Re: ACL Issues

[Troy Knabe <knabe@4j.lane.edu>]

On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Dieter Kluenter wrote:

> Am Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:37:24 -0800
> schrieb Troy Knabe <knabe@4j.lane.edu>:
> 
>> I didn't get any responses, so I am asking again.   Did I not phrase
>> my question correctly, or am I missing something?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> -Troy
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Troy Knabe wrote:
>> 
>>> I am attempting to be very granular in the access that I give to my
>>> directory, but I seem to be struggling with the implementation.
>>> 
>>> I have several proxy accounts that I want to grant the access to
>>> that they need, no more, no less.  But I seem to have to put a line
>>> in like:
>>> 
>>> access to dn.children="dc=company,dc=com" by * read in order to
>>> authenticate.  What I thought I wanted was something like this:
>>> 
>>> access to attrs=userPassword
>>> 	by dn.exact=proxy,dc=company,dc=com write
>>> 	by self write
>>> 	by anonymous auth
>>> 
>>> But without read access above, it does not work.  How can I allow
>>> proxy users/groups access w/out granting read access to everyone?
>>> Or does the dn.children allow read access to all attributes?
> 
> You need access to the root entry pseudo attributes entry and children,
> something like
> 
> access to dn.children=dc=company,dc=com by users read by * auth
> access to dn.base=dc=company,dc=com attrs=entry,children by * auth

That is what I thought, I just wasn't sure how to resolve it.  Thank you for the answers.  So now I should be able to give specific access to specific attributes for users/groups, correct?

-Troy