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Re: acl to read dn only
Ron Peterson wrote:
> I'm trying to create an acl which allow a particular use to search my
> DIT and retrieve dn values only. Perhaps a (broken) attempt at an acl
> will help explain what I mean:
>
> access to dn.children="dc=mtholyoke,dc=edu" attrs=distinguishedName
> by dn="cn=proxysearchdn,dc=mtholyoke,dc=edu" read
> by * break
>
> access to dn.children="dc=mtholyoke,dc=edu"
> by dn="cn=proxysearchdn,dc=mtholyoke,dc=edu" search
> by * break
>
> I want to use my proxysearchdn user to do the first step of a search and
> bind operation, without giving that user any more access to objects than
> necessary.
>
> BTW, I can indicate attrs=distinguishedName, but attrs=dn gives me an
> error. Correct behaviour, I'm sure, but I'm not sure then how to say
> what I mean.
attrs=entry will give access to the pseudo-attribute "entry", which
implies access to the entry's DN. That's what is checked when
determining if an entry is to be returned by a search operation.
p.
Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
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