I also faced this problem before. A common solution is to prefix the roles
with the application name like: mail_admin, web_admin or similar.

Are there other solutions/best practices to the problem that the roles
often depend on the application or realm?
Christian


2013/4/29 Oliver Wulff <[email protected]>

>   Hi there
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> In our environment each application has its own roles assigned. Which
> means you might have the ADMIN role for application A but not for
> application B. Does Syncope already support this functionality? Or might it
> be supported in the future?
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> To map this to LDAP, global (application/realm independent) roles could be
> defined in the entry "ou=groups" whereas application specific roles are
> defined in the entry "ou=<application id>,ou=groups,...".
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> What do you think?
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> Thanks
>
> Oli
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