Shell Connector Introduction Description Linux Connector could manage a lot of services running on Linux systems (either 32 or 64 bits). Managed System This connector has implemented several ways to communicate with services on Linux, below, the list of those services: Shell SSH Cisco ASA Exchange Power Shell If your system is not in the previous list, it's possible to include it easily! For more information to check if your system may be synchronized with this connector you do not hesitate to contact us through our  Contact form Prerequisites A Soffid Synchronization Server must be installed on the managed Linux system. Download and Install This addon is located in the Connectors section and its name is Shell Connector. For more information about the installation process you can visit the Addons Getting started page. Agent Configuration Basic Generic parameters After the installation of the addon, you may create and configure agent instances. To configure this Shell Connector you could select one agent, from the next list of available agents, in the attribute "Type" of the generic parameters section in the agents' page configuration. Shell Agent SSH Agent Cisco ASA Agent Exchange Agent Power Shell Agent For more information about how you may configure the generic parameters of the agent, see the following link:  Agents configuration Custom parameters Below, there are the specific parameters for each agent implementation. Shell Agent Parameter Description Shell Shell to assign to new users Persistent Two options [ Yes , No ]. Prompt Password hash algorithm For instance SHA1, SHA-256 Password hash prefix For instance SHA Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log SSH Agent Parameter Description User name User Linux for the SSH connection SSH Key file (optional) SSH Key (optional) Password The password of the user Linux Server Host or IP of the server for the SSH connection Password hash algorithm For instance SHA1, SHA-256 Password hash prefix For instance SHA Charset For instance: UTF-8 Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log Cisco ASA Agent Parameter Description User name User Linux Key file (optional) Password The password of the user Linux Privileged password Server Host or IP of the server Charset For instance: UTF-8 Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log Exchange Agent Parameter Description User name Exchange user (with administrator permissions) Password The password of the exchange user Exchange server PS script (RemoteExchange.ps1 / exshell.psc1) For instance "E:\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Bin\exshell.psc1" Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log Exchange version Options: [ 2007 | 2010+ ] Power Shell Agent Parameter Description Startup script Password hash algorithm For instance SHA1, SHA-256 Password hash prefix For instance SHA Enable debug Two options: [ Yes / No ]. When it is enabled more log traces are printed in the Synchronization Server log Attribute mapping This connector could manage Users, Groups and Roles. Users Any user or account will be created at /etc/passwd file. Home directories will be created using default Linux configuration properties. If stated, samba users will be mapped for each managed Linux user. Soffid passwords expiration date will be managed by Soffid. So, Linux won't be notified about when those passwords need to be expired. Groups Groups will be created and removed as Linux groups. Roles Roles bound to this system will be created as Linux groups. Any removed role will trigger the bound Linux group to be removed. Properties You can map user, groups and role objects. These are some of the properties to be mapped in those objects: Property Description check fgrep $user /etc/passwd delete userdel $user insert useradd $user selectAll cat /etc/passwd selectAllParse ([^:]*):[^\n]* selectByAccountName fgrep $user /etc/passwd selectByAccountNameParse ([^:]*):[^\n]* update usermod $user updatePassword - validatePassword - For the "Cisco ASA Agent" has these attributes: Property Description check show run user $user checkAttributes user level checkParse username ([^ ]+) password.*privilege (\d+)\r\n delete no username $user insert username $user password $password encrypted privilege $level selectAll show run user selectAllAttributes user level selectAllParse username ([^ ]+) password.*privilege (\d+)\r\n selectByAccountName show run user selectByAccountNameParse username ([^ ]+) password.*privilege (\d+)\r\n selectByAccountNamelAttributes user level update username $user password $password encrypted privilege $level updatePassword username $user password $password encrypted privilege $level The "Exchange Agent" has these attributes: Property Description check fgrep $user /etc/passwd delete userdel $user insert New-Mailbox -UserPrincipalName "${UserPrincipalName}" -Name "Shell plugin" -Alias "${Alias}" -Room selectAll Get-Mailbox selectByAccountName Get-Mailbox "Shell plugin" update usermod $user updatePassword - validatePassword - Attributes You can customize attribute mappings, you only need to select system objects and the Soffid objects related, manage their attributes, and make either inbound and outbound attribute mappings. You can map user, groups and role objects. These are some of the attributes to be mapped in those objects: System attribute Description user accountName this{"1"} accountName The "Cisco ASA Agent" has these attributes: System attribute Description level attributes{"level"} user accountName password password For more information about how you may configure attribute mapping, see the following link:  Soffid Attribute Mapping Reference For instance: Triggers You can define BeanShell scripts that will be triggered when data is loaded into the target system (outgoing triggers). The trigger result will be a boolean value, true to continue or false to stop. Triggers can be used to validate or perform a specific action just before performing an operation or just after performing an operation on target objects.  "Cisco ASA Agent" has not implemented this feature. To view some examples, visit the  Outgoing triggers examples page . Load triggers You can define BeanShell scripts that will be triggered when data is loaded into Soffid (incoming triggers). The trigger result will be a boolean value, true to continue or false to stop. Triggers can be used to validate or perform a specific action just before performing an operation or just after performing an operation into Soffid objects.  To view some examples, visit the  Incoming triggers examples page. Account metadata Agents allow you to create additional data, on the "Account metadata" tab, to customize the accounts created for that agent. This additional information will be loaded with the agent's information, or calculated as defined in the mappings. The additional data can be used in both mappings and triggers. The attributes which you define here will be shown when you click on the proper account, on the Accounts Tabs at user page. Operational Monitoring After the agent configuration you could check in the monitoring page if the service is running in the Synchronization Server, please go to: Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Syscserver monitoring Tasks Authoritative If you are checked "Authorized identity source", an automatic task to load identities from the managed system to Soffid is available, please go to: Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Scheduled tasks And you will something like "Import authoritative data from ". Reconcile If you are configured the "Attribute Mapping" tab with some of our objects: "user, account, role, group or grant", an automatic task to synchronize these objects from the managed system to Soffid is available, please go to: Start Menu > Administration > Monitoring and reporting > Scheduled tasks And you will do something like "Reconcile all accounts from ". Synchronization Regarding the synchronization of the objects, there are two possible options: If you are checked the generic attribute "Read Only" in the "Basics" tab, only the changes in the managed systems will be updated in Soffid. We recommend these options until the global configuration of Soffid will be tested. If you are not checked the generic attribute "Read Only" in the "Basics" tab, all the changes in Soffid or the managed system will be updated in the other. Note that this synchronization must be configured in the "Attribute mapping" tab correctly. For more information about how you may configure the generic parameters of the agent, see the following link: Agents configuration