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Nick Couchman commented on GUACAMOLE-715:
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[~dchuha]: I can confirm two things about my setup (just double-checked them):
* The guacadmin user is not a member of any groups at all, JDBC or otherwise 
(guacadmin does not exist in LDAP, etc.).
* The group that I created in JDBC to match my LDAP group does not have any 
JDBC members at all (when you view it in the Admin UI, it shows no members - 
users or other groups).

I'll take a closer look at your log files, and see if I can set up something to 
reproduce the issue you're seeing.  Not entirely sure how quickly I'll be able 
to do it, but I'll give it a shot.

> Permission management based on LDAP groups not working as documented
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>
>                 Key: GUACAMOLE-715
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GUACAMOLE-715
>             Project: Guacamole
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: guacamole-auth-jdbc-mysql, guacamole-auth-ldap
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.0
>         Environment: I'm running guacamole in a docker environment using the 
> official base images and a MySQL database. Users are authenticated against an 
> Active Directory server in combination with the MySQL database.
>            Reporter: Micha Kohl
>            Assignee: Nick Couchman
>            Priority: Major
>             Fix For: 1.1.0
>
>
> From the documentation on user groups in 1.0.0 I expected to be able to 
> manage user permissions via LDAP groups like this (using LDAP for 
> authentication and MySQL for configuration management as documented 
> [here|https://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ldap-auth.html#ldap-and-database]):
>  # Create user group in MySQL with the name of a corresponding user group in 
> the LDAP directory 
>  # Create connection in MySQL 
>  # Grant connection permission to the user group created in 1.
>  # LDAP users that are part of the LDAP group (in the directory) are able to 
> log in with their LDAP credentials and access that connection
> This does not work at all (the user does not even see the connection). In my 
> attempt to narrow down the problem and ensure that I'm not just doing it 
> wrong, I tested the following scenarios:
>  # _Having just the LDAP group be mirrored in MySQL by creating an_ 
> _identically named one there_
>  -> Login succeeds, but no associated connections are shown.
>  # _Having both the LDAP group and the user be mirrored in MySQL by creating_ 
> _identically named entities there without manually linking the two (MySQL 
> user is not part of MySQL user group)_
>  -> Login succeeds and guacamole tries to auto-connect to the only available 
> connection/shows all available connections and fails when trying to connect 
> with a permission error.
>  # _Having both the LDAP group and the user be mirrored in MySQL by creating_ 
> _identically named entities there and manually adding the MySQL user to the_ 
> _MySQL group_ _(MySQL user is part of MySQL user group)_
>  -> Connections are established successfully.
> Either there seems to be a big misunderstanding regarding the way the new 
> group system is supposed to work with LDAP, or there's something going wrong 
>  here. It goes without saying that scenario 3 completely eliminates the 
> purpose of relying on existing LDAP groups. Scenario 1 is the configuration I 
> outlined above that would allow managing connections based on LDAP groups 
> without having to create any MySQL users whatsoever. Scenario 2 in 
> combination with similar reports on the mailing list led me to believe that 
> this is either based on a common misconception or there's a bug.
> Side-Note: While it has been suggested that this is already covered by 
> GUACAMOLE-696, I think this could only be said if this turns out to be 
> expected but poorly documented behavior. 



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