slapo-dynlist(5)
NAME
slapo-dynlist - Dynamic List overlay to slapd
SYNOPSIS
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf
DESCRIPTION
The dynlist overlay to slapd(8) allows expansion of dynamic groups and more. Any time an entry with a specific objectClass (defined in the overlay configuration) is being returned, the LDAP URI-valued occurrences of a specific attribute (also defined in the overlay configuration) are expanded into the corresponding entries, and the values of the attributes listed in the URI are added to the original entry. No recursion is allowed, to avoid potential infinite loops. Since the resulting entry is dynamically constructed, it does not exist until it is constructed while being returned. As a consequence, dynamically added attributes do not participate in the filter matching phase of the search request handling. In other words, filtering for dynamically added attributes always fails. The resulting entry must comply with the LDAP data model, so constraints are enforced. For example, if a SINGLE-VALUE attribute is listed, only the first value found during the list expansion appears in the final entry. The above described behavior is disabled when the manageDSAit control (RFC 3296) is used. In that case, the contents of the dynamic group entry is returned; namely, the URLs are returned instead of being expanded.
CONFIGURATION
The config directives that are specific to the dynlist overlay must be
prefixed by dynlist-, to avoid potential conflicts with directives
specific to the underlying database or to other stacked overlays.
overlay dynlist
This directive adds the dynlist overlay to the current database,
or to the frontend, if used before any database instantiation;
see slapd.conf(5) for details.
This slapd.conf configuration option is defined for the dynlist
overlay. It may have multiple occurrences, and it must appear after the
overlay directive.
dynlist-attrset <group-oc> [<URI>] <URL-ad> [[<mapped-ad>:]<member-ad>
...]
The value group-oc is the name of the objectClass that triggers
the dynamic expansion of the data.
The optional URI restricts expansion only to entries matching
the DN, the scope and the filter portions of the URI.
The value URL-ad is the name of the attributeDescription that
contains the URI that is expanded by the overlay; if none is
present, no expansion occurs. If the intersection of the
attributes requested by the search operation (or the asserted
attribute for compares) and the attributes listed in the URI is
empty, no expansion occurs for that specific URI. It must be a
subtype of labeledURI.
The value member-ad is optional; if present, the overlay behaves
as a dynamic group: this attribute will list the DN of the
entries resulting from the internal search. In this case, the
attrs portion of the URIs in the URL-ad attribute must be
absent, and the DNs of all the entries resulting from the
expansion of the URIs are listed as values of this attribute.
Compares that assert the value of the member-ad attribute of
entries with group-oc objectClass apply as if the DN of the
entries resulting from the expansion of the URI were present in
the group-oc entry as values of the member-ad attribute.
Alternatively, mapped-ad can be used to remap attributes
obtained through expansion. member-ad attributes are not filled
by expanded DN, but are remapped as mapped-ad attributes.
Multiple mapping statements can be used.
The dynlist overlay may be used with any backend, but it is mainly
intended for use with local storage backends. In case the URI
expansion is very resource-intensive and occurs frequently with well-
defined patterns, one should consider adding a proxycache later on in
the overlay stack.
AUTHORIZATION
By default the expansions are performed using the identity of the current LDAP user. This identity may be overridden by setting the dgIdentity attribute in the group's entry to the DN of another LDAP user. In that case the dgIdentity will be used when expanding the URIs in the object. Setting the dgIdentity to a zero-length string will cause the expansions to be performed anonymously. Note that the dgIdentity attribute is defined in the dyngroup schema, and this schema must be loaded before the dgIdentity authorization feature may be used. If the dgAuthz attribute is also present in the group's entry, its values are used to determine what identities are authorized to use the dgIdentity to expand the group. Values of the dgAuthz attribute must conform to the (experimental) OpenLDAP authz syntax.
EXAMPLE
This example collects all the email addresses of a database into a
single entry; first of all, make sure that slapd.conf contains the
directives:
include /path/to/dyngroup.schema
# ...
database <database>
# ...
overlay dynlist
dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL
and that slapd loads dynlist.la, if compiled as a run-time module; then
add to the database an entry like
dn: cn=Dynamic List,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: groupOfURLs
cn: Dynamic List
memberURL: ldap:///ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?mail?sub?(objectClass=person)
If no <attrs> are provided in the URI, all (non-operational) attributes
are collected.
This example implements the dynamic group feature on the member
attribute:
include /path/to/dyngroup.schema
# ...
database <database>
# ...
overlay dynlist
dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL member
A dynamic group with dgIdentity authorization could be created with an
entry like
dn: cn=Dynamic Group,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
objectClass: groupOfURLs
objectClass: dgIdentityAux
cn: Dynamic Group
memberURL: ldap:///ou=People,dc=example,dc=com??sub?(objectClass=person)
dgIdentity: cn=Group Proxy,ou=Services,dc=example,dc=com
FILES
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file
SEE ALSO
slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8). The slapo-dynlist(5) overlay supports dynamic configuration via back-config.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This module was written in 2004 by Pierangelo Masarati for SysNet s.n.c. Attribute remapping was contributed in 2008 by Emmanuel Dreyfus.
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