PUT Security Roles

The PUT /Security/Roles method is used to update a security role in Keyfactor Command including the permissions set for the role and the security identities mapped to the role. This method returns HTTP 200 OK on a success with the details of the security role.

Tip: The following permissions (see Security Roles and Claims) are required to use this feature:

/security/modify/

The user must hold a role containing this permission in the Global Permission Set (see Permission Sets).

Important: Any previously populated fields that are not submitted with their full existing data using this method will be cleared of their existing data. When using this method, you should first do a GET to retrieve all the values for the record you want to update, enter corrected data into the field(s) you want to update, and then submit all the fields using PUT, including the fields that contain values but which you are not changing.

This method has two available versions. Keyfactor strongly recommends using the newer method when possible; the v1 method has been deprecated since it supports Active Directory identities only. The v2 method has been redesigned to provide support for alternate identity providers and the newer claims-based authentication model that accompanies this. This version of the method supports both Active Directory and other identity providers. For more information about versioning, see Versioning.

Version 2

Version 1

Version 2 of the PUT /Security/Roles method has been redesigned to provide support for alternate identity providers and the newer claims-based authentication model that accompanies this. All new development should use this version.

Table 706: PUT Security Roles v2 Input Parameters

Name

Description

Body

Required. An integer containing the Keyfactor Command identifier for the security role.

Use the GET /Security/Roles method (see GET Security Roles) to retrieve a list of all the security roles to determine the role's ID.

Name Body Required. A string containing the short reference name for the security role.

Description Body Required. A string containing the description for the security role.

EmailAddress Body A string containing an email address for the role. This address can be used from workflows to direct email messages to the owner of certificates for uses such as certificate expiration alerts (assuming the certificate owner for the certificates, a security role, has been populated)

Permission SetId

Body

A string containing the Keyfactor Command reference GUID of the permission set to which the role is assigned (see Permission Sets).

Tip: For details of the permissions associated with the role, use the GET /SecurityRoles/{id} method (see GET Security Roles ID) for the desired role. For details of the permissions associated withe the permission set to which the role belongs, use GET /PermissionSets/{id} method (see GET Permission Sets ID) using this permission set GUID. A role may be only granted a subset of the permissions available in a permission set.

Permissions

Body

An array of strings containing the permissions assigned to the role in a comma-separated list of Name:Value pairs. See Version Two Permission Model for an overview of the possible permissions.

For example:

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"Permissions": [  
   "/portal/read/",
   "/dashboard/read/",
   "/certificates/collections/metadata/modify/6/",
   "/certificates/collections/private_key/read/6/"
],

Claims

Body

An array of objects containing the claims associated with the role. Show claim details.

Name

Description

Required. A string indicating a description for the security claim.

Claim Type

Required. A string indicating the type of claim. Show claim type details.

Claim Type Integer	Claim Type String	Description
0	User	Active Directory user account
1	Group	Active Directory group.
2	Computer	Active Directory machine account
3	OAuth Oid	An open authorization claim of a type not covered by client, role or subject
4	OAuth Role	An open authorization group claim
5	OAuth Subject	An open authorization user claim
6	OAuth ClientId	An open authorization client application claim

Claim Value

Required. A string containing the identifying information for the entity specified in the claim. For Active Directory users and groups, this will be in the form DOMAIN\user or group name (e.g. KEYEXAMPLE\PKI Administrators). For Active Directory computers, this will be in the form of a machine account (e.g. KEYEXAMPLE\MyServer$).

Provider Authentication Scheme

A string indicating the provider authentication scheme (e.g. Active Directory, or Client Certificate Authentication CA, or unknown).

Table 707: PUT Security Roles v2 Response Data

Name Description

An integer containing the Keyfactor Command identifier for the security role.

Name A string containing the short reference name for the security role.

Description A string containing the description for the security role.

EmailAddress A string containing an email address for the role. This address can be used from workflows to direct email messages to the owner of certificates for uses such as certificate expiration alerts (assuming the certificate owner for the certificates, a security role, has been populated)

Immutable A Boolean indicating if the role is immutable or not. Only the built-in Administrators role is considered immutable. The value of this parameter cannot be changed.

Permission SetId

A string containing the Keyfactor Command reference GUID of the permission set to which the role is assigned (see Permission Sets).

Permissions

An array of strings containing the permissions assigned to the role in a comma-separated list of Name:Value pairs. See Version Two Permission Model for an overview of the possible permissions.

For example:

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"Permissions": [  
   "/portal/read/",
   "/dashboard/read/",
   "/certificates/collections/metadata/modify/6/",
   "/certificates/collections/private_key/read/6/"
],

Claims

An array of objects containing the claims associated with the role. Show claim details.

Name

Description

An integer containing the Keyfactor Command reference ID for the security claim.

Description

A string indicating a description for the security claim.

Claim Type

A string indicating the type of claim. Show claim type details.

Claim Type Integer	Claim Type String	Description
0	User	Active Directory user account
1	Group	Active Directory group.
2	Computer	Active Directory machine account
3	OAuth Oid	An open authorization claim of a type not covered by client, role or subject
4	OAuth Role	An open authorization group claim
5	OAuth Subject	An open authorization user claim
6	OAuth ClientId	An open authorization client application claim

Claim Value

A string containing the identifying information for the entity specified in the claim. For Active Directory users and groups, this will be in the form DOMAIN\user or group name (e.g. KEYEXAMPLE\PKI Administrators). For Active Directory computers, this will be in the form of a machine account (e.g. KEYEXAMPLE\MyServer$).

Provider

An object containing information about the provider assigned to the security claim. Show authentication provider details.

Name	Description
Id	A string indicating the Keyfactor Command reference GUID for the provider.
Authentication Scheme	A string indicating the provider auth scheme (e.g. Active Directory, or Client Certificate Authentication CA, or unknown).
Display Name	A string containing the short reference name for the provider (e.g. Active Directory).

Version 1 of the PUT /Security/Roles method includes the same capabilities as version 2, but offers support for managing legacy formatted Active Directory identities only.

Important: This has been deprecated since it supports Active Directory identities only. It is retained for backwards compatibility, but all new development should use methods that provide support for alternate identity providers and the newer claims-based authentication model that accompanies this. These newer methods support both Active Directory and other identity providers. See version 2 of this method.

Table 708: PUT Security Roles v1 Input Parameters

Name In Description

Body

Required. An integer containing the Keyfactor Command identifier for the security role.

Use the GET /Security/Roles method (see GET Security Roles) to retrieve a list of all the security roles to determine the role's ID.

Name Body Required. A string containing the short reference name for the security role.

Description Body Required. A string containing the description for the security role.

Enabled

Body

A Boolean that indicates whether the security role is enabled (true) or not (false). Security roles that have been disabled cannot be assigned to security identities. The default is true.

This is considered deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

Private

Body

A Boolean that indicates whether the security role has been marked private (true) or not (false). The default is false.

This is considered deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

Permission SetId Body A string indicating the Keyfactor Command reference GUID of the permission set associated with the role (see Permission Sets).

Permissions

Body

An array of strings containing the permissions assigned to the role in a comma-separated list of Name:Value pairs. See Version One Permission Model for an overview of the possible permissions.

For example:

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"Permissions": [
   "AdminPortal:Read",
   "Dashboard:Read"
],

Identities

Body

An array of objects containing one or more identifiers for each security identity to associate with the role. Show identifier information.

Name	Description
AccountName	Required^. A string containing the account name for the security identity. For Active Directory user and groups, this will be in the form DOMAIN\\user or group name. For example: Copy `KEYEXAMPLE\\PKI Administrators` ^ One of AccountName or SID is required in order to specify an identity, but not both.
SID	Required^. A string containing the security identifier from the source identity store (e.g. Active Directory) for the security identity. ^ One of AccountName or SID is required in order to specify an identity, but not both.

For example:

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"Identities": [
   {
      "AccountName": "KEYEXAMPLE\\jsmith"
   },
   {
      "AccountName": "KEYEXAMPLE\\mjones"
   }
]

Table 709: PUT Security Roles v1 Response Data

Name Description

An integer containing the Keyfactor Command identifier for the security role.

Name A string containing the short reference name for the security role.

Description A string containing the description for the security role.

Enabled

A Boolean that indicates whether the security role is enabled (true) or not (false). Security roles that have been disabled cannot be assigned to security identities. The default is true.

This is considered deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

Immutable A Boolean that indicates whether the security role has been marked as editable (false) or not (true). Internal Keyfactor Command roles are not editable. This setting is reserved for Keyfactor Command internal use.

Valid A Boolean that indicates whether the security role's audit XML is valid (true) or not (false). A security role may become invalid if Keyfactor Command determines that it appears to have been tampered with. This setting is not end-user configurable.

Private

A Boolean that indicates whether the security role has been marked private (true) or not (false). The default is false.

This is considered deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

Permission SetId A string indicating the Keyfactor Command reference GUID of the permission set associated with the role (see Permission Sets).

Identities

An array of objects containing information about the security identities assigned to the security role. Show identity details.

Name	Description
Id	An integer containing the Keyfactor Command identifier for the security identity.
Account Name	A string containing the account name for the security identity. For Active Directory users and groups, this will be in the form DOMAIN\\user or group name. For example: KEYEXAMPLE\\PKI Administrators
Identity Type	A string indicating the type of identity—User or Group.
SID	A string containing the security identifier from the source identity store (e.g. Active Directory) for the security identity.

Permissions

An array of strings containing the permissions assigned to the role in a comma-separated list of Name:Value pairs. See Version One Permission Model for an overview of the possible permissions.

For example:

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"Permissions": [
   "AdminPortal:Read",
   "Dashboard:Read"
],

Tip: See the Keyfactor API Reference and Utility which provides a utility through which the Keyfactor API

endpoints can be called and results returned. It is intended to be used primarily for validation, testing and workflow

development. It also serves secondarily as documentation for the API. The link to the Keyfactor API Reference and Utility is in the dropdown from the help icon (

) at the top of the Management Portal page next to the Log Out button.

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