Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Piotr Wadas
Regarding "broken ACI concept" - does any rfc speaks something about concept of dynamically assigned priviledges to ldap directory entries? Or does it recommend avoiding such policies? Regards, Piotr

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
Piotr Wadas wrote: Regarding "broken ACI concept" - does any rfc speaks something about concept of dynamically assigned priviledges to ldap directory entries? Or does it recommend avoiding such policies? AFAIK, nothing made it into an RFC; what OpenLDAP's ACIs are (loosely) based on is . Ot

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Ralf Haferkamp
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 12:10, Piotr Wadas wrote: > Regarding "broken ACI concept" - does any rfc > speaks something about concept of dynamically assigned priviledges > to ldap directory entries? Or does it recommend avoiding > such policies? To my knowledge there is no RFC on this topic. The

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Piotr Wadas
> > IMHO, the most appealing feature of ACIs is the fact that in principle access > rules get replicated along with data. However, the lack of a standard defeats > this purpose when getting to cross-implementation replication, migration and > so. Moreover, one might want to have different access

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
Piotr Wadas wrote: That's ok, I just started using cn=config lately and I'm not familiar with it, however, isn't there other side of penny - one can modify config information without restarting, but modified information is not stored/saved between restarts ? ACI is somehow "static", although it'

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Howard Chu
Pierangelo Masarati wrote: Piotr Wadas wrote: That's ok, I just started using cn=config lately and I'm not familiar with it, however, isn't there other side of penny - one can modify config information without restarting, but modified information is not stored/saved between restarts ? ACI is so

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
Howard Chu wrote: Pierangelo Masarati wrote: Piotr Wadas wrote: That's ok, I just started using cn=config lately and I'm not familiar with it, however, isn't there other side of penny - one can modify config information without restarting, but modified information is not stored/saved between r

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-14 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Pierangelo Masarati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Finally, right now access control on OpenLDAP's slapd can be > modified without the need to stop and restart it, by means of > cn=config; Sounds cool. I'll have a look at it. But I gather that is just ACL's in the database? And the very consept

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-15 Thread Michael Ströder
Pierangelo Masarati wrote: > > IMHO, the most appealing feature of ACIs is the fact that in principle > access rules get replicated along with data. The most appealing feature to me would be that a client could in advance determine what access control is in effect and modify the input forms accor

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Megginson
Michael Ströder wrote: Pierangelo Masarati wrote: IMHO, the most appealing feature of ACIs is the fact that in principle access rules get replicated along with data. The most appealing feature to me would be that a client could in advance determine what access control is in effect and

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-15 Thread Howard Chu
Rich Megginson wrote: Michael Ströder wrote: Pierangelo Masarati wrote: IMHO, the most appealing feature of ACIs is the fact that in principle access rules get replicated along with data. The most appealing feature to me would be that a client could in advance determine what access con

Re: ACIs and OL 2.3, rfc ?

2007-02-15 Thread Pierangelo Masarati
Howard Chu wrote: > Rich Megginson wrote: >> Michael Ströder wrote: >>> Pierangelo Masarati wrote: >>> IMHO, the most appealing feature of ACIs is the fact that in principle access rules get replicated along with data. >>> >>> The most appealing feature to me would be that a c