Dynamic groups and nested group support

Dynamic groups contain a group name and membership criteria:

• The group membership information is as current as the information on the user object.

• Manually maintaining members on the group object is not necessary.

• Dynamic groups are designed such that an application does not need a large amount of information from the directory to find out if someone is a member of a group.

Nested groups enable the creation of hierarchical relationships that are used to define inherited group membership. A nested group is defined as a child group entry whose distinguished name (DN) is referenced by a parent group entry attribute.

Dynamic and nested groups simplify WebSphere Application Server security management and increase its effectiveness and flexibility. You only need to assign a larger parent group if all nested groups share the same privilege. Assigning a role to a single parent group simplifies the runtime authorization table.

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
Dynamic groups and nested group support for the IBM Directory Server
Dynamic and nested group support for the SunONE or iPlanet Directory Server
Locating a user's group memberships in Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Configuring dynamic and nested group support for the IBM Directory Server
Configuring dynamic and nested group support for the SunONE or iPlanet Directory Server
Using specific directory servers as the LDAP server
    

 

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