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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 particu...
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youssef1
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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

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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

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    youssef1
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    Jun 15, 2020

    Hi,

     

    First of would you check authorization on IDP or SP? The best practice is to check authorization  on SP side, the IDP will return attribute to SP then SP will manage authorization.

     

    So you confirm that your SP is hosted on F5?

     

    regards

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    Manoj_Chavali
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    Jun 15, 2020

    Hi

    I don’t think you understood the question. I want to implement the attribute-based authorization on the SP side which is the F5 APM and not on the protected application. For example, if there are two resources abc.html and def.html, where abc.html can only be accessed by the directors and def.html can be accessed by developers. Can we implement this kind of access control using F5 Big-IP APM? If so, could you please point me towards the related document?

    Regards