[Fedora-directory-users] newbie question - roles AND groups?

[Edward Capriolo]

 If you take a look at openldap it has dyamic 'overlays' .
http://www.openldap.org/doc/admin24/overlays.html#Dynamic%20Lists.

The main jist of it is that an LDAP Query can be saved in an object.
This is similar in my mind to an SQL View.

So nss_ldap would referece a dynamic_overlay like object and that
would re-search for the actual content to be returned to the user
Having the object work in this read-only sense would make it less
complicated then
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/MemberOf_Plugin and still fit
the need nicely.
It would me more generic then memberOf and I can see a lot of uses for
it. Maybe another such plug in exists that I am not aware of.


2008/6/19 Richard Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com>:
> Grzegorz Marszałek wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm newbie to Fedora Directory, but is has two significant features - acl
>> and nested roles.
>>
>> But I could find a way to use roles as groups. That is - I'd like to
>> define role, and then use this to define posix group, which I can use via
>> nss_ldap on my servers. At first glance it seems that dynamic groups will do
>> what I want - I just defined filter to include all users with particular
>> role in group. But unfortunately dynamic groups aren't resolved by server,
>> you need client aplication to do that :(
>>
>>
>> So the question is: is there any way to do this without writing my own
>> slapi plugin?
>
> No, not currently.  But several other users have expressed an interest in a
> feature like this.  There is another new feature related to this concept
> that is currently in Fedora DS and being improved for the next version -
> http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/MemberOf_Plugin
>
> Would you be able to create a wiki page to explain your requirements for
> such a feature?  That would be a very good place to start designing this
> feature.
>>
>> Thanks!
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>> Grzegorz Marszałek
>> graf0 at post.pl
>>
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