Re: slapo-dynlist desgin question(s)

[Pierangelo Masarati <ando@sys-net.it>]

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:09 PM +0100 Pierangelo Masarati
> <ando@sys-net.it> wrote:
>>> access to dn.subtree="cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu"
>>> attr=suprivilegegroup
>>>     by dn.base="cn=dynlist" compare
>>
>>
>> After ITS#4806 enhancement, "compare" would be enough, if the proxy ID
>> is implemented.  At this point, the proxy ID could be contained in the
>> entry itself, to allow more granular, data driven identity selection.  A
>> mechanism like authzFrom could be used to select who's authorized to
>> assume the proxy ID and thus to get to override access rule to the
>> hidden data.  Something like:
>>
>>     <dynamic group>: <static members>, (<dynamic members> + <authzFrom>)
>>
>> when reading <dynamic group>, static members undergo usual ACLs; dynamic
>> members undergo usual ACLs for their direct access; plus, if the
>> client's identity complies with the <authzFrom> rule, the <dynamic
>> group> identity is assumed to perform dynamic group expansion, otherwise
>> the client's identity is used.
>>
>> To simplify things, we could well recycle authzFrom to check if the
>> client is authorized to use the dynamic group's identity, and, in case,
>> let the client assume the privileged identity by using the dynamic
>> group's DN.
>>
>> Or, we could define /configurable) dynamic group specific attrs that
>> implement the dynamic group's identity (groupManager?) and authorization
>> rules (groupAuthzFrom?; groupAuthzTo would make sense as well; it could
>> be used to check if a dynamic group is allowed to let a user assume the
>> privileged identity when accessing a certain datum, the "to" of
>> groupAuthzTo).
> 
> 
> I guess my issue here, is that I want the proxy ID to not be associated
> with the client's ID at all.  I simply want a way to have the dynamic
> group to use the ACL's to decide whether or not the client has read or
> compare to the membership list, and if it does, then to use an internal
> identity that knows nothing about the client itself to do the compare or
> membership generation as necessary.  So I guess the second solution
> would work best in that case?

Well, mine was basically a suggestion to make things more finely
tunable; of course, a safe default would be, for example, if no dynamic
group exploitation authorization were defined, to allow users to use the
dynlist and to deny anonymous.  The latter could be enabled by setting
groupAuthzFrom to "*" (shortcut for "dn.regex:.*").

So, in the end you would have what you need, while the feature could be
restricted as needed.

p.