Hi Anton,

 

Based on your case, I built up the following settings:

 

1.       Be understood the “User” in OTRS is actually Agent not Customer. 

2.       Went to Sysconfig -> Frontend::Customer , enable
“CustomerGroupSupport” and Delete the default value (Users, Info) from the
“CustomerGroupAlwaysGroups”. This way the customers are not longer in the
same group unless you set up another common group for them.

3.       Created test1, test2 as 2 customers with same customer ID, created
CustomerSubmit1, CustomerSubmit2 as 2 Queues. Created TestGroup1, TestGroup2
as 2 test groups. 

4.       Assigned test1 to TestGroup1 and has read and write rights,
assigned test1 to TestGroup2 and has read rights only. Assigned test2 to
TestGroup2 and has rights to read and write. 

5.       Assigned test1 to queue CustomerSubmit1, assigned test2 to queue
CustomerSubmit2.

6.       Now, user test2 can not read user test1’s tickets, despite they
are under the same CustomerID. 

 

Jack

 

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From: Anton Gubar'kov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 2008年11月11日 11:36 AM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: Re: [otrs] company tickets access control

 

Colleagues, I'm sorry for putting so much confusion into the case. 

 I'm an IT service provider for company Acme. I support Acme's ERP system.
 My agents are trustworthy.
 Acme has users Ann and Mallory. Ann is a financial controller. Mallory is
salesman.
 Mallory wants to hijack Ann's privilege to release credit blocked orders in
Acme's ERP to satisfy his customer with credit block..
 Mallory tries to login 5 times using Ann's user id and causes it to lock.
 Mallory starts to watch Company tickets waiting for Ann to raise a password
reset request with me.
 Ann raises a password reset request.
Mallory continues watching waiting for the new password to appear on Ann's
ticket.
Before Ann has a chance to change her new password, Mallory logs in as Ann
and releases the blocked order.

 I want to control an access to tickets from my customer's users. Can you
suggest a way to resolve this case?



2008/11/11 Jie(Jack) Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Sorry Anton, I do not quite understand what the point is.

 

Suppose you have the rights to reset a password for a user. Don't you have
the rights to do the search on this user and relatives?

This is the problem you trust your agent or not.

 

I think the access control is quite advanced in OTRS. You have Role and
Group. You can create a role and put groups in it. Then add the role to the
users.

 

If you want, you can put different companies into different groups and only
set the agent on the groups they are responsible to. This way could narrow
down the risk?

In this way, you even can set each user in each group. :)

 

Regards,

Jack

 

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From: Anton Gubar'kov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 2008年11月10日 14:41 PM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.
Subject: [otrs] company tickets access control

 

Hello, list.

I've come across a problem I can't overcome. 
Suppose I have a request to reset a password on some account for a user due
to account locked or password forgotten. I thought I could communicate the
new password to a user using external-email or external-note article. But it
is really too dangerous to do that!

The whole company tickets collection is searchable! I could find no way
control access to the tickets in one CustomerID except one using queues. The
queues are used for different purpose usually. 
The alternative is to quit using CustomerID and treat every  user as
individual customer. This is not convenient either as some bosses at
customers want to watch the requests of their subordinates.

This is the simplest example that comes to mind. There is a lot more
sensitive information circulating in the process of IT Service Delivery that
should not be shared across entire customer.

I would be grateful for suggestions to solve this security issue.

Regards,
Anton Gubarkov.


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