Patch for memberOf overlay section from Buchan Milne.

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Gavin Henry 2007-10-03 17:13:50 +00:00
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@ -206,9 +206,81 @@ H3: Dynamic List Configuration
H2: Reverse Group Membership Maintenance
H3: Overview
In some scenarios, it may be desirable for a client to be able to determine
which groups an entry is a member of, without performing an additional search.
Examples of this are applications using the {{TERM:DIT}} for access control
based on group authorization.
The {{B:memberof}} overlay updates an attribute (by default {{B:memberOf}}) whenever
changes occur to the membership attribute (by default {{B:member}}) of entries of the
objectclass (by default {{B:groupOfNames}}) configured to trigger updates.
Thus, it provides maintenance of the list of groups an entry is a member of,
when usual maintenance of groups is done by modifying the members on the group
entry.
H3: Member Of Configuration
The typical use of this overlay requires just enabling the overlay for a
specific database. For example, with the following minimal slapd.conf:
> include /usr/share/openldap/schema/core.schema
> include /usr/share/openldap/schema/cosine.schema
> modulepath /usr/lib/openldap
> moduleload memberof.la
> authz-regexp "gidNumber=0\\\+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth"
> "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com"
> database bdb
> suffix "dc=example,dc=com"
> rootdn "cn=Manager,dc=example,dc=com"
> rootpw secret
> directory /var/lib/ldap2.4
> checkpoint 256 5
> index objectClass eq
> index uid eq,sub
>
> overlay memberof
adding the following ldif:
> cat memberof.ldif
> dn: dc=example,dc=com
> objectclass: domain
> dc: example
>
> dn: ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com
> objectclass: organizationalUnit
> ou: Group
>
> dn: ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> objectclass: organizationalUnit
> ou: People
>
> dn: uid=test1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> objectclass: account
> uid: test1
>
> dn: cn=testgroup,ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com
> objectclass: groupOfNames
> cn: testgroup
> member: uid=test1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
Results in the following output from a search on the test1 user:
> # ldapsearch -LL -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi:/// "(uid=test1)" -b dc=example,dc=com memberOf
> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
> SASL username: gidNumber=0+uidNumber=0,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
> SASL SSF: 0
> version: 1
>
> dn: uid=test1,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
> memberOf: cn=testgroup,ou=Group,dc=example,dc=com
Note that the {{B:memberOf}} attribute is an operational attribute, so it must be
requested explicitly.
H2: The Proxy Cache Engine