--On Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:47 PM -0800 Howard Chu hyc@symas.com wrote:
You seem to be under the impression that changing the name of a piece of data changes the nature of the data. If you have an attribute that general users should not be able to see, then they also should not be able to see the dynamic group derived from that attribute. Opening it up in any way is only going to open you to the same liability you claim to want to avoid.
Please explain to me how they would see dynamic groups I haven't given them access to via acl control.
This:
access to dn.subtree="cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu" attrs=privgroup by USER compare
Is much worse than
access to dn.exact="cn=usergroup,cn=groups,dc=stanford,dc=edu" by USER compare
I don't in any way intend to let people see groups they don't have access to *but* if I have to use the user credentials to create groups, that's essentially the position I'm forced into unless I want to make thousands and thousands of ACL's like:
access to dn.subtree="cn=people,dc=stanford,dc=edu" attrs=privgroup val.regex="user-group-a" by * compare
Which is something I definitely want to avoid.
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Principal Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html