[Freeipa-devel] Need ACI to allow self-modification

[Rob Crittenden]

Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 14:08 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> I'm surprised we haven't seen this yet. I suppose I've done most unit 
>> testing as 'admin' myself.
>>
>> I created a user 'test' and tried to update a couple of attributes. I 
>> get an error when I do:
>>
>> Insufficient access: Insufficient 'write' privilege to the 'mail' 
>> attribute of entry 'uid=test,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=greyoak,dc=com'.
>>
>> I think this is the relevent ACI that is failing:
>>
>> [29/Oct/2007:14:03:04 -0400] NSACLPlugin - Evaluated ACL_FALSE
>> [29/Oct/2007:14:03:04 -0400] NSACLPlugin - conn=97 op=3 (main): Deny 
>> write on 
>> entry(uid=test,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=greyoak,dc=com).attr(mail): no 
>> aci matched the subject by aci(7): aciname= "Account Admins can
>> manage 
>> Users and Groups", acidn="dc=greyoak,dc=com"
>>
>> I'm guessing that it is more a lack of a "user can modify themselves" ACI.
> 
> But should we allow users to modify their own entries?
> And if so, which attributes exactly we should let a user modify himself?
> 
> "mail" is not something I would allow, but I guess that's depend on the
> use case?
> 

This is the "self service" part.

If we limit the updatable attributes we'll need to have that configured 
somewhere unless are ok leaving it hardcoded for V1.

rob
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