.TH SLAPO-RWM 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION"
-.\" Copyright 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
+.\" Copyright 1998-2008 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved.
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.\" Copyright 2004, Pierangelo Masarati, All rights reserved. <ando@sys-net.it>
.\" $OpenLDAP$
.\" and maybe manual pages for librewrite.
.\"
.SH NAME
-slapo-rwm \- rewrite/remap overlay
+slapo-rwm \- rewrite/remap overlay to slapd
.SH SYNOPSIS
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR slapd-ldap (5),
or locally, in conjunction with the relay backend described in
.BR slapd-relay (5).
+.LP
+This overlay is experimental.
.SH MAPPING
An important feature of the
.B rwm
same purpose, etc.
If local or foreign name is `*', the name is preserved.
If local name is omitted, the foreign name is removed.
-Unmapped names are preseved if both local and foreign name are `*',
+Unmapped names are preserved if both local and foreign name are `*',
and removed if local name is omitted and foreign name is `*'.
.LP
The local
.I objectClasses
and
.I attributeTypes
-must be defined in the local schema; the foreign ones do not have to.
+must be defined in the local schema; the foreign ones do not have to,
+but users are encouraged to explicitly define the remote attributeTypes
+and the objectClasses they intend to map. All in all, when remapping
+a remote server via back-ldap (\fBslapd-ldap\fP(5))
+or back-meta (\fBslapd-meta\fP(5))
+their definition can be easily obtained by querying the \fIsubschemaSubentry\fP
+of the remote server; the problem should not exist when remapping a local
+database.
Note, however, that the decision whether to rewrite or not attributeTypes
with
.IR "distinguishedName syntax" ,
and then the DN is rewritten.
As such, it is important that the local attributeType is appropriately
defined as using the distinguishedName syntax.
-Also, note that there are DN-related syntaxes, like nameAndOptionalUID,
-whose values are currenlty not rewritten.
+Also, note that there are DN-related syntaxes (i.e. compound types with
+a portion that is DN-valued), like nameAndOptionalUID,
+whose values are currently not rewritten.
+.LP
+If the foreign type of an attribute mapping is not defined on the local
+server, it might be desirable to have the attribute values normalized after
+the mapping process. Not normalizing the values can lead to wrong results,
+when the
+.B rwm
+overlay is used together with e.g. the
+.B pcache
+overlay. This normalization can be enabled by means of the
+.B rwm-normalize-mapped-attrs
+directive.
+.TP
+.B rwm-normalize-mapped-attrs {yes|no}
+Set this to "yes", if the
+.B rwm
+overlay should try to normalize the values of attributes that are mapped from
+an attribute type that is unknown to the local server. The default value of
+this setting is "no".
.SH SUFFIX MASSAGING
A basic feature of the
.B rwm
and a real naming context by means of the
.B rwm-suffixmassage
directive.
+This, in conjunction with proxy backends,
+.BR slapd-ldap (5)
+and
+.BR slapd-meta (5),
+or with the relay backend,
+.BR slapd-relay (5),
+allows to create virtual views of databases.
+A distinguishing feature of this overlay is that, when instantiated
+before any database, it can modify the DN of requests
+.I before
+database selection.
+For this reason, rules that rewrite the empty DN ("")
+or the subschemaSubentry DN (usually "cn=subschema"),
+would prevent clients from reading the root DSE or the DSA's schema.
.TP
.B rwm-suffixmassage "[<virtual naming context>]" "<real naming context>"
Shortcut to implement naming context rewriting; the trailing part
for the slapd server (initially dedicated to the LDAP backend):
.LP
.SH Passes
-An incoming string is matched agains a set of
+An incoming string is matched against a set of
.IR rewriteRules .
Rules are made of a
.IR "regex match pattern" ,
as return code if the rule matches; the flag does not alter the recursive
behavior of the rule, so, to have it performed only once, it must be used
in combination with `:', e.g.
-.B `:U{16}'
-returns the value `16' after exactly one execution of the rule, if the
-pattern matches.
+.B `:U{32}'
+returns the value `32' (indicating noSuchObject) after exactly
+one execution of the rule, if the pattern matches.
As a consequence, its behavior is equivalent to `@', with the return
code set to
.BR n ;
or, in other words, `@' is equivalent to `U{0}'.
-By convention, the freely available codes are above 16 included;
-the others are reserved.
+Positive errors are allowed, indicating the related LDAP error codes
+as specified in \fIdraft-ietf-ldapbis-protocol\fP.
.LP
The ordering of the flags can be significant.
For instance: `IG{2}' means ignore errors and jump two lines ahead
assigns a variable in the rewrite context scope; operator
.B &&
assigns a variable that scopes the entire session, e.g. its value
-can be derefenced later by other rewrite contexts
+can be dereferenced later by other rewrite contexts
.TP
.B *
variable dereferencing; <name> must refer to a variable that is
modrDN modrdn
newSuperiorDN modrdn
deleteDN delete
-exopPasswdDN passwd exop DN
+exopPasswdDN password modify extended operation DN
.fi
.RE
.LP
<Context name> is the name that identifies the context, i.e. the name
used by the application to refer to the set of rules it contains.
It is used also to reference sub contexts in string rewriting.
-A context may aliase another one.
+A context may alias another one.
In this case the alias context contains no rule, and any reference to
it will result in accessing the aliased one.
.TP
to any single rule; an optional per-rule limit can be set.
This limit is overridden by setting specific per-rule limits
with the `M{n}' flag.
+
+.SH "MAPS"
+Currently, few maps are builtin but additional map types may be
+registered at runtime.
+
+Supported maps are:
+.TP
+.B LDAP <URI> [bindwhen=<when>] [version=<version>] [binddn=<DN>] [credentials=<cred>]
+The
+.B LDAP
+map expands a value by performing a simple LDAP search.
+Its configuration is based on a mandatory URI, whose
+.B attrs
+portion must contain exactly one attribute
+(use
+.B entryDN
+to fetch the DN of an entry).
+If a multi-valued attribute is used, only the first value is considered.
+
+The parameter
+.B bindwhen
+determines when the connection is established.
+It can take the values
+.BR now ,
+.BR later ,
+and
+.BR everytime ,
+respectively indicating that the connection should be created at startup,
+when required, or any time it is used.
+In the former two cases, the connection is cached, while in the latter
+a fresh new one is used all times. This is the default.
+
+The parameters
+.B binddn
+and
+.B credentials
+represent the DN and the password that is used to perform an authenticated
+simple bind before performing the search operation; if not given,
+an anonymous connection is used.
+
+The parameter
+.B version
+can be 2 or 3 to indicate the protocol version that must be used.
+The default is 3.
+
+.TP
+.B slapd <URI>
+The
+.B slapd
+map expands a value by performing an internal LDAP search.
+Its configuration is based on a mandatory URI, which must begin with
+.B "ldap:///"
+(i.e., it must be an LDAP URI and it must not specify a host).
+As with the
+LDAP map, the
+.B attrs
+portion must contain exactly one attribute, and if
+a multi-valued attribute is used, only the first value is considered.
+
.SH "REWRITE CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES"
.nf
# set to `off' to disable rewriting
rwm-rewriteEngine on
# all dataflow from client to server referring to DNs
rwm-rewriteContext default
-rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)<virtualnamingcontext>$" "$1<realnamingcontext>" ":"
+rwm-rewriteRule "(.+,)?<virtualnamingcontext>$" "$1<realnamingcontext>" ":"
# empty filter rule
rwm-rewriteContext searchFilter
# all dataflow from server to client
rwm-rewriteContext searchEntryDN
-rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)<realnamingcontext>$" "$1<virtualnamingcontext>" ":"
+rwm-rewriteRule "(.+,)?<realnamingcontext>$" "$1<virtualnamingcontext>" ":"
rwm-rewriteContext searchAttrDN alias searchEntryDN
rwm-rewriteContext matchedDN alias searchEntryDN
+# misc empty rules
+rwm-rewriteContext referralAttrDN
+rwm-rewriteContext referralDN
# Everything defined here goes into the `default' context.
# This rule changes the naming context of anything sent
# to `dc=home,dc=net' to `dc=OpenLDAP, dc=org'
-rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)dc=home,[ ]?dc=net$"
+rwm-rewriteRule "(.+,)?dc=home,[ ]?dc=net$"
"$1dc=OpenLDAP, dc=org" ":"
# since a pretty/normalized DN does not include spaces
# after rdn separators, e.g. `,', this rule suffices:
-rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)dc=home,dc=net$"
+rwm-rewriteRule "(.+,)?dc=home,dc=net$"
"$1dc=OpenLDAP,dc=org" ":"
# Start a new context (ends input of the previous one).
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