Granting A Group Full Access To A Suffix - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.02 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Access Control Usage Examples

Granting a Group Full Access to a Suffix

Most directories have a group that is used to identify certain corporate functions.
These groups can be given full access to all or part of the directory. By applying the
access rights to the group, you can avoid setting the access rights for each member
individually. Instead, you grant users these access rights simply by adding them to
the group.
For example, when you install the Directory Server using the Typical Install
process, an Administrators group with full access to the directory is created by
default.
At
example.com
ou=example-people
database. This is illustrated in the ACI "HR" example.
ACI "HR"
In LDIF, to grant the HR group all rights on the employee branch of the directory,
you would use the following statement:
aci: (version 3.0; acl "HR"; allow (all) userdn=
"ldap:///cn=HRgroup,ou=example-people,dc=example,dc=com";)
This example assumes that the ACI is added to the
ou=example-people,dc=example,dc=com
From the Console, you can set this permission by doing the following:
On the Directory tab, right click the
1.
example.com
Permissions from the pop-up menu to display the Access Control Manager.
Click New to display the Access Control Editor.
2.
On the Users/Groups tab, in the ACI name field, type "HR". In the list of users
3.
granted access permission, do the following:
a.
b.
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, the Human Resources group is allowed full access to the
branch of the directory so that they can update the employee
node in the left navigation tree, and choose Set Access
Select and remove All Users, then click Add.
The Add Users and Groups dialog box is displayed.
Set the Search area to Users and Groups, and type "HRgroup" in the
Search for field.
This example assumes that you have created an HR group or role. For
more information on groups and roles, see Chapter 5, "Advanced Entry
Management."
entry.
example.com-people
entry under the