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Re: group.regex



> Does anyone knows in which version this is/will be fixed? I'm currently
> using 2.1.29/i386/bdb 4.52.

Never, since it's not a bug, but the intended behavior.

p.

>
> Regards
> P.
>
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>> You;ll find the answer here:
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>> 	http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200310/msg00089.html
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>> and here:
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>> 	http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-software/200310/msg00328.html
>>
>> greetings,
>>
>>
>> _+Ace
>>
>>
>>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I am just beginning to learn the syntax for access control with
>> slapd. My question pertains to group regex's. The administrators
>> manual and the slapd.access man page leave me a little confused.
>> >
>> > Quote from the slapd.access man page:
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The statement dn=<pattern> means that access is granted to the
>> matching DN.  The optional style qualifier dnstyle allows the  same
>> choices  of the  dn	form of the <what> field.  In addition, the
>> regex form of pattern can exploit substring substitution of
>> submatches  in  the <what> dn.regex  clause  by using the form
>> $<digit>, with digit ranging from 1 to 9.
>> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Do the submatches work for groups also. For instance, take the
>> following:
>> >
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> > access to dn="cn=(.+),dc=example,dc=com"
>> > by group.regex="cn=$1,cn=test,dc=example,dc=com" write
>> > by * read
>> >
>> > access to * by * read
>> > -------------------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > If they do indeed work for group.regex, then I would expect that
>> access to an entry "cn=penguin,dc=example,dc=com" would be writable
>> by the group "cn=penguin,cn=test,dc=example,dc=com" right?
>> >
>> > I tried this and it didn't work. I get insuficient rights errors
>> when attempting to add an entry. Any help understanding this is
>> appreciated. I'm running openldap-2.1.21 on Linux(Fedora Core 1).
>> >
>> > Also, does anyone know of a good book that covers access control in
>> detail, or maybe links to some good tutorials or articles.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Matt M.
>>
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