ManifoldCF authority service doesn't handle multi-domain environments
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Key: CONNECTORS-460
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-460
Project: ManifoldCF
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Active Directory authority, Authority Service
Environment: Two Active Directory domains: {{internal.com}} and
{{external.com}}
I'm indexing a Sharepoint site, where that site has permissions set
from_both_domains
Reporter: Colin Anderson
The ManifoldCF authority service doesn't handle multi-domain environments.
The authority service returns a list of SIDs for the specified user, from all
available ManifoldCF authorities, for example:
{{TOKEN:InternalAD:S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234}}
Note that the SID is prefixed with the name of the ManifoldCF authority.
Here is my setup:
Output connector: Solr
Authority connector1: Active Directory ({{internal.com}} domain), named
{{InternalAD}}
Authority connector2: Active Directory ({{external.com}} domain), named
{{ExternalAD}}
Repository connector: Sharepoint
If I set the Sharepoint repository connector to use the authority 'None (Global
Authority)', then {{allow_token_document}} will contain SIDs that are _not_
prefixed with any authority name, for example:
{{S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234}}
It is therefore not possible to get any search results, because the authority
service tokens will not match the stored tokens (because they _are_ prefixed
with authority names).
If I set the Sharepoint repository connector to use one of the AD authorities
'InternalAD', then {{allow_token_document}} will contain SIDs that are prefixed
with 'InternalAD', for example:
{{TOKEN:InternalAD:S-1-5-21-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234}}
However, the prefix is _always_ 'InternalAD', even if the user/group actually
belongs to the {{external.com}} domain. Therefore it is not possible for users
in the {{external.com}} domain to get any search results, because the authority
service tokens will not match the stored tokens.
In essence, there seems to be a mismatch between the tokens that the authority
service outputs, and those that repository connectors output.
Perhaps one solution would be to use the authority 'None (Global Authority)',
and modify the authority service to take an extra query parameter that prevents
it from prefixing SIDs with the authority name.
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