Re: OpenLDAP as proxy for another LDAP-Server

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Findlay
, but in the mean time does anyone have any pointers to a neat way of doing this? Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory

Re: OpenLDAP as proxy for another LDAP-Server

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Findlay
have it running so I will write a section for the Admin Guide explaining how to do it. Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory se

SubEntry behaviour in OpenLDAP

2008-05-30 Thread Andrew Findlay
administrativeRole attribute but seems to have 'not implemented' hard-wired into the result code. Are subentries expected to work, or am I mis-reading something here? Thanks Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skil

pass-through authentication (was: Re: OpenLDAP as proxy for another LDAP-Server)

2008-06-03 Thread Andrew Findlay
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 06:17:44PM +0100, Andrew Findlay wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:58:28AM -0600, Philip Guenther wrote: > > > How about by using saslauthd? Configure the users that need pass-through > > authentication with userPassword values in the form "[E

Re: automatic uidnumber overlay

2008-06-11 Thread Andrew Findlay
ont need that...") so I still usually use the unique sequential allocation scheme: Perl implementation attached. Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scal

Force syncrepl client to do complete sync?

2008-06-18 Thread Andrew Findlay
B. Is there aome way that I can force a complete re-sync on a live server? I tried deleting the contextCSN through LDAP, but of course it won't let me do that on the slave. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay,

Re: Force syncrepl client to do complete sync?

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Findlay
pecific to that > replica... Yes. Trivial via LDAP of course, but rather slower. Andrew -- ----------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

2.4.10 slow when deleting member from large group

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Findlay
easured by timing an ldapmodify script, so not very accurate below 0.5s) Does anyone know why this operation should have got slower from 2.3.x to 2.4.x ? Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skil

Re: 2.4.10 slow when deleting member from large group

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Findlay
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Re: 2.4.10 slow when deleting member from large group

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Findlay
rts to the end of the list. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: ACL Help Please

2008-07-01 Thread Andrew Findlay
sers,dc=Company,dc=com write by * read access to * by * read Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: ACL Help Please

2008-07-02 Thread Andrew Findlay
users > # > dn: cn=Elliott Smith,ou=users,dc=company,dc=com > objectclass: top > objectclass: person > cn: Elliott Smith > sn: Smith > userPassword: mysecret > uid: esmith That won't load, as uid is not in the person object class: you need inetOrgPerson for that. Andrew

Re: configure ACL: allow access until after a period of time?

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Findlay
expiry dates in the future and make the ACL dependent on that. Something will have to update the group definition each day. I don't know whether this overlay works with ACLs though. Andrew -- ----------- |

Re: Syncrepl replication with a non-slapd master?

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Findlay
scans to detect other changes. The solution to this problem is not really specific to OpenLDAP so you may get more answers from a different mailing list. Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd

Re: ppolicy password lockout

2008-08-14 Thread Andrew Findlay
s? You need to do that to see things like failure times. Add '+' to the end of the ldapsearch command and see what you get. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Cons

Re: unique_uri strict ?

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Findlay
a reminder when dealing with configs for older versions. Andrew -- ----------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: acls and restricting permissions

2008-12-02 Thread Andrew Findlay
es to permit access to the RDN components of entries higher up the tree. The 'by * break' statement is an easy way of making sure this clause does not affect any other users. Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew F

Re: acls and restricting permissions

2008-12-04 Thread Andrew Findlay
nt is defined by the ACLs that apply to "cn=limited,dc=example,dc=com" Andrew -- ----------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: Unable do slapadd a LDIF dump from slapd 2.2.6 to slapd 2.4.9

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Findlay
me How did you generate the LDIF file that you are importing? It seems to be lacking some vital information. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: LDAP Question

2009-01-13 Thread Andrew Findlay
he problem here? You cannot just copy the files of a running database. You must either shut down slapd before starting the backup, or you must follow the Berkeley DB backup instructions. In either case I would advise keeping a slapcat backup as well. Andrew -- ---------

LDAP at the UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference

2009-02-11 Thread Andrew Findlay
odel Divide Howard Chu (Symas Corp. & OpenLDAP project) * Writing Access Control Policies for LDAP Andrew Findlay (Skills 1st) * Securing Access to UNIX, Linux and Mac with Active Directory Barry Scott (Centrify) There is also a Kerberos tutorial and several papers on systems mo

[ldap] Writing Access Control Policies for LDAP

2009-03-27 Thread Andrew Findlay
conference in London, and a tarball with the examples and test-suites mentioned in the paper. http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/papers/ldap-acls-jan-2009/ Comments are welcome. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st

Re: openldap getting very slow

2009-04-09 Thread Andrew Findlay
disk for example. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: Replication problem: How to sync?

2010-04-07 Thread Andrew Findlay
missing though! Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: ACLs - allowing a user to add a new attribute

2010-04-13 Thread Andrew Findlay
inous, but it can help you to understand what is going on. Andrew -- ------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: ACLs - match FDN to portion of attribute

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Findlay
ds,ou=people,dc=usask,dc=ca" read Make sure that you have a rule that will deny access to other users. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: ACLs - allowing a user to add a new attribute

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Findlay
x27;write' keyword includes read access > > '=w' just grants write privilege but no read privilege. Exactly. Protecting password attributes is a case that the privilege model handles much better than the level model. Andrew --

Re: ACLs - allowing a user to add a new attribute

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Findlay
but they will not be able to read the existing password. Andrew -- --- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: OpenLDAP ACLs Question

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Findlay
nvironment with the latest 2.4.x release to see what happens. Andrew -- ----------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/+44 1628 782565 | ---

Re: Authenticating with multiple databases

2010-04-16 Thread Andrew Findlay
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Re: asynchronous event notification?

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Findlay
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