Re: Access control in slapd (was Re: no more direct support ACIs?)

[Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski <raphael.ouazana@linagora.com>]

On Ven 9 décembre 2005 16:54, Raphaël Ouazana-Sustowski wrote:
> On Ven 9 décembre 2005 16:43, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>
>> Let me stress that, as I wrote in the initial message, ACIs will remain
>> part of slapd; only, they have already been factored out of access
>> control code, and they likely will move into a run-time loaded module,
>> but the original functionality will be fully preserved.
>
> As we are working on an other access control for slapd, I have some
> questions about that:
> - when you say "a run-time loaded module" do you mean a module as in
> contrib/slapd-modules or an overlay?
> - in the first case do you think it is possible to make an overlay which
> does access control or is there any technical reason that prevent doing
> that ?

Oups...  I would have read your FAQ entry before posting that...  So it
seems that ACIs are really implemented in an overlay.  I badly remembered
a discussion that said that it was not possible.

Raphael Ouazana.