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draft-ietf-ldup-subentry-04.txt
Ed Reed
Reed-Matthews, Inc.
November 5, 2000
LDAP Subentry Schema
1. Status of this Memo
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2. Abstract
This document describes an object class called ldapSubEntry
which MAY be used to indicate operations and management
related entries in the directory, called LDAP Subentries.
To control the visibility of entries of type ldapSubEntry,
a control, ldapSubentriesControl, is also defined.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL",
"SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY",
and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as
described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. The sections below
reiterate these definitions and include some additional
ones.
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3. Definition
3.1 ldapSubEntry Class
( 2.16.840.1.113719.2.142.6.1.1 NAME 'ldapSubEntry'
DESC 'LDAP Subentry class, version 1'
SUP top STRUCTURAL
MAY ( cn ) )
The class ldapSubEntry is intended to be used as a super-
class when defining other structural classes to be used
as LDAP Subentries, and as the structural class to which
Auxiliary classes may be added for application specific
subentry information. Where possible, the use of Auxiliary
classes to extend ldapSubEntries is strongly preferred.
The presence of ldapSubEntry in the list of super-classes
of an entry in the directory makes that entry an LDAP
Subentry. Object classes derived from ldapSubEntry are
themselves considered ldapSubEntry classes, for the purpose
of this discussion.
LDAP Subentries MAY be named by their commonName attribute
[LDAPv3]. Other naming attributes are also permitted.
LDAP Subentries MAY be containers, unlike their [X.501]
counterparts.
LDAP Subentries MAY be contained by, and will usually be
located in the directory information tree immediately
subordinate to, administrative points and/or naming
contexts. Further (unlike X.500 subentries), LDAP
Subentries MAY be contained by other LDAP Subentries (the
way organizational units may be contained by other
organizational units). Deep nestings of LDAP Subentries
are discouraged, but not prohibited.
3.2 LdapSubentriesControl
This control is included in the searchRequest message as
part of the controls field of the LDAPMessage, as defined
in Section 4.1.12 of [RFC2251].
The controlType is set to "TBD". The criticality MAY be set
to either TRUE or FALSE. The controlValue is absent.
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There is no corresponding response control defined.
LDAP Subentries SHOULD be treated as "operational objects"
in much the same way that "operational attributes" are not
regularly provided in search results and read operations
when only user attributes are requested).
In [X.511] a ServiceControl option is used to govern the
visibility of X.500 subentries. The subentry
ServiceControl option is a specific bit of a bitstring
that, when set to TRUE in the common arguments of an X.500
Search or List operation, indicates that the operation is
to access ONLY the subentries found in the context of the
list or search. In fact, normal entries are explicitly NOT
returned in the result of a list or search operation when
the X.500 subentries ServiceControl is set. Entries which
are not subentries may still be referenced in the base
object of list and search operations where the subentries
control is set. The [X.511] subentries ServiceControl has
no meaning for operations other than Search and List (i.e.,
Read, Modify, Delete, etc.).
The ldapSubentriesControl is defined for LDAP to signal to
LDAP Search operations that LDAP Subentries are to be
included in the return set of entries for the Search (with
scopes other than baseObject), provided other Search
criteria (scope, filter) are satisfied.
For Search operations with a scope value of baseObject, the
presence or absence of the ldapSubentriesControl MUST be
ignored. Specifically, baseObject searches applied to
ldapSubEntry entries MUST be evaluated as if the
ldapSubentriesControl is present, even if it is not.
In addition, LDAP servers SHOULD implement the following
special handling of ldapSubEntry entries: search operations
which include a filter "objectclass=ldapSubEntry" MUST
include entries derived from the ldapSubEntry class in the
scope of their operations. This alternative method of
requesting the operation to be applied to entries of
ldapSubEntry class is intuitive, and is specified to
maintain consistency with previous versions of this
document.
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4. Security Considerations
LDAP Subentries will frequently be used to hold data which
reflects either the actual or intended behavior of the
directory service. As such, permission to read such
entries MAY need to be restricted to authorized users.
More importantly, IF a directory service treats the
information in an LDAP Subentry as the authoritative source
of policy to be used to control the behavior of the
directory, then permission to create, modify, or delete
such entries MUST be carefully restricted to authorized
administrators.
5. References
[LDAPv3] S. Kille, M. Wahl, and T. Howes, "Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December 1997
[X.501] ITU-T Rec. X.501, "The Directory: Models", 1993 and
subsequent versions
[X.511] ITU-T Rec. X.501, "The Directory: Abstract Service
Definition", 1993 and subsequent versions.
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7. Acknowledgements
The use of subEntry object class to store Replica and
Replication Agreement information is due primarily to the
lucid explanation by Mark Wahl, (then of Innosoft), of how
they could be used and extended.
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8. Author's Address
Edwards E. Reed
Reed-Matthews, Inc.
1064 E 140 North
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Lindon, UT 84042
USA
E-mail: eer@oncalldba.com
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