OpenLDAP Quick Tips: Testing your Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Hi All,Here's my 7th tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series:
"You want to check your Access Control Lists configured in your directory server":
Previously we covered slaptest and slappasswd, so next is slapacl
Let's take a standard ACL example for protecting access to the userPassword attribute:
CODE:
access to * attrs=userPassword
by self write
by anonymous auth
by * none
We can verify that this does what is expected by using the slapacl tool:
CODE:
[root@suretec ~]# /usr/local/sbin/slapacl -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "uid=ghenry,ou=users,ou=oxobjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" -D "uid=ghenry,ou=users,ou=OxObjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" "userPassword/read:"
authcDN: "uid=ghenry,ou=users,ou=oxobjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com"
read access to userPassword=: ALLOWED
Here we point to our config file, stating that the entry we want to test against is the ghenry user entry and that the user we want to test that has access permissions is the ghenry user. Because we have self write access, we can obviously read that attribute too.
Now if we try to access someone elses password, we get:
CODE:
[root@suretec ~]# /usr/local/sbin/slapacl -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "uid=laura,ou=users,ou=oxobjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" -D "uid=ghenry,ou=users,ou=OxObjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" "userPassword/read:"
authcDN: "uid=ghenry,ou=users,ou=oxobjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com"
read access to userPassword=: DENIED
I'm not allowed to see the laura users password.
Of course, the rootdn user by passes all ACLs, so as expected, they can read the userPassword attribute:
CODE:
[root@suretec ~]# /usr/local/sbin/slapacl -f /usr/local/etc/openldap/slapd.conf -b "uid=laura,ou=users,ou=oxobjects,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" -D "cn=admin,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com" "userPassword/read:"
authcDN: "cn=admin,dc=suretecsystems,dc=com"
read access to userPassword=: ALLOWED
This should give you a taster of how to test your ACLs on the command line.
Thanks,
Gavin.
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Bash on :
Your "CODE" block looks all messed up in my browser (Ubuntu 8.10 Firefox 3.0.4)
There are tons of " " and "[" sprinkled and one can't make out what the commands/text are.
Thanks
Gavin Henry on :