SLAPO-DYNLIST(5) File Formats Manual SLAPO-DYNLIST(5)

slapo-dynlist - Dynamic List overlay to slapd

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf

The dynlist overlay to slapd(8) allows expansion of dynamic lists and groups. Any time an entry with a specific objectClass (defined in the overlay configuration) is being returned, the LDAP URI-valued occurrences of a specific attribute (also defined in the overlay configuration) are expanded into the corresponding entries.

For a dynamic list, the values of the attributes listed in the URI are added from the matching entries to the original entry. No recursion is allowed, to avoid potential infinite loops. The resulting entry must comply with the LDAP data model, so constraints are enforced. For example, if a SINGLE-VALUE attribute is listed, only the first value found during the list expansion appears in the final entry.

For a dynamic group, the DNs of the matching entries are added to a member attribute in the original entry.

All dynamic behavior is disabled when the manageDSAit control (RFC 3296) is used. In that case, the contents of the original entry is returned; namely, the URLs are returned instead of being expanded.

The config directives that are specific to the dynlist overlay must be prefixed by dynlist-, to avoid potential conflicts with directives specific to the underlying database or to other stacked overlays.

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.

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. 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.

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.

By default the expansions are performed using the identity of the current LDAP user. This identity may be overridden by setting the dgIdentity attribute in the group's entry to the DN of another LDAP user. In that case the dgIdentity will be used when expanding the URIs in the object. Setting the dgIdentity to a zero-length string will cause the expansions to be performed anonymously. Note that the dgIdentity attribute is defined in the dyngroup schema, and this schema must be loaded before the dgIdentity authorization feature may be used. If the dgAuthz attribute is also present in the group's entry, its values are used to determine what identities are authorized to use the dgIdentity to expand the group. Values of the dgAuthz attribute must conform to the (experimental) OpenLDAP authz syntax. When using dynamic memberOf in search filters, search access to the entryDN pseudo-attribute is required.

This example collects all the email addresses of a database into a single entry; first of all, make sure that slapd.conf contains the directives:

    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:mail

This 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=com

This 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.

/etc/openldap/slapd.conf
default slapd configuration file

The dynlist overlay has been reworked with the 2.5 release to use a consistent namespace as with other overlays. As a side-effect the following cn=config parameters are deprecated and will be removed in a future release: olcDlAttrSet is replaced with olcDynListAttrSet olcDynamicList is replaced with olcDynListConfig

slapd.conf(5), slapd-config(5), slapd(8). The slapo-dynlist(5) overlay supports dynamic configuration via back-config.

Filtering on dynamic groups may return incomplete results if the search operation uses the pagedResults control.

This module was written in 2004 by Pierangelo Masarati for SysNet s.n.c.

Attribute remapping was contributed in 2008 by Emmanuel Dreyfus.

2024/05/21 OpenLDAP 2.6.8