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Re: Access Control



I just got this to work (FINALLY!!). I added:

access to attrs=userpassword
        by * auth

to the top of my access declarations. Anyone know why this is required?

Thanks,
Ryan

On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 21:27, Matty wrote:
> Howdy folks,
> 
> I have been mucking with Access Control for the past day and 1/2, and
> cannot seem to get a cn to authenticate. I created several
> contact objects, and a cn named email [1] which I want to allow
> read/write access to a specific branch of my DIT. After reading through
> the docs on www.openldap.org, I thought:
> 
> access to dn="ou=contacts,dc=dom,dc=com"         
>         by  dn="cn=email,dc=dom,dc=com"  write
> 
> would allow email to read/write to the contacts branch of the tree. When
> I run ldapsearch:
> 
> $ ldapsearch -h ldap.dom.com -LL -D 'cn=email,dc=dom,dc=com' -b
> 'ou=contacts,dc=dom,dc=com' '(cn=*)'
> 
> I get:
> 
> Bind Password:
> ldap_simple_bind_s: Insufficient access
> 
> Anyone happen to know what I am missing? I have experimented with
> various things I found on google, but so far, no luck :(
> 
> Thanks for any insight,
> Ryan
> 
> [1]
> dn: cn=email,dc=dom,dc=com
> objectClass: top
> objectClass: organizationalRole
> objectClass: simpleSecurityObject
> cn: email
> description: User allowed to update the contacts tree
> userPassword: (MD5)94cc0f2c4100623b4efc85a534b7cd2a
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