I'm looking for a way to find a the windows login associated with a specific group. I'm trying to add permissions to a tool that only allows names formatted like:
DOMAIN\USER
DOMAIN\GROUP
I have a list of users in active directory format that I need to add:
ou=group1;ou=group2;ou=group3
I have tried adding DOMAIN\Group1, but I get a 'user not found' error.
P.S. should also be noted that I'm not a Lan admin
Programatically or Manually?
Manually, i prefer AdExplorer, which is a nice Active directory Browser. You just connect to your domain controller and then you can look for the user and see all the details. Of course, you need permissions on the Domain Controller, not sure which though.
Programatically, it depends on your language of couse. On .net, the System.DirectoryServices Namespace is your friend. (I don't have any code examples here unfortunately)
For Active Directory, I'm not really an expert apart from how to query it, but here are two links I found useful:
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/LDAP_attributes_active_directory.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Directory (General stuff about the Structure of AD)
You need to go to the Active Directory Users Snap In after logging in as a domain admin on the machine:
Go to start --> run and type in mmc.
In the MMC console go to File -->
Add/Remove Snap-In Click Add Select
Active Directory Users and Computers and select Add.
Hit Close and then hit OK.
From here you can expand the domain tree and search (by right-clicking on the domain name).
You may not need special privileges to view the contents of the Active Directory domain, especially if you are logged in on that domain. It is worth a shot to see how far you can get.
When you search for someone, you can select the columns from View --> Choose Columns. This should help you search for the person or group you are looking for.
You do not need domain admin rights to look at the active directory. By default, any (authenticated?) user can read the information that you need from the directory.
If that wasn't the case, for example, a computer (which has an associated account as well) could not verify the account and password of its user.
You only need admin rights to change the contents of the directory.
I think it is possible to set more restricted permissions, but that's not likely the case.
OU is an Organizational Unit (sort of like a Subfolder in Explorer), not a Group, Hence group1, 2 and 3 are not actually groups.
You are looking for the DN Attribute, also called "distinguishedName". You can simply use DOMAIN\DN once you have that.
Edit: For groups, the CN (Common Name) could also work.
The full string from Active Directory normally looks like this:
cn=Username,cn=Users,dc=DomainName,dc=com
(Can be longer or shorter, but the important bit is that the "ou" part is worthless for what you're trying to achieve.
Well, AdExplorer runs on your Local Workstation (which is why I prefer it) and I believe that most users have read access to AD anyway because that's actually required for stuff to work, but I'm not sure about that.
Install the "Windows Support Tools" that is on the Windows Server CD (CD 1 if it's Windows 2003 R2). If your CD/DVD drive is D: then it will be in D:\Support\Tools\SuppTools.msi
This gives you a couple of additional tools to "get at" AD:
LDP.EXE - good for reading information in AD, but the UI kinda stinks.
ADSI Edit - another snap-in for MMC.EXE that you can both browse AD with and get to all those pesky AD attributes you're looking for.
You can install these tools on your local workstation and access AD from there without domain admin privileges. If you can log on to the domain, you can at least query/read AD for this information.
Thanks adeel825 & Michael Stum.
My problem is, though, i'm in a big corporation and do not have access to log in as the domain admin nor to view the active directory, so i guess my solution is to try and get that level of access.
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We’re editor of backup software, and migration from DSM6 to DSM7 has increased security: now declaring a package running with root privileges is forbidden (except for those written by Synology itself 😤).
Backup software supposes a full access to all filesystem and with DSM7 I can’t find any way to do so:
"defaults": { "run-as": "root" } (in conf/privileges) is not allowed anymore
requesting membership to root or administrators groups is not allowed either
When asking on Synology forum, I am redirected to developpers page or DSM developper manual 😥.
I am currently out of ideas; I may have missed something somewhere, so is there any way to ask for privileges elevation on DSM7?
See the second post in this link. Looks like you may need to request some kind of token from synology.
https://forum.resilio.com/topic/72409-synology-dsm-7-beta-current-third-party-incompatible/
I'm setting up a new share that I've enabled enumerated access on. I'm looking to limit people access to files on a certain folder. I've setup other folders that restrict access unless your in a security group. This folder thats giving me trouble was copied over from another network share. When I create a folder from scratch everything works fine so I'm curious if thats whats giving me issues.
The folder I'm trying to access is
x:/Limerock/Projects/"Project Name"
If I go into the security tab and check my effective access it says that I have full control:
The user I'm signed into is joe.jankowiak which is part of the Domain Admins security group. Domain Admins owns all the folders in above this and has full control.
When trying to enter the folder it tells me I need to request permission. I'm an admin so it goes through and adds "joe.jankowiak" to the full control list in the security permissions.
Why is it not taking my domain admin credentials to enter this folder? I'm seeing other weird behavior such as it saying "Unable to display current owner." and "You must have read permissions to view the properties of this object". Clicking continue lets me see it.
Everything looks right, I've setup 6 other new folders in the exact same manner and they work fine. I've signed in and out many times but it hasn't fixed it. Weird enough, another computer I signed into lets me access the folder just fine. Is there a way to reload file permissions since logging in/out doesn't seem to do it. Is there a command like gpupdate that I should run?
I have seen this before andyou might need to do the following operations in order:
-Replace Ownership on the folder and replace all child object ownership too=>apply or OK
-Close the security properties and re-open it again
-Add Domain Admins as full control and Replace all child object permissions... =>apply/OK
That should do it
One of our user want to save her current filter selections of report using "save current customization" on BI. But its giving error as access denied for user to path /users//<>.
She also complaints that her previously saved customisations are missing after recent deployment.
I understand that, its related to some user permission but not aware how to resolve it via analytics.
Can anybody suggest anything on this?
"after recent deployment" .... So let me guess you overwrote her /users/HerName folder with the one from a different environment. And since 11.1.1.9 still uses GUIDs - guess what you probably just really messed up her folder and those of all users.
Edit: Refreshing user GUIDs : https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/11119/biee/BIESC/privileges.htm#BIESC721
I would like to add a lot of users into my Active Directory Users Group based on a csv with specifics informations like phone numero, email, job ...
I look around the internet and found a "method" using powershell. But, it's always to add basic infos like Name, Surname, Login and password.
Is there a webpage referencing the New-ADuser cmd ?
I found something on this website
http://blogs.technet.com/b/pascals/archive/2013/08/09/cr-233-er-des-utilisateurs-de-test-dans-ad-avec-un-mini-script-powershell.aspx
Thanks,
I usually use the Quest AD cmdlets which makes easier the AD manipulation.
You can download the cmdlets from here.
You can also add phone number, webpage, etc. by default, or you can use the -IncludedProperties for addition.
Here is the syntax for the new user creation.
I am trying to integrate the SSRS report to my web page.
The code is as follows:
ReportViewer1.ProcessingMode = rocessingMode.Remote;
ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportServerUrl = new Uri("http://localhost/reportserver");
ReportViewer1.ServerReport.ReportPath = "/Report Project1/Reconciliation";
List<ReportParameter> paramList = new List<ReportParameter>();
paramList.Add(new ReportParameter("StartDate", startdate.ToString(), false));
paramList.Add(new ReportParameter("EndDate", enddate.ToString(), false));
this.ReportViewer1.ServerReport.SetParameters(paramList);
ReportViewer1.Visible = true;
I get this error when I try to run this report:
The permissions granted to user 'COMPUTERNAME\\ASPNET' are insufficient for performing this operation. (rsAccessDenied)"}
System.Exception {Microsoft.Reporting.WebForms.ReportServerException}
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
To clarify Erikk's answer a little bit.
The particular set of security permissions you want to set to fix this error (there are at least another two types of security settings in Reports Manager) are available in the "security" menu option of the "Properties" tab of the reports folder you are looking at.
Obiously it goes without saying you should not give full permission to the "Everyone" group for the Home folder as this is inherited to all other items and subfolders and open a huge security hole.
You need to give your web app access to your reports. Go to your report manager (http://servername/reports/). I usually just give the whole web server "Browser" rights to the reports.
The account name of your server is usually Domain\servername$. So if you server name is "webserver01" and your domain is Acme, you would give the account Acme\servername$ Browser rights.
I think you could also fix it by disabling anonymous access (in IIS) on the web application you are running the report from, that way reporting services would authenticate using the users credentials instead of the ASPNET account. But that may not be a viable solution for you.
The problem is that your ASP.NET worker process does not have the permissions to do what you want.
Edit this user on the server (MACHINENAME\ASPNET), and give it more permissions (It may need write permissions etc).
You also will need to add MACHINENAME\ASPNET as a user to the SQL database SSRS is working with.