Metacoda Security Plug-ins – Page 3

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Removing an Unwanted Auth Domain and Logins

This tip details how to go about removing an unwanted Authentication Domain and all associated Login objects from SAS metadata. A need for this can arise when you have been temporarily (or accidentally/unnecessarily) added a second set of inbound logins for all of your SAS users and you decide you no longer need those extra logins (perhaps you are migrating between authentication mechanisms).

If you are using the Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in then the first step is to edit the Identity Sync Profile (IDSP file) using the Identity Sync Profile Wizard and untick the checkbox that configures the 2nd login. If you don’t do this, then the auth domain, and all the logins, will simply be re-added next time you run a sync! You can see a sample screenshot of the wizard page where you can unconfigure the 2nd login below:

Metacoda Identity Sync Plug-in Wizard with unchecked Second Login

After updating, and saving, the Identity Sync Profile you are almost ready to remove the unwanted auth domain and associated logins. Before removing the metadata it is a good idea to do the following: Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Removing an Unwanted Auth Domain and Logins”

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Locate Home Folder for a User

It is usually obvious where a SAS user’s metadata home folder (My Folder or private user folder) is – just look under /User Folders/ (or /Users/ in older SAS versions) for a folder with the user’s name. Sometimes, however, it can be a little trickier to locate: the user name may be cryptic or the user may have been added and deleted in metadata multiple times and you have folders with numeric suffixes i.e. name, name(1), name(2) etc.

To be confident, a user’s home folder can be found specified in metadata. As highlighted in the screenshot below, using the Metacoda User Reviewer, select the user, right click and select Advanced Properties from the context menu. In the Advanced Properties dialog, and the Associated Objects tab you should see the home folder listed in the row where the Association Name is AssociatedHomeFolder.

Metacoda User Reviewer Advanced Properties AssociatedHomeFolder

As a bonus tip, if you need to find home folders for users that are no longer present in metadata see Finding Private User Folders for Deleted SAS Platform Users

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (Protected Object Reviewer)

This post continues a series of examples on Advanced Expression-Based Filters for Metacoda Plug-ins, in this case for the Protected Object Reviewer.

Here are some expressions that you may find useful to copy and paste into the filter bar of the Metacoda Protected Object Reviewer as a starting point for finding interesting sets of SAS metadata objects that have had access controls, Access Control Templates (or ACTs) and/or Access Control Entries (ACEs or explicit permissions), applied to them:

Protected Tree Branch Objects: show folders and objects, underneath the /Vegas Enterprises metadata tree branch, that have had any ACTs or ACEs applied to them.

#@ path.startsWith("/Vegas Enterprises")

ACT Protected Tree Branch Objects: show folders and objects, underneath the /Vegas Enterprises metadata tree branch, that have had ACTs applied (and optionally ACEs). Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (Protected Object Reviewer)”

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (ACE Reviewer)

This post continues a series of examples on Advanced Expression-Based Filters for Metacoda Plug-ins, in this case for the ACE Reviewer.

Here are some expressions that you may find useful to copy and paste into the filter bar of the Metacoda ACE Reviewer as a starting point for finding interesting sets of SAS Access Control Entries (ACEs or explicit permissions):

Tree Branch ACEs: show explicit permissions on folders and objects underneath the /Vegas Enterprises/HR metadata tree branch.

#@ protectedObjectPath.startsWith("/Vegas Enterprises/HR")

Object Type ACEs: show explicit permissions on folders (excluding the root folder) Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (ACE Reviewer)”

Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (ACT Reviewer)

Many of the Metacoda Plug-ins have Filter Bars which provide a way to filter the contents displayed and show an interesting subset. Normally they do simple case-insensitive “contains” filtering on key attributes like name and description (the filter bar label indicates which attributes are used).

Simple text filtering, as described above, is sufficient for many needs. However, for more advanced requirements there is the ability to switch to expression-based filters which are much more flexible. To use expression-based filtering you add a #@ prefix at the beginning of the filter bar field. What follows is then an expression that can use many of the other attributes/columns available in the tables. This expression is written as a Java like expression (BeanShell to be precise) and must resolve to a boolean true/false to determine whether a row should be shown in the table. Any errors in the expression will be shown in a popup error dialog.

This will allow you to do complex expressions like this in the User Reviewer: Continue reading “Metacoda Plug-ins Tip: Advanced Expression-Based Filters (ACT Reviewer)”