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Manoj_Chavali
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Jun 12, 2020

Granular Access control policies

We are trying to use the Big IP system as a SAML service provider and PingFederate as a SAML Identity Provider.  Is it possible to create an access policy which allows/denies user to access a particular protected resource based on user atrributes or groups using F5 Big IP APM?

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  • youssef1's avatar
    youssef1
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    Jun 12, 2020

    Hello,

     

    Yes of course, If you host your SP on F5 you can allows/denies user to access a particular SAML Attributes or LDAP attributes...

     

    You can also using per request policy allow user to access to a specific URI depending an LDAP/AD Attributes...

     

    give me exactly your need and I can help you to go ahead.

     

    regards

    • Manoj_Chavali's avatar
      Manoj_Chavali
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      Jun 15, 2020

      Hi,

       

      Thank you for the information. Could you please point me towards any document on how to implement the authorization based on the LDAP attributes?

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        youssef1
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        Jun 16, 2020

        Hello,

         

        You don't have a specific documentation for your need. In fact you have to use a generic access policy for authentication and LDAP query in order to retrieve needed attribute.

         

        Then you can use an per-request-policy in order to restrict URL access by LDAP/AD GRP or other.

         

        I alread implement this need for an custoer and I use Datagroup in order to set right:

        grp_A /uri1

        grp_B /uri2

        grp_C /uri3

         

        try to implent an per-request-policy... if you encouter a problem keep me in touch.

         

        regards