Hello List - Please forgive my ignorance regarding the ACL's in OpenLDAP. For Starters I'm using OpenLDAP Software 2.4, and I've obtained the software from sunfreeware.com. OpenLDAP is running on a Solaris 10 Sparc system. My goal is to have each one of my user able to read/write to their own personal address book. I've added my initial LDIF file, and configured slapd as best I could understand. I can ldapadd using the root dn, and I can see all of the entries that I added using ldapsearch. However when I try to add to my personal entry, I receive this error. ldapadd -D "cn=Elliott Smith,ou=users,dc=Company,dc=com" -f contact.ldif Enter bind password: adding new entry cn=Nick Drake,ou=addressbook,dc=Company,dc=com ldap_add: Insufficient access ldap_add: additional info: no write access to parent Below are my LDIF and slapd. I want to express that I have read through as much of this list as I could regarding the "no write access to parent", and I've found many have similar issues. I feel that my setup is fairly straight forward. Any help is much appreciated. Let me know if you need more information. The LDIF I used to begin... # Initialize the suffix entry defined in slapd.conf # dn: dc=company,dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: dcObject objectclass: organization dc: company o: corporate # # Initialize the AddressBooks heirarchy # dn: ou=addressbook,dc=company,dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: organizationalUnit ou: addressbook # # Define individual address books # dn: o=hr,ou=addressbook,dc=company,dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: organization o: hr # # Initialize the Users heirarchy # dn: ou=users,dc=company,dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: organizationalUnit ou: users # # Define individual users # dn: cn=Elliott Smith,ou=users,dc=company,dc=com objectclass: top objectclass: person cn: Elliott Smith sn: Smith userPassword: mysecret uid: esmith The slapd I'm using... # See slapd.conf(5) for details on configuration options. # This file should NOT be world readable. # include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/core.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/cosine.schema include /usr/local/etc/openldap/schema/inetorgperson.schema # Define global ACLs to disable default read access. # Do not enable referrals until AFTER you have a working directory # service AND an understanding of referrals. #referral ldap://root.openldap.org pidfile /usr/local/var/run/slapd.pid argsfile /usr/local/var/run/slapd.args # Load dynamic backend modules: # modulepath /usr/local/libexec/openldap # moduleload back_bdb.la # moduleload back_ldap.la # moduleload back_ldbm.la # moduleload back_passwd.la # moduleload back_shell.la # Sample security restrictions # Require integrity protection (prevent hijacking) # Require 112-bit (3DES or better) encryption for updates # Require 63-bit encryption for simple bind # security ssf=1 update_ssf=112 simple_bind=64 # Sample access control policy: # Root DSE: allow anyone to read it # Subschema (sub)entry DSE: allow anyone to read it # Other DSEs: # Allow self write access # Allow authenticated users read access # Allow anonymous users to authenticate # Directives needed to implement policy: # # access to dn.regex="(.+,)?(uid=[^,]+,o=isc)$" by dn.exact,expand="$2" write by anonymous auth # if no access controls are present, the default policy # allows anyone and everyone to read anything but restricts # updates to rootdn. (e.g., "access to * by * read") # # rootdn can always read and write EVERYTHING! ####################################################################### # BDB database definitions ####################################################################### database bdb suffix "dc=Company,dc=com" rootdn "cn=root,dc=Company,dc=com" # Cleartext passwords, especially for the rootdn, should # be avoid. See slappasswd(8) and slapd.conf(5) for details. # Use of strong authentication encouraged. rootpw secret # The database directory MUST exist prior to running slapd AND # should only be accessible by the slapd and slap tools. # Mode 700 recommended. directory /usr/local/var/openldap-data # Indices to maintain index objectClass eq ------------------- david stackis uc santa barbara