.TH SLAPO-RWM 5 "RELEASEDATE" "OpenLDAP LDVERSION" .\" Copyright 1998-2004 The OpenLDAP Foundation, All Rights Reserved. .\" Copying restrictions apply. See the COPYRIGHT file. .\" Copyright 2004, Pierangelo Masarati, All rights reserved. .\" $OpenLDAP$ .\" .\" Portions of this document should probably be moved to slapd-ldap(5) .\" and maybe manual pages for librewrite. .\" .SH NAME slapo-rwm \- rewrite/remap overlay .SH SYNOPSIS ETCDIR/slapd.conf .SH DESCRIPTION The .B rwm overlay to .BR slapd (8) performs basic DN/data rewrite and objectClass/attributeType mapping. Its usage is mostly intended to provide virtual views of existing data either remotely, in conjunction with the proxy backend described in .BR slapd-ldap (5), or locally, in conjunction with the relay backend described in .BR slapd-relay (5). .SH MAPPING An important feature of the .B rwm overlay is the capability to map objectClasses and attributeTypes from the local set (or a subset of it) to a foreign set, and vice versa. This is accomplished by means of the .B rwm-map directive. .TP .B rwm-map "{attribute | objectclass} [ | *] { | *}" Map attributeTypes and objectClasses from the foreign server to different values on the local slapd. The reason is that some attributes might not be part of the local slapd's schema, some attribute names might be different but serve the same purpose, etc. If local or foreign name is `*', the name is preserved. If local name is omitted, the foreign name is removed. Unmapped names are preseved if both local and foreign name are `*', and removed if local name is omitted and foreign name is `*'. .LP The local .I objectClasses and .I attributeTypes must be defined in the local schema; the foreign ones do not have to. Note, however, that the decision whether to rewrite or not attributeTypes with .IR "distinguishedName syntax" , requires the knowledge of the attributeType syntax. See the REWRITING section for details. .LP Note that when mapping DN-valued attributes from local to remote, first the DN is rewritten, and then the attributeType is mapped; while mapping from remote to local, first the attributeType is mapped, and then the DN is rewritten. As such, it is important that the local attributeType is appropriately defined as using the distinguishedName syntax. Also, note that there are DN-related syntaxes, like nameAndOptionalUID, whose values are currenlty not rewritten. .SH SUFFIX MASSAGING A basic feature of the .B rwm overlay is the capability to perform suffix massaging between a virtual and a real naming context by means of the .B rwm-suffixmassage directive. .TP .B rwm-suffixmassage "" "" Shortcut to implement naming context rewriting; the trailing part of the DN is rewritten from the virtual to the real naming context in the bindDN, searchDN, searchFilterAttrDN, compareDN, compareAttrDN, addDN, addAttrDN, modifyDN, modifyAttrDN, modrDN, newSuperiorDN, deleteDN, exopPasswdDN, and from the real to the virtual naming context in the searchEntryDN, searchAttrDN and matchedDN rewrite contexts. By default no rewriting occurs for the searchFilter rewrite context. This directive implies setting the .B rwm-rewriteEngine to .BR ON . .LP See the REWRITING section for details. .SH REWRITING A string is rewritten according to a set of rules, called a `rewrite context'. The rules are based on POSIX (''extended'') regular expressions with substring matching; basic variable substitution and map resolution of substrings is allowed by specific mechanisms detailed in the following. The behavior of pattern matching/substitution can be altered by a set of flags. .LP .RS .nf ::= [...] ::= [] .fi .RE .LP The underlying concept is to build a lightweight rewrite module for the slapd server (initially dedicated to the LDAP backend): .LP .SH Passes An incoming string is matched agains a set of .IR rewriteRules . Rules are made of a .IR "regex match pattern" , a .I "substitution pattern" and a set of actions, described by a set of .IR "optional flags" . In case of match, string rewriting is performed according to the substitution pattern that allows to refer to substrings matched in the incoming string. The actions, if any, are finally performed. Each rule is executed recursively, unless altered by specific action flags; see "Action Flags" for details. A default limit on the recursion level is set, and can be altered by the .B rwm-rewriteMaxPasses directive, as detailed in the "Additional Configuration Syntax" section. The substitution pattern allows map resolution of substrings. A map is a generic object that maps a substitution pattern to a value. The flags are divided in "Pattern Matching Flags" and "Action Flags"; the former alter the regex match pattern behavior, while the latter alter the actions that are taken after substitution. .SH "Pattern Matching Flags" .TP .B `C' honors case in matching (default is case insensitive) .TP .B `R' use POSIX ''basic'' regular expressions (default is ''extended'') .TP .B `M{n}' allow no more than .B n recursive passes for a specific rule; does not alter the max total count of passes, so it can only enforce a stricter limit for a specific rule. .SH "Action Flags" .TP .B `:' apply the rule once only (default is recursive) .TP .B `@' stop applying rules in case of match; the current rule is still applied recursively; combine with `:' to apply the current rule only once and then stop. .TP .B `#' stop current operation if the rule matches, and issue an `unwilling to perform' error. .TP .B `G{n}' jump .B n rules back and forth (watch for loops!). Note that `G{1}' is implicit in every rule. .TP .B `I' ignores errors in rule; this means, in case of error, e.g. issued by a map, the error is treated as a missed match. The `unwilling to perform' is not overridden. .TP .B `U{n}' uses .B n as return code if the rule matches; the flag does not alter the recursive behavior of the rule, so, to have it performed only once, it must be used in combination with `:', e.g. .B `:U{16}' returns the value `16' after exactly one execution of the rule, if the pattern matches. As a consequence, its behavior is equivalent to `@', with the return code set to .BR n ; or, in other words, `@' is equivalent to `U{0}'. By convention, the freely available codes are above 16 included; the others are reserved. .LP The ordering of the flags can be significant. For instance: `IG{2}' means ignore errors and jump two lines ahead both in case of match and in case of error, while `G{2}I' means ignore errors, but jump two lines ahead only in case of match. .LP More flags (mainly Action Flags) will be added as needed. .SH "Pattern Matching" See .BR regex (7) and/or .BR re_format (7). .SH "Substitution Pattern Syntax" Everything starting with `$' requires substitution; .LP the only obvious exception is `$$', which is left as is; .LP the basic substitution is `$', where `' is a digit; 0 means the whole string, while 1-9 is a submatch, as discussed in .BR regex (7) and/or .BR re_format (7). .LP a `$' followed by a `{' invokes an advanced substitution. The pattern is: .LP .RS `$' `{' [ ] `(' `)' `}' .RE .LP where must be a legal name for the map, i.e. .LP .RS .nf ::= [a-z][a-z0-9]* (case insensitive) ::= `>' `|' `&' `&&' `*' `**' `$' .fi .RE .LP and must be a legal substitution pattern, with no limits on the nesting level. .LP The operators are: .TP .B > sub-context invocation; must be a legal, already defined rewrite context name .TP .B | external command invocation; must refer to a legal, already defined command name (NOT IMPLEMENTED YET) .TP .B & variable assignment; defines a variable in the running operation structure which can be dereferenced later; operator .B & assigns a variable in the rewrite context scope; operator .B && assigns a variable that scopes the entire session, e.g. its value can be derefenced later by other rewrite contexts .TP .B * variable dereferencing; must refer to a variable that is defined and assigned for the running operation; operator .B * dereferences a variable scoping the rewrite context; operator .B ** dereferences a variable scoping the whole session, e.g. the value is passed across rewrite contexts .TP .B $ parameter dereferencing; must refer to an existing parameter; the idea is to make some run-time parameters set by the system available to the rewrite engine, as the client host name, the bind DN if any, constant parameters initialized at config time, and so on; no parameter is currently set by either .B back\-ldap or .BR back\-meta , but constant parameters can be defined in the configuration file by using the .B rewriteParam directive. .LP Substitution escaping has been delegated to the `$' symbol, which is used instead of `\e' in string substitution patterns because `\e' is already escaped by slapd's low level parsing routines; as a consequence, regex escaping requires two `\e' symbols, e.g. `\fB.*\e.foo\e.bar\fP' must be written as `\fB.*\e\e.foo\e\e.bar\fP'. .\" .\" The symbol can be altered at will by redefining the related macro in .\" "rewrite-int.h". .\" .SH "Rewrite Context" A rewrite context is a set of rules which are applied in sequence. The basic idea is to have an application initialize a rewrite engine (think of Apache's mod_rewrite ...) with a set of rewrite contexts; when string rewriting is required, one invokes the appropriate rewrite context with the input string and obtains the newly rewritten one if no errors occur. .LP Each basic server operation is associated to a rewrite context; they are divided in two main groups: client \-> server and server \-> client rewriting. .LP client -> server: .LP .RS .nf (default) if defined and no specific context is available bindDN bind searchDN search searchFilter search searchFilterAttrDN search compareDN compare compareAttrDN compare AVA addDN add addAttrDN add AVA (including "ref") modifyDN modify modifyAttrDN modify AVA (including "ref") modrDN modrdn newSuperiorDN modrdn deleteDN delete exopPasswdDN passwd exop DN .fi .RE .LP server -> client: .LP .RS .nf searchEntryDN search (only if defined; no default; acts on DN of search entries) searchAttrDN search AVA (only if defined; defaults to searchEntryDN; acts on DN-syntax attributes of search results) matchedDN all ops (only if applicable; defaults to searchEntryDN) referralDN all ops (only if applicable; defaults to searchEntryDN) .fi .RE .LP .SH "Basic Configuration Syntax" All rewrite/remap directives start with the prefix .BR rwm- ; for backwards compatibility with the historical .BR slapd-ldap (5) and .BR slapd-meta (5) builtin rewrite/remap capabilities, the prefix may be omitted, but this practice is strongly discouraged. .TP .B rwm-rewriteEngine { on | off } If `on', the requested rewriting is performed; if `off', no rewriting takes place (an easy way to stop rewriting without altering too much the configuration file). .TP .B rwm-rewriteContext "[ alias ]" is the name that identifies the context, i.e. the name used by the application to refer to the set of rules it contains. It is used also to reference sub contexts in string rewriting. A context may aliase another one. In this case the alias context contains no rule, and any reference to it will result in accessing the aliased one. .TP .B rwm-rewriteRule "" "" "[ ]" Determines how a string can be rewritten if a pattern is matched. Examples are reported below. .SH "Additional Configuration Syntax" .TP .B rwm-rewriteMap "" "" "[ ]" Allows to define a map that transforms substring rewriting into something else. The map is referenced inside the substitution pattern of a rule. .TP .B rwm-rewriteParam Sets a value with global scope, that can be dereferenced by the command `${$paramName}'. .TP .B rwm-rewriteMaxPasses [] Sets the maximum number of total rewriting passes that can be performed in a single rewrite operation (to avoid loops). A safe default is set to 100; note that reaching this limit is still treated as a success; recursive invocation of rules is simply interrupted. The count applies to the rewriting operation as a whole, not to any single rule; an optional per-rule limit can be set. This limit is overridden by setting specific per-rule limits with the `M{n}' flag. .SH "Configuration Examples" .nf # set to `off' to disable rewriting rwm-rewriteEngine on # the rules the "suffixmassage" directive implies rwm-rewriteEngine on # all dataflow from client to server referring to DNs rwm-rewriteContext default rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)$" "$1" ":" # empty filter rule rwm-rewriteContext searchFilter # all dataflow from server to client rwm-rewriteContext searchEntryDN rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)$" "$1" ":" rwm-rewriteContext searchAttrDN alias searchEntryDN rwm-rewriteContext matchedDN alias searchEntryDN # Everything defined here goes into the `default' context. # This rule changes the naming context of anything sent # to `dc=home,dc=net' to `dc=OpenLDAP, dc=org' rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)dc=home,[ ]?dc=net$" "$1dc=OpenLDAP, dc=org" ":" # since a pretty/normalized DN does not include spaces # after rdn separators, e.g. `,', this rule suffices: rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)dc=home,dc=net$" "$1dc=OpenLDAP,dc=org" ":" # Start a new context (ends input of the previous one). # This rule adds blanks between DN parts if not present. rwm-rewriteContext addBlanks rwm-rewriteRule "(.*),([^ ].*)" "$1, $2" # This one eats blanks rwm-rewriteContext eatBlanks rwm-rewriteRule "(.*), (.*)" "$1,$2" # Here control goes back to the default rewrite # context; rules are appended to the existing ones. # anything that gets here is piped into rule `addBlanks' rwm-rewriteContext default rwm-rewriteRule ".*" "${>addBlanks($0)}" ":" .\" # Anything with `uid=username' is looked up in .\" # /etc/passwd for gecos (I know it's nearly useless, .\" # but it is there just as a guideline to implementing .\" # custom maps). .\" # Note the `I' flag that leaves `uid=username' in place .\" # if `username' does not have a valid account, and the .\" # `:' that forces the rule to be processed exactly once. .\" rwm-rewriteContext uid2Gecos .\" rwm-rewriteRule "(.*)uid=([a-z0-9]+),(.+)" .\" "$1cn=$2{xpasswd},$3" "I:" .\" .\" # Finally, in a bind, if one uses a `uid=username' DN, .\" # it is rewritten in `cn=name surname' if possible. .\" rwm-rewriteContext bindDN .\" rwm-rewriteRule ".*" "${>addBlanks(${>uid2Gecos($0)})}" ":" .\" # Rewrite the search base according to `default' rules. rwm-rewriteContext searchDN alias default # Search results with OpenLDAP DN are rewritten back with # `dc=home,dc=net' naming context, with spaces eaten. rwm-rewriteContext searchEntryDN rwm-rewriteRule "(.*[^ ],)?[ ]?dc=OpenLDAP,[ ]?dc=org$" "${>eatBlanks($1)}dc=home,dc=net" ":" # Bind with email instead of full DN: we first need # an ldap map that turns attributes into a DN (the # argument used when invoking the map is appended to # the URI and acts as the filter portion) rwm-rewriteMap ldap attr2dn "ldap://host/dc=my,dc=org?dn?sub" # Then we need to detect DN made up of a single email, # e.g. `mail=someone@example.com'; note that the rule # in case of match stops rewriting; in case of error, # it is ignored. In case we are mapping virtual # to real naming contexts, we also need to rewrite # regular DNs, because the definition of a bindDN # rewrite context overrides the default definition. rwm-rewriteContext bindDN rwm-rewriteRule "^mail=[^,]+@[^,]+$" "${attr2dn($0)}" ":@I" # This is a rather sophisticated example. It massages a # search filter in case who performs the search has # administrative privileges. First we need to keep # track of the bind DN of the incoming request, which is # stored in a variable called `binddn' with session scope, # and left in place to allow regular binding: rwm-rewriteContext bindDN rwm-rewriteRule ".+" "${&&binddn($0)}$0" ":" # A search filter containing `uid=' is rewritten only # if an appropriate DN is bound. # To do this, in the first rule the bound DN is # dereferenced, while the filter is decomposed in a # prefix, in the value of the `uid=' AVA, and # in a suffix. A tag `<>' is appended to the DN. # If the DN refers to an entry in the `ou=admin' subtree, # the filter is rewritten OR-ing the `uid=' with # `cn='; otherwise it is left as is. This could be # useful, for instance, to allow apache's auth_ldap-1.4 # module to authenticate users with both `uid' and # `cn', but only if the request comes from a possible # `cn=Web auth,ou=admin,dc=home,dc=net' user. rwm-rewriteContext searchFilter rwm-rewriteRule "(.*\e\e()uid=([a-z0-9_]+)(\e\e).*)" "${**binddn}<>${&prefix($1)}${&arg($2)}${&suffix($3)}" ":I" rwm-rewriteRule "^[^,]+,ou=admin,dc=home,dc=net$" "${*prefix}|(uid=${*arg})(cn=${*arg})${*suffix}" ":@I" rwm-rewriteRule ".*<>$" "${*prefix}uid=${*arg}${*suffix}" ":" # This example shows how to strip unwanted DN-valued # attribute values from a search result; the first rule # matches DN values below "ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"; # in case of match the rewriting exits successfully. # The second rule matches everything else and causes # the value to be rejected. rwm-rewriteContext searchEntryDN rwm-rewriteRule ".+,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com$" "$0" ":@" rwm-rewriteRule ".*" "" "#" .fi .SH FILES .TP ETCDIR/slapd.conf default slapd configuration file .SH SEE ALSO .BR slapd.conf (5), .BR slapd\-ldap (5), .BR slapd\-meta (5), .BR slapd\-relay (5), .BR slapd (8), .BR regex (7), .BR re_format (7). .SH AUTHOR Pierangelo Masarati; based on back-ldap rewrite/remap features by Howard Chu, Pierangelo Masarati.