What is a one sentence summary of your feature request?
Enable management of the groups that are part of Authorized Groups list
Please describe your idea in detail. What is your problem, why do you feel this idea is the best solution, etc.
Hi Team,
We would like to propose an enhancement feature for authorized groups config.
If the authorized groups feature discovers groups in the inventory, it marks those groups as persistent on the server as per current implementation. Because of this, for any group that are not onHost but present in the config and server inventory, gets added to the server and marked persistent upon subsequent scan. We are receiving requests from users to remove such groups from the server for which we will have to update the config by removing that particular group and then try removing from the server and revert back the authorized group list as final step.
To avoid these additional requests and manual work involved here, we would like to enhance this feature to check if the group is onHost before attempting to mark it persistent.
Also currently the group which are part of Authorized groups cannot be updated or managed. The enhancement can also include the options to remove the group from inventory and host.
This way, we can avoid groups offHost or specific server owners who don’t require certain groups from being added to the server with persistent access. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thanks!
How do you currently solve the challenges you have by not having this feature?
Remove the group from the Authorized Groups list, followed by removing it from the Admin List and then scanning the server couple of times. Finally add the group back to the Authorized Groups list.