[Samba] LDAP_MATCHING_RULE_IN_CHAIN no longer working after upgrade?

[Jonathan Hunter]

(I meant 'ldp', of course, which is the graphical tool I used for
exploring and setting permissions - rather than 'ldifde'). I'm just
wondering if there is a commandline way to view permissions on objects
in the tree, ideally from samba / Linux but perhaps from Windows.

On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 17:33, Jonathan Hunter <jmhunter1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 01:03, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> > Are you sure that the ACLs on all the items in the chain should allow reading?
>
> It's an excellent question, thank you - I'd like to just say "Yes" but
> I will certainly check, as it's of course possible that my domain was
> misconfigured previously, and the change has in fact introduced
> correct behaviour..
>
> Am I right in thinking that the objects I need to look at are
> - the group itself
> - all (some?) members of the group
> - any others?
>
> Are permissions checked in a hiearchical fashion, i.e. if OU=myou does
> not allow a particular user to read it, then would
> CN=somegroup,OU=myou still be denied regardless of the explicit
> permissions on the CN=somegroup,OU=myou object? And I believe I'm
> correct in thinking that a user can be a member of a group, even
> though that user might not have permission to read the group
> themselves...?
>
> Is there a programmatical way of viewing permissions on all these
> objects, or am I best manually going through with the 'ldifde'
> Windows tool (which I think is what I originally used to set the
> permissions in the first place)?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Jonathan
>
> --
> "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
> research, would it?"
>       - Albert Einstein



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