RE: About ACL

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Pierangelo
> Masarati

> ludovico.basili@poste.it writes: 
> 
> > Hello,
> > I have already wroten a message, but I think I couldn't 
> > explain my problem clearly.
> > I would like to define an ACL that permits to a user 
> > defined in a position in the tree to read only a subtree 
> > whose root position depends on the position of the user.
> > For example, if the user is 
> > cn=foo,ou=People,o=XYZ
> > he can read everywhere under
> > ou=People,o=XYZ
> > If the user is 
> > cn=me,ou=Something,ou=People,o=XYZ
> > he can read everywhere under
> > ou=Something,ou=People,o=XYZ
> > The users are added/removed by my application at runtime, 
> > so I would like to have the privileges been assigned to new 
> > users without restarting slapd. Is it possible ? 
> >
> 
> try something like 
> 
> access to dn=".+,ou=([^,]+),ou=People,o=XYZ"
> 	by dn="cn=[^,]+,ou=$1,ou=People,o=XYZ" read 

In the original example there are users at multiple depths in the ou=
hierarchy. To get all that in a single rule, try this:

  access to dn=".+,ou=(.+),o=XYZ"
	by dn="cn=[^,]+,ou=$1,o=XYZ

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