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slapo-dynlist(5)





NAME

       slapo-dynlist - Dynamic List overlay to slapd


SYNOPSIS

       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf


DESCRIPTION

       The  dynlist overlay to slapd(8) allows expansion of dynamic groups and
       more.  Any time an entry with a specific objectClass  (defined  in  the
       overlay  configuration)  is  being returned, the LDAP URI-valued occur-
       rences of a specific attribute (also defined in the overlay  configura-
       tion)  are  expanded  into the corresponding entries, and the values of
       the attributes listed in the URI are added to the original  entry.   No
       recursion is allowed, to avoid potential infinite loops.

       Since the resulting entry is dynamically constructed, it does not exist
       until it is constructed while being returned.  As a consequence, dynam-
       ically added attributes do not participate in the filter matching phase
       of the search request handling.  In other words, filtering for  dynami-
       cally added attributes always fails.

       The  resulting  entry  must  comply  with  the LDAP data model, so con-
       straints are enforced.  For example, if  a  SINGLE-VALUE  attribute  is
       listed, only the first value found during the list expansion appears in
       the final entry.  The above described behavior  is  disabled  when  the
       manageDSAit  control (RFC 3296) is used.  In that case, the contents of
       the dynamic group entry is returned;  namely,  the  URLs  are  returned
       instead of being expanded.


CONFIGURATION

       The  config directives that are specific to the dynlist overlay must be
       prefixed by dynlist-, to avoid potential conflicts with directives spe-
       cific to the underlying database or to other stacked overlays.

       overlay dynlist
              This directive adds the dynlist overlay to the current database,
              or to the frontend, if used before any  database  instantiation;
              see slapd.conf(5) for details.

       This  slapd.conf  configuration option is defined for the dynlist over-
       lay. It may have multiple occurrences, and it  must  appear  after  the
       overlay directive.

       dynlist-attrset  <group-oc> [<URI>] <URL-ad> [[<mapped-ad>:]<member-ad>
       ...]
              The value group-oc is the name of the objectClass that  triggers
              the dynamic expansion of the data.

              The  optional  URI  restricts expansion only to entries matching
              the DN, the scope and the filter portions of the URI.

              The value URL-ad is the name of  the  attributeDescription  that
              contains  the  URI  that  is expanded by the overlay; if none is
              present, no  expansion  occurs.   If  the  intersection  of  the
              attributes  requested  by  the search operation (or the asserted
              attribute for compares) and the attributes listed in the URI  is
              empty,  no expansion occurs for that specific URI.  It must be a
              subtype of labeledURI.

              The value member-ad is optional; if present, the overlay behaves
              as  a  dynamic  group:  this  attribute  will list the DN of the
              entries resulting from the internal search.  In this  case,  the
              attrs  portion  of  the  URIs  in  the  URL-ad attribute must be
              absent, and the DNs of all the entries resulting from the expan-
              sion  of  the URIs are listed as values of this attribute.  Com-
              pares that assert  the  value  of  the  member-ad  attribute  of
              entries  with  group-oc  objectClass  apply  as if the DN of the
              entries resulting from the expansion of the URI were present  in
              the group-oc entry as values of the member-ad attribute.

              Alternatively,   mapped-ad  can  be  used  to  remap  attributes
              obtained through expansion.  member-ad attributes are not filled
              by  expanded DN, but are remapped as mapped-ad attributes.  Mul-
              tiple mapping statements can be used.

       The dynlist overlay may be used with any  backend,  but  it  is  mainly
       intended  for  use with local storage backends.  In case the URI expan-
       sion is very resource-intensive and occurs frequently with well-defined
       patterns, one should consider adding a proxycache later on in the over-
       lay stack.


AUTHORIZATION

       By default the expansions are performed using the identity of the  cur-
       rent LDAP user.  This identity may be overridden by setting the dgIden-
       tity attribute in the group's entry to the DN of another LDAP user.  In
       that  case  the  dgIdentity will be used when expanding the URIs in the
       object.  Setting the dgIdentity to a zero-length string will cause  the
       expansions  to  be  performed  anonymously.   Note  that the dgIdentity
       attribute is defined in the dyngroup schema, and this  schema  must  be
       loaded before the dgIdentity authorization feature may be used.  If the
       dgAuthz attribute is also present in the group's entry, its values  are
       used  to determine what identities are authorized to use the dgIdentity
       to expand the group.  Values of the dgAuthz attribute must  conform  to
       the (experimental) OpenLDAP authz syntax.


EXAMPLE

       This example collects all the email addresses of a database into a sin-
       gle entry; first of all, make sure that slapd.conf contains the  direc-
       tives:

           include /path/to/dyngroup.schema
           # ...

           database <database>
           # ...

           overlay dynlist
           dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL

       and that slapd loads dynlist.la, if compiled as a run-time module; then
       add to the database an entry like

           dn: cn=Dynamic List,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
           objectClass: groupOfURLs
           cn: Dynamic List
           memberURL: ldap:///ou=People,dc=example,dc=com?mail?sub?(objectClass=person)

       If no <attrs> are provided in the URI, all (non-operational) attributes
       are collected.

       This  example  implements  the  dynamic  group  feature  on  the member
       attribute:

           include /path/to/dyngroup.schema
           # ...

           database <database>
           # ...

           overlay dynlist
           dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL member

       A dynamic group with dgIdentity authorization could be created with  an
       entry like

           dn: cn=Dynamic Group,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com
           objectClass: groupOfURLs
           objectClass: dgIdentityAux
           cn: Dynamic Group
           memberURL: ldap:///ou=People,dc=example,dc=com??sub?(objectClass=person)
           dgIdentity: cn=Group Proxy,ou=Services,dc=example,dc=com


FILES

       /etc/openldap/slapd.conf
              default slapd configuration file


SEE ALSO

       slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8).  The slapo-dynlist(5) overlay
       supports dynamic configuration via back-config.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       This module was written in  2004  by  Pierangelo  Masarati  for  SysNet
       s.n.c.

       Attribute remapping was contributed in 2008 by Emmanuel Dreyfus.

OpenLDAP 2.4.36                   2013/08/17                  SLAPO-DYNLIST(5)

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