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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:

Shell Connector - example.png

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 <AGENT_NAME>".

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 <AGENT_NAME>".

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


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