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add a caveat on access control issues

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Pierangelo Masarati 2005-11-23 11:16:28 +00:00
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@ -133,7 +133,52 @@ cachesize 100
.RE
.LP
Any valid directives for the chosen database type may be used.
.SH CAVEATS
Caching data is prone to inconsistencies because updates on the remote server
will not be reflected in the response of the cache at least (and at most)
for the duration of the
.B proxytemplate
.BR TTL .
Another potential (and subtle) inconsistency may occur when data is retrieved
with different identities and specific per-identity access control
is enforced by the remote server.
If data was retrieved with an identity that collected only partial results
because of access rules enforcement on the remote server, other users
with different access privileges on the remote server will get different
results from the remote server and from the cache.
If those users have higher access privileges on the remote server, they will
get from the cache only a subset of the results they would get directly
from the remote server; but if they have lower access privileges, they will
get from the cache a superset of the results they would get directly
from the remote server.
Either occurrence may or may not be acceptable, based on the security policy
of the cache and of the remote server.
It is important to note that in this case the proxy is violating the security
of the remote server by disclosing to an identity data that was collected
by another identity.
For this reason, it is suggested that, when using
.BR back-ldap ,
proxy caching be used in conjunction with the
.I identity assertion
feature of
.BR slapd-ldap (5)
(see the
.B idassert-bind
and the
.B idassert-authz
statements), so that remote server interrogation occurs with a vanilla identity
that has some relatively high
.B search
and
.B read
access privileges, and the "real" access control is delegated to the proxy's ACLs.
Beware that since only the cached fraction of the real datum is available
to the cache, it may not be possible to enforce the same access rules that
are defined on the remote server.
When security is a concern, cached proxy access must be carefully tailored.
.SH FILES
.TP
ETCDIR/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file