We need to now how we can check whether an account in AD has permissions to add/remove membership on AD group. AD team will be giving our service account permissions for 1000 groups at one time and we want to know a way to check quickly if we really do have permissions before confirming. Any help would be appreciated!
This is hard to answer except for the fact that when they give you permission you can test adding and removing a test user to a group. But this will all depend on the fact if the groups have all the standard default permissions when created, also the method that the AD team will give you access. Adding you to a built in group that has permission to edit the AD group, or if they are going to create a new group and add that to the AD groups. Sorry to be vague but a lot of variable here.
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I need some help understanding the behavior of AD and the security around it.
In a nutshell I have a requirement to automate just in time elevation to certain privileged groups, where Domain Admins is one of the groups we need to add membership to.
Here is a summary on the way I set things up
I created a new group called DomainAdminJit which is a member of "Domain Admins", I add a service account as a delegate to DomainAdminJit to modify membership where I expect to add users to this group instead of the domain admin group directly, for organization purposes mainly.
This works fine but a few minutes later all permissions are to the service account are being stripped, researching this turms out to be done because the AdminSDHolder is reverting those permissions.
My initial reaction was to add the service account with write properties and write permissions to the AdminSDHolder container, but somehow that doesn't work.
I do see the service account now at the DomainAdminsJit group however I get insufficient rights when attempting to add a user to the DomainAdminsJit using that service account.
What am I missing and how do I ensure that service account is always able to add members to a group that is a member of Domain admins and not have the permissions revert?
Your help would greatly be appreciated
Thank you
Is it just me who's finding AD group is very complex? ;-(
I have a web service that only allows a certain number of role groups to have access. Say we allow people within role group 'rGroupA' to have access.
At some point, a user logs on to our web server, and we have the user name. However, we would not like to ask the user to type in the password.
Is it possible for us to know if this user belongs to 'rGroupA' somehow?
Currently, I could logon our LDAP server with my username and password and see the list of groups I am in. However, I could not search for the groups for my colleagues.
I have searched google for a while but haven't found the answer. It could be that I don't understand LDAP mechanism very well.
Many thanks!
Is it possible to have multiple profiles for a PIM role within Azure? If not, is this something that is on the roadmap?
Question from customer: "as you know you can customize the roles to specify the window for that privilege, the approvers and so on. Could you have multiple profiles for each role in the future?"
This is possible with the privileged access groups feature. Simply create two groups, apply different policies and make the users eligible for the group (do not assign the group as eligible, since the members are eligible for the group, which would require them to activate twice). Documentation can be found at aka.ms/pag
Thanks Steve, but what I can see it's only for Azure AD roles, right? It's not possible to assign Azure resources.
Thanks again!
When you create a new privileged access group you can only assign Azure AD roles but not Azure resources roles during the creation, that's what I meant... because with that you can modify the properties for that specific role, in terms of time of the privileged mode, who are the approvers, and so on... will it be available in the future?
Do we know when will it be in GA?
Thanks!!
Ignore assigning roles at group creation time. Simply create the role and enable it for role assignment (this part is required if you want to use it with PIM). Once it's created (even with no AAD roles assigned to it) you can enable the group for Privileged access. After enabling the group for privileged access you can assign members as Eligible, and configure assignment and activation settings for the member and/or owner roles. ETA for GA of this feature (privileged access groups) is end of the calendar year.
I am added to project collection administrator group in VSTS. Still not able to add a new user. I am added using my official email ID i.e. Microsoft work account.
Its says
Guest users are not allowed to perform this action.
I saw the reason on this link
I believe the primary reason for this error is because when a co-admin
with Microsoft account is added to a subscription, it gets added into
the subscription AD as Guest user type.
but since it is very old thread i like to know if there is an easy way to get myself ability to add new user or basically manage VSTS on behalf of client. I hate requesting client to add a new user in team. Also he is not tech savvy so I would like suggest him a simple solution (running Powershell might be annoying for him).
You are inviting users from outside directory. The user will be able to access the account and its resources, so you need the enough permission to add new user to the AD, but you are the Guest user, so it throws Guest Users are not allowed to perform this action.
You need to contact to the corresponding user (e.g. AD admin) to add users to AD or grant the enough role and permission to you to add user to AD.
No easy way to do this, because it is related to security.
I have a Debian Squeeze system which is using libnss-ldap to bind to a 2008 Active Directory domain controller to look up users and groups. Everything works fine, except for some reason anyone who is in the Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, or Schema Admins group does not get the correct group memberships. They get only the *Admin group, and no others (unless there are local groups that apply, which do show).
Stranger yet, a "getent group" shows all the correct group memberships for the user, but an "id " or "groups" (when running as the user) doesn't. We use a domain group for sudo access, and this user is unable to use sudo because it fails to see the group membership. As soon as the *Admin membership is removed, lookups work correctly.
I suspected maybe this was an AD security feature, but we have FreeBSD systems using nss-ldap on which these users' group memberships resolve correctly. There is nothing in the logs to indicate why these lookups don't return the normal results, and I haven't been able to find anything via Google to help shed light on the situation. Is anyone else using libnss-ldap in Debian to connect to an AD who can try to confirm this behavior?
Edit: I have confirmed using ldapsearch that the AD is returning the correct results. I also stopped nscd to make sure it wasn't interfering. Any user in Domain Admins sees only his primary group, local groups, and Domain Admins.
BTW, I think this is the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976063
I have had this problem also.
I found it eventually about 18 months ago. It is a security feature of Microsoft. There is a service that runs once per hour and removes the admins from the LDAP search. If you do a query as anonymous, you will receive the correct answer for 1 hour. After one hour you will receive nothing. If you log in as a domain user, you will receive the correct information. That is why you get different results.
I do not at this point remember the service name but I am searching for it now. I found it originally on Microsoft tech net about 18 months ago, but by now, I don't remember it.
The point was that the only answer to it is
Disable that service and it does many other security items so that is not a good idea.
Change the LDAP searches to run under a domain user's log in (we have done that on some users)
Create a bogus duplicate contact with the same information for each of our admins. This is probably the easiest and quickest, but the most prone to developing wrong information over time.
The rational of this security feature is to hide all domain admins from random anonymous searches so their credentials can't be compromised by an encyclopedia password attack.
Calvin Thomas
My answer was deleted, but the problem was, in fact UAC as described in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976063. The issue is that Domain Admins, when UAC is enabled on the DC, actually exist in two states. One that is a member of the domain admins group (i.e., the UAC 'shadow' user) and another that is the normal user. It appears that the DC only returns the former when queried with LDAP. By creating a new group, making that group a member of Domain Admins instead of the accounts themselves, and putting the accounts in the new group, the problem was resolved.