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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Administration and Security => Topic started by: sdf on 18 Dec 2018 12:48:50 PM

Title: Active Directory Search restriction
Post by: sdf on 18 Dec 2018 12:48:50 PM
Hi Gurus,

I wanted to know if there's something wrong in our Active Directory namespace setup or what we are having is an expected scenario.
in all our environments, when users navigate to Active Directory Namespace (admin users), the users are presented with the directories that they are allowed to traverse. But when the user is in the root folder of the AD namespace and do a search, the results shows all users and groups that belong to different OUs. It seems the whole AD is exposed to everyone.

Another case of such, when selecting recipients of a report send through email. Same scenario when doing search in the AD namespace.

This is true as well when using AD in framework manager for object/content security. When searching users, all results are shown for the whole AD regardless of the OU.

Is this a normal behavior or can we do something in Cognos side or AD side to prevent users from seeing AD objects that does not belong to their OU.

Hope you can shed some light.

sdf
Title: Re: Active Directory Search restriction
Post by: Reinhard on 19 Dec 2018 07:17:21 AM
Hi,

well, one of my customers had the same behavior but I cannot remember if we found any way to change this.

Regards,