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Status Not under consideration
Workspace MQ, MQ Advanced & MQ Appliance
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 19, 2024

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Remove requirement for AUTHSERV security refresh after a user's group permissions are updated in LDAP repository

When using LDAP(S) to manage group access and then permissioning MQ resources by group membership, the authorization cache will never update from the LDAP repository until the "REFRESH SECURITY TYPE(AUTHSERV)" is run on the QM. This introduces a needless manual step to the otherwise decoupled permission model.

Example: TopicA is permissioned with PUBLISH rights for LDAP group "X" and TopicB is permissioned with PUBLISH rights for LDAP group "Y".
User1 initially has membership of group X but not group Y and happily uses TopicA for some period (e.g. months). Later, User1 is granted membership of group Y in the LDAP repository, however they are unable to publish to TopicB until the MQ administrator runs the above refresh security command for the QM. This seems to be because when User1 first connected for TopicA, their group memberships were cached by the authorization service and this authorization service is never updated for a given user.

Some suggestions for improvement:

  • A "lifetime" associated with a user's cache entry, so it is periodically refreshed from the LDAP repo when the user interacts with MQ

  • The ability to schedule a refresh of the whole authorization service for a given QM


Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Mark Taylor
    Reply
    |     Mar 4, 2024

    Refreshing the internal security cache is not unique to LDAP - the same approach has to be taken for OS-based usersThis is not something we would plan to implement in MQ; instead we would recommend using something like a cron-job or similar, to schedule a refresh at times you know the qmgr is not busy. Or link it to your group-membership change processing.

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