Bind Rules - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.1 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

• Compare—Indicates whether the data may be used in comparison operations.
Compare implies the ability to search, but actual directory information is not
returned because of the search. Instead, a simple Boolean value is returned that
indicates whether the compared values match. This is used to match
attribute values during directory authentication.
userPassword
• Selfwrite—Used only for group management. This permission allows someone
to add to or delete themselves from a group.
• Add—Indicates whether child entries can be created. This permission allows a
user to create child entries beneath the targeted entry.
• Delete—Indicates whether an entry can be deleted. This permission allows a
user to delete the targeted entry.
• Proxy—Indicates that the user can use any other DN, except Directory
Manager, to access the directory with the rights of this DN.

Bind Rules

The bind rule usually indicates the bind DN subject to the permission. It can also
specify bind attributes such as time of day or IP address.
Bind rules allow you to easily express that the ACI applies only to a user's own
entry. You can use this to allow users to update their own entries without running
the risk of a user updating another user's entry.
Using bind rules, you can indicate that the ACI is applicable:
• Only if the bind operation is arriving from a specific IP address or DNS
hostname. This is often used to force all directory updates to occur from a
given machine or network domain.
• If the person binds anonymously. Setting a permission for anonymous bind
also means that the permission applies to anyone who binds to the directory as
well.
• For anyone who successfully binds to the directory. This allows general access
while preventing anonymous access.
• Only if the client has bound as the immediate parent of the entry.
• Only if the entry that the person has bound as meets a specific LDAP search
criteria.
The following keywords are provided to help you more easily express these kinds
of access:
Designing Access Control
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