Jason Dearborn wrote:
Ack.
Just found this: http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200710/msg00343.html and this: http://www.mail-archive.com/openldap-software@openldap.org/msg08524.html
Looks like other people are trying to work with posixGroups as well.
On 10/26/07, Jason Dearborn wrote:
I'd like to grant members of an Administrator group full access to everything in LDAP.
According to the ldap FAQ, the default objectclass is "groupOfNames" and the default attribute checked is "member". To match my config I'd need to change the values to "posixGroup" and "memberUid" respectively. It looks like you can do that with the following syntax:
<who> ::= group[/<objectclass>[/<attrname>][.<style>]]=<pattern>]
I can't find any examples on the web and I've been unsuccessful experimenting with various syntatical permutations. slapd won't start with any of the following:
access to * by group/posixGroup="Admins,ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com" write
access to * by group/posixGroup/memberUid="Admins,ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com" write
I'm running OpenLDAP 2.2.13-2
Has anyone been able to make this work?
It's impossible because in [rd]ecent releases of OpenLDAP software member attributes can only have distinguishedName (or, unfortunately, nameAndOptionalUID) syntax, or be or inherit from labeledURI, so memberUid is not allowed. The reason is straightforward, if you consider how group membership is designed in LDAP (not just in OpenLDAP): members are listed in grouos by their name (the DN), the only bit that's supposed to be unique.
Many people tried to use memberUid, but I can guarantee they all failed.
p.
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