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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 overlay. It may have multiple occurrences, and it must appear after the overlay directive.
dynlist-attrset <group-oc> [<URI>] <URL-ad> [options] 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 remaining options depend on whether a dynamic list or a dynamic group is being configured. For a dynamic list, the allowed options have the form [<mapped-ad>:<list-ad> ...] The mapped-ad can be used to remap attributes obtained through expansion. The list-ad must be one of the attributes returned in the expansion of the URIs in the URL-ad attribute of the dynamic entry. Multiple mapping statements can be used. Note that in order for dynamic lists to be usable in a search filter, the dynamic attributes to be filtered must be explicitly mapped. They can be mapped to themselves if no transformation is required. For a dynamic group, the allowed options are <member-ad>[+<memberOf-ad>[@<static-oc>[*]]] The member-ad is required; 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 expansion of the URIs are listed as values of this attribute. Compares 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. If the optional memberOf-ad attribute is also specified, then it will be populated with the DNs of the dynamic groups that an entry is a member of. If the optional static-oc objectClass is also specified, then the memberOf attribute will also be populated with the DNs of the static groups that an entry is a member of. Note that using the same static-oc objectClass in more than one dynamic group configuration is not supported. If the optional * character is also specified, then the member and memberOf values will be populated recursively, for nested groups. Note that currently nesting is only supported for Search operations, not Compares.
dynlist-simple TRUE | FALSE This option downgrades to the behavior of the OpenLDAP 2.4 dynlist overlay. It disables memberOf processing, nested group support, and filter evaluation of dynamically generated values. The default is FALSE.
The dynlist overlay may be used with any backend, but it is mainly intended for use with local storage backends. In case the URI expansion is very resource-intensive and occurs frequently with well-defined patterns, one should consider adding a proxycache later on in the overlay stack.
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. The values of the above list can not be evaluated in a search filter. To enable filter evaluation on the dynamic list, the configuration must be changed to explicitly map the dynamic attributes to be filtered. In this case mail is just mapped to itself.
include /path/to/dyngroup.schema # ... database <database> # ... overlay dynlist dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL mail:mailThis 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=comThis example extends the dynamic group feature to add a dynamic dgMemberOf attribute to all the members of a dynamic group:
include /path/to/dyngroup.schema # ... database <database> # ... overlay dynlist dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL member+dgMemberOf
This example extends the dynamic memberOf feature to add the memberOf attribute to all the members of both static and dynamic groups:
include /path/to/dyngroup.schema # ... database <database> # ... overlay dynlist dynlist-attrset groupOfURLs memberURL member+memberOf@groupOfNames
This dynamic memberOf feature can fully replace the functionality of the slapo-memberof (5) overlay.
ETCDIR/slapd.conf default slapd configuration file
This module was written in 2004 by Pierangelo Masarati for SysNet s.n.c.
Attribute remapping was contributed in 2008 by Emmanuel Dreyfus.
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