[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When using "authz-policy to" I find that the entity that is trying to do an > operation on behalf of another entity needs read access to its own authzTo > attribute. > This seems wrong: authzTo is defining what the user may do: I do not really > want > them to be able to see it. When doing a proxy authz I think ACLs for this > attribute should not be checked at all as the access is effectively being done > by the rootdn.
AFAIK, access to that attribute is checked using AUTH rather than read. The idea is that ACLs should allow to fine-grain control who is allowed to exploit the authorization feature while giving up as little as possible (e.g. AUTH instead of READ). p. Ing. Pierangelo Masarati OpenLDAP Core Team SysNet s.r.l. via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it ----------------------------------- Office: +39 02 23998309 Mobile: +39 333 4963172 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------
