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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Instana
Categories Access Control
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 8, 2024

RELATED IDEAS

True additive group scopes

Currently the group membership model is complicated, and counter-intuititve.
If Group A is Access all, and Group B is no access to -say- Infrastructure, a user joining Group A would have full access.
If they were to later join Group B, they would actually lose access to Infrastructure!

Converting access model into an IAM-style additive model, it would have that groups would only add permissions.

Idea priority High
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    |     Jul 17, 2024

    While this is something we are pursuing as part of a larger initiative, due to its dependencies and implications, there is currently no clear ETA. As such IBM has evaluated the request and has determined that it cannot be implemented at this time or does not align with our current strategy or roadmap.


    In 12 months, you will receive a notification that you can resubmit this request for consideration.


    Thank you for bringing your ideas to us. If you have any additional feedback, thoughts or ideas, or if there is anything else I can do, please do not hesitate to reply to this message to continue the conversation.

  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    |     May 8, 2024

    Updated the Idea title to "scopes" instead of "permissions", as permissions are being added from multiple group memberships over the entirety of the scope of the user.

  • Admin
    Máté Návay
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    |     May 8, 2024

    This is a known limitation currently and we're validating the impact on existing users before we can change this behavior.
    Assuming that we don't find a huge amount of users who would gain potentially unintended access to data due to a change in our system, we're planning to make the "Access All" scope additive over "No access" and "Limited Access" later this year.

    Please note currently "Limited access" is additive over "No access" or other "Limited access" scopes defined, as is documented in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=instana-managing-user-access#precedence-of-access-and-permissions-between-groups

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