Can we create a user group incluing another set of mapped user group from AD?

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Can we create a user group incluing another set of mapped user group from AD?

L1 Bithead

Hi All,

 

We have a challenge such that, there are around 100 mapped user groups from AD and we need to add them in a single rule. Is there any way we could add those user groups to another single user group and use it in the rule?

 

Thanks!

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L7 Applicator

Hi @Udana 

You could create a custom group with which you can create a group based on an ldap filter. With this ldap filter you can create a filter with the member-of attribute to include your other groups and then use this one custom group in the security policy.

L7 Applicator

... or you create a group in active directory where you add these 100 groups to it and in the security policy rule you will then be able to use this active directory group.

Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

Hello,

This is what Remo was referring to, I think:

https://knowledgebase.paloaltonetworks.com/kCSArticleDetail?id=kA10g000000ClTp

 

I would recommend staying away from embedding groups as I have seen this cause issues in the past with various products.

Regards,

L1 Bithead

Hi All,

 

Thanks for the responses. Assume that we have a ldap group as CN=x,OU=Groups,OU=y,DC=abc,DC=com . In this case, can we filter out groups from OU level? I'm not clear about how to create the filter in that custom groups. I really appreciate if you could help me out here.

Thank you!

Hi @Udana 

As far as I know, you cannot create an ldap filter that gets all groups in a specific OU. For such a query you need to use the base DN in an ldap server profile. So in this case I recommend to create a new ldap server profile (or copy the existing one) and specify the base DN exactly as you need it to get the groups you need.

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