Re: slapo-dynlist desgin question(s)
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
--On Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:47 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc(a)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.
Please explain how those dynamic groups have any relevance to them if they
are not members of the group.
You asked for the ability to use rootdn privileges to evaluate the membership
of a dynamic group because the user on whose behalf you are evaluating may
not have access to evaluate the membership.
This makes no sense. If the user doesn't have access to evaluate the
membership, then clearly the user doesn't have the values that determine
membership in the group - thus the user is not a member, so the actual
membership of that group is a moot point.
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:
The only reason to use root privilege to evaluate the group membership is to
make the member list visible where it otherwise would not be. If you're
claiming that the member list is sensitive information, and should not be
visible to non-members, then all this does is break your security.
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-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc
OpenLDAP Core Team http://www.openldap.org/project/