[Freeipa-users] Replication status

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/18/2012 10:31 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Rich Megginson<rmeggins at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> On 05/18/2012 10:06 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
>>> On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Rich Megginson<rmeggins at redhat.com>
>>>   wrote:
>>>> On 05/18/2012 08:13 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Rob Crittenden<rcritten at redhat.com>
>>>>>   wrote:
>>>>>> Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>>>>> On 05/02/2012 07:36 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
>>>>>>>> On May 2, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Rich Megginson wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is there any way to expose the nsDS5ReplicationAgreement
>>>>>>>>>> objectClass
>>>>>>>>>> to a less privileged account; i.e., an account solely designed to
>>>>>>>>>> check replication status?
>>>>>>>>> You also need to expose the RUV tombstone entry at the base of each
>>>>>>>>> suffix.
>>>>>>>> Good to know, thanks. I haven't messed with ACIs on 389ds/IPA before;
>>>>>>>> any pointers?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>> Ian
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/9.0/html/Administration_Guide/Managing_Access_Control.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We already have some delegated permissions for replication but none
>>>>>> granting
>>>>>> only read access. Off the cuff, something like this might work:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dn: cn="$SUFFIX",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
>>>>>> changetype: modify
>>>>>> add: aci
>>>>>> aci:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (targetattr=*)(targetfilter="(|(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement)(objectclass=nsDSWindowsReplicationAgreement))")(version
>>>>>> 3.0; aci "permission:Read Replication Agreements"; allow (read, search,
>>>>>> compare) groupdn = "ldap:///cn=Read Replication
>>>>>> Agreements,cn=permissions,cn=pbac,$SUFFIX";)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dn: cn=Read Replication Agreements,cn=permissions,cn=pbac,$SUFFIX
>>>>>> changetype: add
>>>>>> objectClass: top
>>>>>> objectClass: groupofnames
>>>>>> objectClass: ipapermission
>>>>>> cn: Read Replication Agreements
>>>>>> ipapermissiontype: SYSTEM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that you'll need to replace $SUFFIX with your base dn
>>>>>> (dc=example,dc=com).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is untested so YMMV. If you find that it works and is useful
>>>>>> please
>>>>>> let
>>>>>> us know, maybe we can add this for everyone to enjoy :-)
>>>>> Is it safe to allow anonymous access to read this attribute? I added
>>>>> the following ACI:
>>>>>
>>>>> dn: cn="$SUFFIX",cn=mapping tree,cn=config
>>>>> changetype: modify
>>>>> add: aci
>>>>> aci:
>>>>>
>>>>> (targetattr=*)(targetfilter="(|(objectclass=nsds5replicationagreement)(objectclass=nsDSWindowsReplicationAgreement))")(version
>>>>> 3.0; aci "permission:Read Replication Agreements"; allow (read,
>>>>> search, compare) groupdn = "ldap:///anyone";)
>>>>
>>>> It would be better to restrict the list of attributes to only those
>>>> needed
>>>> by the app e.g. (targetattr="foo || bar || baz || ...")
>>> OK, thanks. I had a look through the available data and I think these
>>> would be best:
>>>
>>>
>>> nsDS5ReplicaHost||nsds5replicaLastUpdateStatus||nsds5replicaLastUpdateStart||nsds5replicaLastUpdateEnd||nsds5replicaLastInitStart||nsds5replicaLastInitEnd||nsds5replicaUpdateInProgress
>>>
>>>>> And I can now get the replication status using an anonymous bind. I
>>>>> also modified the nagios perl script to make an anonymous bind and
>>>>> check the replication status - it's working OK.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if the aci should be a standard feature, option to
>>>>> enable, or just to provide the ldif for anyone who wants it.
>>>>
>>>> Sure.  If you think it should be a standard feature, just file a ticket.
>>> OK, will do, once I've figured out a few more things. I want to enable
>>> this for the PKI-CA directory too. I changed the dn to "dn:
>>> cn="o=ipaca",cn=mapping tree,cn=config" and added this to my server on
>>> port 7389. Using targetattr=*, everything works fine, but when I
>>> restrict it to the list of attributes above, I don't get any results.
>>> Is there another attribute I need to add?
>>
>> Not sure why it would be any different for CA replication . . .
> Sorry, I wasn't clear. The difference isn't between CA and main, it's
> between restricting to (targetattr="nsDS5ReplicaHost||.....) and
> (targetattr=*). If I add the targetattr=* to the CA dirsrv, it works
> fine. Neither work when I restrict to particular attributes.

If you look at the access log it should tell you which attributes it is 
searching for.

>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan