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Permissions and Active Directory

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Hello guys,

do you know where NAV stores the permissions (authorisation instructions) when they are assigned via Active Directory?

Surely they have to be found in some table?

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 73,696 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Hi, In NAV, you must use NAV's user groups to manage users. AD user groups will not play any role.

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    For user permissions, you can open the user card in NAV to check whether the user has been granted Super permissions.

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    Hope this helps.

    Thanks

    ZHU

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    Maddin 26 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Unfortunately, this still doesn't really help me....

    I have a user group erp-access in the active directory. I have added various users to this group.

    In NAV, these users no longer have any permissions, the card is empty, except for the "General" tab.

    Now the users open NAV and they can perform various actions.

    How does NAV know that they are now allowed to do this, although there is no assignment of permissions to users in NAV?

    This information is only in AD?

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 32,748 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    In the ordinary permission table where the permissions to any NAV object is stored. Nothing spesific there for Azure AD users.

    Azure AD is used for authentication and not for permissions. Everything around permission is handled in NAV internally.

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    Maddin 26 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Ok, but then how does NAV know that the user may or may not perform the following action. This must be stored somewhere?!

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    Maddin 26 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Ok, but then how does NAV know that the user may or may not perform the following action. This must be stored somewhere?!

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 32,748 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    You can not look at Azure AD permission in a NAV table.

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    Maddin 26 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Ok, so they are only cached at the beginning.

    And where can I see that they have been saved? I have to be able to look at that. In a table or where?

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 73,696 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Hi, just adding to Inge's reply.

    This has some updates in BC to use Azure Active Directory groups to manage environments that can be logged into.
    But that doesn't work in NAV.

    More details: https://yzhums.com/18304/

    Hope this helps as well.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 32,748 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    Only at login.

    Azure AD is not in play when the user is already logged in.

    All permissions that apply with the application is stored in the application.

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    Maddin 26 on at
    RE: Permissions and Active Directory

    In other words:

    When does NAV pull the permissions from Active Directoy?

    We work with user groups that are assigned to the individual user in AD. Where then is the information cached when the user performs an action in NAV?

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