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Re: acl only in slapd.conf



I would like to know how you do the following with ACLs:

I have two groups:

dc: cn=group admins,dc=my,dc=domain
dn: cn=group,dc=my,dc=domain

I have defined the owner of cn=group,dc=my,dc=domain to cn=group admins,dc=my,dc=domain.

How do I use the value of the owner attribute to grant access to members of group cn=group admins,dc=my,dc=domain?

The dnattr on seems to work for access to the SAME entry. So I can't using the dnattr. The best I have been able to come up with was from a VERY old faq entry at the openldap home page (which could use some improvements on it's regex expressions):

access to dn="cn=([^,]+),dc=my,dc=domain" attrs=uniquemember by group/groupofuniquenames/uniquemember="cn=$1 admins,dc=my,dc=domain" write

This works, but only lets this admin group manage this SINGLE other group. I would really like to use the owner attribute, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. This is on a test OpenLDAP server 2.0cvs, which is my first priority to get working. Once it is working, I am interested in applying the same thing to older 1.2.11 servers (until 2.0 is considered 'released').

Could we use the experimental support for in-directory ACL in 2.0cvs to do this? If so, how do you use this? I have reviewed the admin guide for 2.0, and it doesn't mention anything about it.

Just looking for some cookbook approaches. Obviously, I am using the enhanced group methods. It would be nice to have something similar to:

dnattr=owner/group/groupofuniquenames/uniquemember

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Tony

At 01:17 PM 8/27/00 -0700, Kurt@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
At 01:42 PM 8/27/00 +0200, Lars Kneschke wrote:
>>Is it correct that i can define acl's only in the slapd.conf?

In 1.2, yes.
2.x (currently in gamma testing) has experimental support for
in-directory access control information.

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