[Freeipa-devel] Separating admin policy create role from deploy role

Dmitri Pal dpal at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 19:19:18 UTC 2009


Nathan Kinder wrote:
> Karl Wirth wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> With IPA v2, I think we should make it easy for an organization to 
>> set up the following two different admin roles:
>> 1) Able to create a policy but can't deploy it
>> 2) Able to check and deploy a policy but not create it.
>> I think this fits with the controls many organizations have.
>>
>> Might it be possible to accomplish this using the DS ACIs to 
>> restrict  access to the policies and the policy links?
> We could handle this using ACIs in DS depending on how a policy is 
> "deployed".  If we have a particular attribute that is used as a flag 
> to "deploy" the policy, user #2 could have write access to this one 
> attribute in the policy portion of the tree while being able to read 
> the rest of the policy for checking.
>
> User #1 would be able to write all of the policy attributes except for 
> the "deploy" flag attribute.
Yes. We have this scenario in mind and yes there is an attribute that we 
can key off.

>>
>> Best regards,
>> Karl
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