Roles in CzechIdM – who approves their assigning?

Identity manager helps on the field of privileges management. It can solve tasks like roles evidence and distribution or role assignment to users. Another benefit of identity manager is that role assignment can usually be driven by workflow and user tasks. How does it work in CzechIdM, you will find out in the article.

Role entity

CzechIdM is RBAC identity manager, it means that CzechIdM restricts user’s access to managed systems by sets of permissions. In CzechIdM every permission or set of permissions (no metter if  CzechIdM or managed system) is represented by entity called Role. From the CzechIdM point of view there is no difference: the user has specific right in managed system, is a member of group of users (AD/LDAP) or has account with basic access. It is always role, that represent it in CzechIdM.

This paradigm is really effective and easy to understand. It allows IdM to apply general rules for roles management and distribution like automatic rolesroles requests approvalsynchronization and provisioning.

Role approval

Access to resources managed by identity manager should be always a subject to approval. The question always is, who approve it and what happen if the approval is done in several rounds?

CzechIdM offers standard approval workflow for role assignment approval.

Role change request

When somebody (user/administrator/user’s manager) asks for role change. CzechIdM process this wish as a request. This request is a subject to approval. Standard role has several consecutive rounds:

  1. Helpdesk
  2. User manager
  3. Manager
  4. Role defined approval
  5. Security

#1 Helpdesk and #2 User manager are groups of users each one defined in CzechIdM configuration. #3 Manager is the current manager of the user determined by their contracted position. #5 Security is again a group of users defined in application. All of those steps can be turned off in application configuration, so you can e.g. setup the IdM that roles are approved only by #3 round – Manager, all other rounds are skipped.

#4 round is a little bit more complex

Role defined approval

When the approval workflow get to the #4 round, it is devided into approval tasks per each role of the request. So if there were 4 roles in a request that should be assigned to the user, in this round every role is approved separately.

This principal allows us to apply approval mechanism specific to every role. In other words, in CzechIdM you can specify approvals of every role in CzechIdM. Lets say, you have 2 types of roles:

In the example above only critical roles are approved in round #4.

Request resolution

When all tasks are resolved (either approved or denied) in round #4, the request is processed again as whole in round #5. When security approves the request, all changes in the request are applied and the user is notified about the change.

Enhanced approval

Approval task has many improvements:

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More details about role approval in CzechIdM can be found in Administrator’s guide. If you have any questions or comment, feel free to comment on redmine, github or email me on info@bcvsolutions.eu. Also join our google group to keep in touch with CzechIdM news.

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