I'm not sure I'm reading you right, but it sounds like you're hosting:

dn: cn=someObject,dc=example,dc=com groupOfWriters: cn=specialPeople,dc=example,dc=com

dn: cn=specialPeople,dc=example,dc=com uniqueMember: cn=Bob,dc=example,dc=com uniqueMember: cn=Charlie,dc=example,dc=com

Something like that? Well, first off, consider if you can handle this with the simple case -- that is,

access to "cn=someObject,dc=example,dc=com" by group/groupOfUniqueNames/uniqueMember.exact="cn=specialPeople,dc=example,dc=com" write

Try the ACL test that ships with slapd if you want to see that in action. But it sounds like you want this to be dynamic based off groupOfWriters. I think you can do that with a set ACL. Maybe something along the lines of

by set="groupOfWriters/member & user" write

but that's just off the top of my head and quite likely insufficient.

On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

Hi,

Just wondering, before I go and delve into the code, whether there was a way of doing group based ACLs in the same way as dnattr allows indirection on the user DN.

Essentially, I'd like an object to contain an attribute holding the DN of the group permitted to access that object, and then be able to do access control based on the user being a member of the group pointed to by that DN.

I can find an email from Kurt in 1999, suggesting a groupattr directive be implemented, and welcoming contributions. Would a contribution of this still be welcomed 9 years later?

Cheers,

Simon.