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Re: draft admin guide



At 11:33 AM 9/22/2003, Jason Townsend wrote:
>On Sep 21, 2003, at 7:44 PM, Howard Chu wrote:
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org
>>>[mailto:owner-openldap-devel@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Jason Townsend
>>>>>It seems that the search is subject to the sizelimit.
>>>>>add
>>>>>        sizelimit -1            (or appropriate number)
>>>>>to the slapd.conf of the provider.
>>>>
>>>>I think we should make sure this is noted in the Admin
>>>Guide then. ;)
>>>
>>>It would be very useful to allow the sizelimit to vary based on the
>>>DN/group which is doing the search... then you could limit
>>>the ordinary
>>>users from loading all the records, but allow the LDAP Sync
>>>replicas or
>>>administrators to do this sort of thing.
>>
>>See the "limit" directive in slapd.conf(5); this is already implemented.
>
>How do I specify a group to set the limit for? It seems to only allow DNs.

presently, yes.  Feel free to extend it.

Personally, I'm think it best to add a user classification
system on openldap and then use that as a policy factor.
I posted on note a while back on them....

Kurt