.TH SLAPD.ACCESS 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2003 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation All Rights Reserved.
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.SH NAME
slapd.access \- access configuration for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon
*
[dn[.<dnstyle>]=<DN>]
[filter=<ldapfilter>]
- [attrs=<attrlist>]
+ [attrs=<attrlist>[ val[.<style>]=<attrval>]]
.fi
.LP
The wildcard
.B exact
(an alias of
.BR base )
-indicates the entry whose DN is equal to the pattern.
+indicates the entry whose DN is equal to the pattern;
.B one
+(synonym of
+.BR onelevel )
indicates all the entries immediately below the
.BR pattern ,
-.B subtree
+.B sub
+(synonym of
+.BR subtree )
indicates all entries in the subtree at the pattern,
.B children
indicates all the entries below (subordinate to) the pattern.
indicating access to the entry's children. ObjectClass names may also
be specified in this list, which will affect all the attributes that
are required and/or allowed by that objectClass.
+Actually, names in
+.B <attrlist>
+that are prefixed by
+.B @
+are directly treated as objectClass names. A name prefixed by
+.B !
+is also treated as an objectClass, but in this case the access rule
+affects the attributes that are not required nor allowed
+by that objectClass.
.LP
Using the form
.B attrs=<attr> val[.<style>]=<value>
of
.B exact
(the default) uses the attribute's equality matching rule to compare the
-value. If the
+value. If the value
.B <style>
is
.BR regex ,
the provided value is used as a regular expression pattern.
+If the attribute has DN syntax, the value
+.B <style>
+can be any of
+.BR base ,
+.BR onelevel ,
+.B subtree
+or
+.BR children ,
+resulting in base, onelevel, subtree or children match, respectively.
.LP
The dn, filter, and attrs statements are additive; they can be used in sequence
to select entities the access rule applies to based on naming context,
.LP
.nf
<level> ::= none|auth|compare|search|read|write
- <priv> ::= {=|+|-}{w|r|s|c|x}+
+ <priv> ::= {=|+|-}{w|r|s|c|x|0}+
.fi
.LP
The modifier
for compare, and
.B x
for authentication.
-More than one privilege can be added in one statement.
+More than one of the above privileges can be added in one statement.
+.B 0
+indicates no privileges and is used only by itself (e.g., +0).
.LP
The optional field
.B <control>
privileges to authenticated clients.
.SH OPERATION REQUIREMENTS
Operations require different privileges on different portions of entries.
-.TP
+The following summary applies to primary database backends such as
+the LDBM, BDB, and HDB backends. Requirements for other backends may
+(and often do) differ.
+.LP
The
.B add
-operation requires
-.B write
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+operation requires
+.B write (=w)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B entry
of the entry being added, and
-.B write
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+.B write (=w)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B children
of the entry's parent.
-.TP
+.LP
The
.B bind
operation, when credentials are stored in the directory, requires
-.B auth
+.B auth (=x)
privileges on the attribute the credentials are stored in (usually
.BR userPassword ).
-.TP
+.LP
The
.B compare
operation requires
-.B compare
+.B compare (=c)
privileges on the attribute that is being compared.
-.B FIXME: should it require also compare privileges on the entry's meta-attribute?
-.TP
+.LP
The
.B delete
operation requires
-.B write
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+.B write (=w)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B entry
of the entry being deleted, and
-.B write
+.B write (=w)
privileges on the
.B children
-meta-attribute of the entry's parent.
-.TP
+pseudo-attribute of the entry's parent.
+.LP
The
.B modify
operation requires
-.B write
+.B write (=w)
privileges on the attibutes being modified.
-.TP
+.LP
The
.B modrdn
operation requires
-.B write
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+.B write (=w)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B entry
of the entry whose relative DN is being modified,
-.B write
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+.B write (=w)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B children
of the old and new entry's parents, and
-.B write
+.B write (=w)
privileges on the attributes that are present in the new relative DN.
-.B Write
+.B Write (=w)
privileges are also required on the attributes that are present
in the old relative DN if
.B deleteoldrdn
is set to 1.
-.TP
+.LP
The
.B search
operation, for each entry, requires
-.B search
+.B search (=s)
privileges on the attributes that are defined in the filter.
Then, the resulting entries are tested for
-.B read
-privileges on the meta-attribute
+.B read (=r)
+privileges on the pseudo-attribute
.B entry
+(for read access to the entry itself)
and for
-.B read
+.B read (=r)
access on each value of each attribute that is requested.
-.B Referrals
-are also checked for
-.B read
-access on the meta-attribute
-.BR entry .
+Also, for each
+.B referral
+object used in generating continuation references, the operation requires
+.B read (=r)
+access on the pseudo-attribute
+.B entry
+(for read access to the referral object itself),
+as well as
+.B read (=r)
+access to the attribute holding the referral information
+(generally the
+.B ref
+attribute).
+.LP
+Some
+.B controls
+require specific access privileges.
+The
+.B proxyAuthz
+control requires
+.B auth (=x)
+privileges on all the attributes that are present in the search filter
+of the URI regexp maps (the right-hand side of the
+.B sasl-regexp
+directives).
+It also requires
+.B auth (=x)
+privileges on the
+.B saslAuthzTo
+attribute of the authorizing identity and/or on the
+.B saslAuthzFrom
+attribute of the authorized identity.
.SH CAVEATS
It is strongly recommended to explicitly use the most appropriate
-DN
-.BR style ,
+.BR <dnstyle> ,
to avoid possible incorrect specifications of the access rules as well
as for performance (avoid unrequired regex matching when an exact
match suffices) reasons.
by ...
.fi
.LP
+When writing submatch rules, it may be convenient to avoid unnecessary
+.B regex
+.B <dnstyle>
+use; for instance, to allow access to the subtree of the user
+that matches the
+.B what
+clause, one could use
+.LP
+.nf
+ access to dn.regex="^(.+,)?uid=([^,]+),dc=example,dc=com$$"
+ by dn.regex="^uid=$1,dc=example,dc=com$$" write
+ by ...
+.fi
+.LP
+However, since all that is required in the
+.B to
+clause is substring expansion, a more efficient solution is
+.LP
+.nf
+ access to dn.regex="^(.+,)?uid=([^,]+),dc=example,dc=com$$"
+ by dn.exact,expand="uid=$1,dc=example,dc=com" write
+ by ...
+.fi
+.LP
+In fact, while a
+.B <dnstyle>
+of
+.B regex
+implies substring expansion,
+.BR exact ,
+as well as all the other DN specific
+.B <dnstyle>
+values, does not, so it must be explicitly requested.
+.LP
.SH FILES
.TP
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
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