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

Le 12/04/2010 19:14, Matt Ingram a écrit :
> Hi All.
>
> We're trying to implement acls that will allow our Admins to modify the
> LDAP directory without using a generic admin account, and using their
> own credentials within LDAP. Our requirement is that the Admins can
> modify the mail, uid and userPassword attributes. Which I have working.
> Part of this also requires that the Admin has the ability to add those
> attributes. That does not work.
>
> We have our system automated so that HR creates a user and the basics
> are automatically populated into LDAP, however the mail, uid and
> userpassword attributes are not created at that time.
They just don't have any value, because they are optional attributes in 
the schema.

> What kind of an ACL do I need to allow the Admins to create the mail,
> uid and userPassword attributes ?
You can't create them, you just need write perms to set them to some 
initial value.
-- 
BOFH excuse #348:

We're on Token Ring, and it looks like the token got loose.