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Re: Preference for editing ACLs



On Fri, 14 May 2004 at 2:42pm, adp wrote:

> The suggestion from you and Frank on keeping the ACLs in sync will work
> perfectly.
>
> Still curious if there are any web-based ACL editors out there.

There was a proposal that went around (on openldap-devel I think)
several months ago that would make ACL's updateable via ldapmodify, I
think it was called the "config backend".  I'm not sure what has
happened to that.

F

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel van Eeden" <daniel_e@dds.nl>
> To: "adp" <dap99@i-55.com>
> Cc: <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 2:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Preference for editing ACLs
>
>
> > split your slapd.conf in multiple files and use include or cat slapd.d/*
> > > ./slapd.conf or something like that.
> > Then it's posible to use rsync or scp to copy files.
> >
> > Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>
> >
> > On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 20:10, adp wrote:
> > > And a further complication is that we have a slave openldap server as a
> > > backup. I'm curious if anyone has worked on centralizing ACL management
> so
> > > that we can edit once and not worry about copying changes to slapd.conf
> on
> > > the slave server each time.
> > >
> > > Just a thought. :)
> > >
> > > > Editing slapd ACLs isn't necessarily hard, but I am interested in
> making
> > > > this easier on administrators. Are there any preferences/suggestions
> for
> > > ACL
> > > > editors out there? If we have to use a package that manages all of
> > > openldap
> > > > that's fine too, but my main goal is editing ACLs.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > --
> > Daniel van Eeden <daniel_e@dds.nl>  http://compukid.no-ip.org/
> > jabber: compukid@jabber.org   aim: Compukid128   icq: 36952189
> >
> >
>

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