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Re: detecting rights



Timo Boettcher wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Sorry for bugging again...
> 
> I'm using group based ACL's for access-control, implemeting different
> levels of access for different subtrees. Now I'd like detect whether a
> user has the right to read/write a to a specific entry because I won't
> display this possibillities on application-side to minimize
> user-confusion.
> Is there any possibility to do that without trying to read/write to an
> entry? I'm using ldap via php (I don't think that this matters, that
> should be ldap-related, not php-related. If I'm wrong with that, I'm
> sorry to post this Off-Topic but hope to get help anyhow).

If I get it right, you want to know if a user has access to a subtree
without performing a search on the subtree.  In other words you ask if
the server publishes its ACL.  I don't recall any means for a server
to publish ACLs (this would open security issues, I guess).  The ACL
mechanism is applied by the server to the data; it is implementation
dependent.  IMHO all you can do is let clients ask for data; protect
data
on the server side.

Pierangelo.

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