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clarify DN regex match quirks

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Pierangelo Masarati 2003-05-17 12:39:10 +00:00
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@ -425,6 +425,48 @@ or the (even more silly) example
.LP
which grants everybody search and compare privileges, and adds read
privileges to authenticated clients.
.SH CAVEATS
It is strongly recommended to explicitly use the most appropriate
DN
.BR style ,
for performance (avoid unrequired regex matching when
an exact match suffices) but also to avoid possible
misimplementations of the access rules.
In fact, a rule of the form
.LP
.nf
access to dn="dc=example,dc=com"
by ...
.fi
.LP
implies that all the subtree "dc=example,dc=com" matches, and the
match is done using a regex.
.LP
.nf
access to dn.subtree="dc=example,dc=com"
by ...
.fi
.LP
would be far more appropriate.
.LP
Another quirk is related to the
.B by
clause:
a rule of the form
.LP
.nf
access to *
by dn="cn=User,dc=example,dc=com" write
.fi
.LP
gives write access to every DN below "cn=User,dc=example,dc=com";
if only that DN should have write access, the correct rule would be
.LP
.nf
access to *
by dn.exact="cn=User,dc=example,dc=com" write
.fi
.LP
.SH FILES
.TP
ETCDIR/slapd.conf