[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0032] Update ACIs to permit users to add/delete their own tokens

[Simo Sorce]

On Thu, 2014-01-09 at 16:32 -0500, Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> This patch is independent from my patches 0028-0031 and can be merged in
> any order.
> 
> This patch has a bug, but I can't figure it out. We need to set
> nsslapd-access-userattr-strict on cn=config to "off".

Uhmm what is the effect on ACL evaluation of changing this boolean ?
I can;t figure out from your commit not from 389ds commit what exactly
changes and how it impacts the security of the directory.

I ask because I was planning on using userattr to protect some
operations in the password plugin but was waiting due to bug:
https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47571 which is beeing resolved.

I want to make sure your change won't change what this ACIs would allow.

Is this option simply allowing the use of add/delete ACIs to be
specified in conjunction with userattr, so that a user can add an attr
only if it contains its own DN ?

Will it allow the user to add multiple values to the same attr as long
as one of the is the userDN ? O will it restrict that case ?

(I know that ipaTokenOwner is a single-value attribute, but the
mechanism you are enabling here is general, and I want to be sure of
what the semantics are)

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York