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Configuring permissions for SCIM 2.0 operations

About this task

This example shows how to correctly configure permissions so POST requests with the "userAdd" scope will succeed. This example assumes that you have set up an LDAP mapping SCIM 2.0 Resource Type for the inetOrgPerson objectclass (see Configuring an LDAP Mapping SCIM 2.0 resource type).

Steps

  1. If the SCIM Resource Type being targeted already has a value for the create-dn-pattern property, skip to step 2. Otherwise, the following dsconfig command can be used:

    dsconfig set-scim-resource-type-prop \
  --type-name Users \
  --set create-dn-pattern:entryUUID=generated,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com

  2. Send the following request to the SCIM /Users endpoint:

    curl -k -X POST \
  https://localhost:8443/scim/v2/Users/ \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {"active":true}' \
  -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
  --data '{"username":"user.test", "name":{"formatted":"Test",
"familyName":"User"}, "schemas":["urn:pingidentity:schemas:User:1.0"]}'

    The response from the server should have a status of 403 and contain a correlation ID, similar to the following:

    {
  "schemas":["urn:ietf:params:scim:api:messages:2.0:Error"],
  "status":"403",
  "detail":"Request failed:
correlationID='faa707b3-5d48-42e6-9e78-2c8dbb1e2cac'"
}

    This is the expected response since this SCIM request does not have the permission needed to write to an entry. See Troubleshoot the SCIM 2.0 servlet extension for instructions on viewing the full server error message.

  3. An ACI should now be added to the ou=People,dc=example,dc=com subtree. This will grant permission to add entries to the said subtree as long as the SCIM request includes the ‘userAdd’ scope. This can be done by running the following ldapmodify command. Note that this ACI does not grant write access to attributes, which means modify operations will fail. You can find more information about configuring ACIs in Overview of access control.

    $ ldapmodify
dn:ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
changetype:modify
add:aci
aci:(version 3.0; acl "ACI for userAdd scope"; allow (add)
oauthscope="userAdd";)

  4. Send the POST request to the SCIM /Users endpoint again, this time including the userAdd scope in the bearer token:

    curl -k -X POST \
https://localhost:8443/scim/v2/Users \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer {"active":true, "scope":"userAdd"}' \
-H 'Content-type: application/json' \
--data '{"username":"user.test", "name":{"formatted":"Test",
"familyName":"User"}, "schemas":["urn:pingidentity:schemas:User:1.0"]}'

    The response from the server should now contain the created SCIM resource, which should also contain values for the name and username attributes, similar to the following:

    {
"name":{
"familyName":"User",
"formatted":"Test"
},
"username":"user.test",
"id":"6f9a89b8-e766-478c-9667-def049daf6bc",
"meta":{
"resourceType":"Users",
"location":"https://localhost:8443/scim/v2/Users/6f9a89b8-e766-478c-9667-def
049daf6bc"
},
"schemas":["urn:pingidentity:schemas:User:1.0"]
}