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Status Submitted
Workspace Cloud Pak for Data
Created by Guest
Created on May 12, 2026

Make CPD vault secret sharing dynamic when using a group

On Cloud-Pak-for-Data (CPD), an existing internal vault's secret is shared with other CPD users via a group (e.g. CPD shadow group that is linked to an OIDC IDP group)

When a new user is added to this group (on the IDP), the vault secret is still not accessible to the new user.

If the group is removed from vault secret's share and then re-applied, only then is the group's complete membership (including new user) allowed access to the vault secret via the share.

It "appears" that a vault secret's share is provisioned individually to group member that exist in the group only during initial provisioning of the group.

The enhancement request is to read the group membership dynamically each time access to a vault secret is requested by a CPD user.

This will benefit CPD instance administrators when adding new users to existing groups where that group is already used by an existing vault secret for sharing purposes.   The CPD instance administrator only needs to add the new users to group membership and not remember to re-apply the group to various internal vault secret's shares.

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