Subject: RE: "Authz IDs as only DNs" (in acl-reqts and acl-model) issue

From: "Paul Leach (Exchange)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 23:13:54 -0800

According to 2251:
Entries MAY contain, among others, the following operational
   attributes, defined in [5]. These attributes are maintained
   automatically by the server and are not modifiable by clients:
   - creatorsName: the Distinguished Name of the user who added this
     entry to the directory.

According to 2252:
creatorsName

   This attribute SHOULD appear in entries which were created using the
   Add operation.

Ditto for modifiersName.

It seems to me that if the creatorsName isn't a DN, because the authzid
wasn't a DN, then that's a good reason why the above can't be done, and
hence they are not required by 2251 or 2252 to be done.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 1999 12:21 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Cc: IETF LDAP Extensions WG; Jeff Hodges; RL Bob Morgan
> Subject: Re: "Authz IDs as only DNs" (in acl-reqts and 
> acl-model) issue
> 
> 
> Question:  when the authorization identity is not a DN, what
> should server implementations store (as directed by RFC2251) in
> creatorsname/modifiersname?
> 
> It appears to me that the authzIDs-are-not-necessarily-DNs notion
> implies we also have authzIDs-must-be-representable-as-DNs notion.
> 
> 	Kurt
> 
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> Kurt D. Zeilenga		<[email-masked]>
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