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Commit 982d874a authored by Howard Chu's avatar Howard Chu
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More for access control ordering

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......@@ -1263,6 +1263,10 @@ own DN from the attribute, not other values. The addition of
the entry attribute is required because access to the entry is
required to access any of the entry's attributes.
H3: Access Control Ordering
Since the ordering of {{EX:olcAccess}} directives is essential to their
proper evaluation, but LDAP attributes normally do not preserve the
ordering of their values, OpenLDAP uses a custom schema extension to
......@@ -1291,8 +1295,8 @@ when you read them back using slapcat or ldapsearch they will contain
The numeric index may be used to specify a particular value to change
when using ldapmodify to edit the access rules. This index can be used
instead of the actual access value. Using this shorthand form can be
very helpful when a large number of access rules are being managed.
instead of (or in addition to) the actual access value. Using this
numeric index is very helpful when multiple access rules are being managed.
For example, if we needed to change the second rule above to grant
write access instead of search, we could try this LDIF:
......@@ -1305,7 +1309,7 @@ write access instead of search, we could try this LDIF:
> olcAccess: to dn.children="dc=example,dc=com" by * write
> -
But this example will not guarantee that the existing values remain in
But this example {{B:will not}} guarantee that the existing values remain in
their original order, so it will most likely yield a broken security
configuration. Instead, the numeric index should be used:
......@@ -1317,9 +1321,9 @@ configuration. Instead, the numeric index should be used:
> olcAccess: {1}to dn.children="dc=example,dc=com" by * write
> -
This example deletes whatever rule is in slot 1 of the olcAccess
This example deletes whatever rule is in value #1 of the {{EX:olcAccess}}
attribute (regardless of its value) and adds a new value that is
explicitly placed in slot 1. The result will be
explicitly inserted as value #1. The result will be
> olcAccess: {0}to attr=member,entry
> by dnattr=member selfwrite
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