[email protected] wrote: > I like what this offers administrators but I have a comment about how you > handle "wildcards". They aren't wild at all, but "magic strings" with only > one possible meaning: all users/services with the single magic character > "*". If you have a defined user naming convention like i_whatever for > interns and c_whatever for contractors, it would be useful to be able to > either include or exclude such users from using certain services. > > My patch at http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi?findid=6495 does this for > userhost and userservices attributes, and includes negation. Would you be > interested in working with me to expand this to support real wildcards? > Also I suggest you make this two patches, as the patch submission > guidelines clearly state that one patch for 1 feature, and the meaty parts > of this are obfuscated by increasing the buffer sizes which should probably > be in a separate patch. > > Regards, Kean
This patch was rejected. The functionality it offered was already provided by the slapd ACL engine. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
