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  1. Grouper
  2. GRP-348

dependent group membership trigger / rule

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    • Resolution: Unresolved
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      From this use case from Duke:

      Delegated Directory Administration - Bill is one of three IT administrators in the Department of Chemistry within the College of Arts and Sciences. As part of his departmental duties, he manages both Windows-based desktops on faculty and graduate student desks and a cluster of Windows-based fileservers. His systems are all joined to an enterprise Active Directory domain which also incorporates user objects for all the university affiliates in the enterprise identity management system. Due to disk space exhaustion, Bill needs to relocate the home directories of roughly half of his faculty from their current fileserver to a new fileserver. He migrates the relevant data, and then needs to update attribute information in the enterprise AD regarding the path to his faculty members' home directories. His status as an IT admin in the department confers on him the ability to update the homeDirectory and homeDrive attributes for users in his departmental OU within the central AD, and he successfully updates his faculty members' information using standard Microsoft tools. Later, when Bill mistakenly attempts to update one of his faculty member's msExchgHomeServerName values, he is prevented from saving the change, since his rights as an IT administrator in the department do not extend to overriding the campus IDM systems' selection of an Exchange home server for his users. Still later, while Bill is vacationing in the Swiss Alps, his departmental fileserver is destroyed in a machine room mishap, and the faculty whose home directories were moved must be restored from tape to yet another server. In Bill's absence, Patrick, who works for the College's IT administration, is able to use his college-wide privileges as an IT admin to update the same homeDirectory and homeDrive attributes for Bill's faculty. When, upon his return from Switzerland, Bill takes a position as a departmental support manager in another department, his privileges regarding Chemistry faculty attributes are automatically revoked.

      https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/macepaccman/Selected+Use+Cases

      I think we need an attribute (built-in or custom) on a privilege assignment or membership which sets up this dependency with a Grouper hook. So the attribute would say that this assignment or membership is dependent on the person's membership in org group (from payroll), and if that membership is ever deleted (all immediate and effective), then the assignment or membership should be end dated or removed...

      We should discuss the design for this, people at Penn have mentioned interest in this also.

      Chris

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            chris.hyzer@at.internet2.edu Chris Hyzer (upenn.edu)
            chris.hyzer@at.internet2.edu Chris Hyzer (upenn.edu)
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