

• SPEUsersAfterSearchFilterRule

• CapabilitiesOnSPEUserRule

• UserIsAssignedAdminRoleRule

• SPEUserIsAssignedAdminRoleRule

Identity Manager provides sample rules that you can use to create these rules for Service Provider User Admin Roles. These rules are available in sample/adminRoleRules.xml in the Identity Manager installation directory.

For more information about creating these rules for your environment, see Sun Identity Manager Service Provider 8.1 Deployment.

To Configure a Service Provider User Admin Role

1. In the Administrator interface, click Security on the menu, then click Admin Roles.

   The Admin Roles page opens.

2. Click New.

   The Create Admin Role page opens.

3. Specify a name for the admin role and select Service Provider Users for the type.

4. Specify the Scope of Control, Capabilities, and Assign To Users options, as described in the following sections.

Specifying the Scope of Control

The scope of control for the service provider user admin role specifies which service provider users a given Identity Manager administrator, Identity Manager end user, or Identity Manager service provider end user is allowed to see. It is enforced when a request is made to list Service Provider Users in the directory.

You can specify one or more of the following settings for the Service Provider User Admin Role scope of control:

• User search context. Specify whether a rule or text string is to be used to begin a search.

  If None is specified, the default search context will be the base context specified in the Identity Manager Resource configured as the Service Provider User directory.

• User search filter. Specify whether a rule or a text string that is to be applied for the search filter.

  The text string specified or returned by the selected rule should be an LDAP-compliant search filter string that represents the set of users, within the search context, that will be controlled by users assigned this Admin Role. The specified filter will be combined with the user specified search filter to ensure that users returned from the search do not include any users that users assigned this AdminRole are not authorized to list.

• After user search filter rule. Select a rule that will be applied after the User search filter is applied.

  This rule is run after the initial LDAP search is performed against the Service Provider User directory and evaluates the results to determine which distinguished names (dn) the requesting user is allowed to access.

  This type of rule can be used when you need to determine if a user should be in the requesting user’s scope of control using non-LDAP user attributes (for example, group membership), or when the filter decision needs to be made using a repository other than the Service Provider User directory (for example, an Oracle database or RACF).

Specifying Capabilities

Capabilities for the Service Provider User Admin Role specify which capabilities and rights the requesting user has on the Service Provider User for which access is being requested. It is enforced when a request is made to view, create, modify, or delete a Service Provider User.

On the Capabilities tab, select the Capabilities Rule to apply for this admin role.

Assigning Admin Roles To Users

Service Provider User Admin Roles can be dynamically assigned to service provider users by specifying a rule that will be evaluated at login time to determine whether to assign the authenticating user the Admin Role.

Click the Assign To Users tab, and select the rule to apply for the assignment.

Dynamic assignment of Admin Roles to users must be enabled for each login interface (for example, the User interface and the Administrator interface) by setting the following System Configuration object (Editing Identity Manager Configuration Objects) to true:

security.authz.checkDynamicallyAssignedAdminRolesAtLoginTo.logininterface

The default for all interfaces is false.