On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:09:07 -0500 Peter Doherty <dohe...@hkl.hms.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2011, at 14:02 , Rob Crittenden wrote: > > > Peter Doherty wrote: > >> Hello, I'm running Fedora 14 and freeipa 1.2.2-6 > >> > >> > >> Can I create a new cn/nsContainer (cn=subgroup,dc=example,dc=com) > >> and then create an account that can edit that cn as much as they > >> want, > >> but can't edit the other ones (ie: accounts, groups...)? > >> Any pointers to documentation would be useful. Unfortunately I'm > >> not 100% clear on my terminology, so google searches are leading > >> me a bit astray. > > > > What would you put into this container? > > > > 389-ds certainly supports doing this, depending on what exactly > > you want to do IPA may or may not support it. For example, we look > > for a type of entry only within a given container, so you can't put > > users into another location. > > > > rob > > The first thing I'm looking to do with it is have a web server that > has account information stored in LDAP, and to allow users to to > ldap authentication. The users logging into the web server would be > different from the posix groups that are managed by FreeIPA. I want > to replace htaccess and htpasswd files and use LDAP instead. > It seems like I could create a subsection in LDAP and set up apache > to bind and auth against that. But I also want a seperate ldap > admin account that can only edit this section, and not the rest of > the FreeIPA data. > Thanks. It is possible to do using LDAP tools and then setting an ACI on the container to give the user you want full control on that container. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list Freeipa-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users