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Mark Craig
06.59.2015 82615c6d9d60c2d17717aa2fb86be25b9d483788
CR-7463 OPENDJ-2178 Document privilege removal

This patch adds a procedure on limiting privileges.
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opendj-sdk/opendj-server-legacy/src/main/docbkx/admin-guide/chap-privileges-acis.xml
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    </screen>
   </step>
  </procedure>
  <procedure xml:id="limit-privileges">
   <title>To Limit Inherited Privileges</title>
   <para>
    When privileges are set as described in
    <xref linkend="change-group-privileges" />,
    the same list of privileges is applied to every target account.
    OpenDJ also assigns default directory root user privileges.
    In some cases the list of inherited privileges can be too broad.
    OpenDJ has a mechanism to limit the privileges assigned
    by preceding the privilege attribute value with a <literal>-</literal>.
   </para>
   <para>
    The following steps show how to prevent Kirsten Vaughan
    from resetting passwords when the privilege is assigned as in
    <xref linkend="change-group-privileges" />.
   </para>
   <step>
    <para>
     Check the privilege settings for the account.
    </para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>ldapsearch \
 --port 1389 \
 --bindDN "cn=Directory Manager" \
 --bindPassword password \
 --baseDN dc=example,dc=com \
 "(uid=kvaughan)" \
 ds-privilege-name</userinput>
<computeroutput>dn: uid=kvaughan,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com
ds-privilege-name: config-read
ds-privilege-name: config-write
ds-privilege-name: ldif-export
ds-privilege-name: modify-acl
ds-privilege-name: password-reset
ds-privilege-name: proxied-auth</computeroutput>
    </screen>
   </step>
   <step>
    <para>
     Set the privilege attribute for the account to remove the privilege.
    </para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>ldapmodify \
 --port 1389 \
 --bindDN "cn=Directory Manager" \
 --bindPassword password
dn: uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
changetype: modify
add: ds-privilege-name
ds-privilege-name: -password-reset
</userinput>
<computeroutput>Processing MODIFY request for uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com
MODIFY operation successful for DN uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com</computeroutput>
    </screen>
   </step>
   <step>
    <para>
     Observe that the privilege is no longer in effect.
    </para>
    <screen>
$ <userinput>ldappasswordmodify \
 --port 1389 \
 --bindDN "uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" \
 --bindPassword bribery \
 --authzID "dn:uid=scarter,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com" \
 --newPassword changeit</userinput>
<computeroutput>The LDAP password modify operation failed with result code 50
Error Message:  You do not have sufficient privileges to perform password
reset operations</computeroutput>
    </screen>
   </step>
  </procedure>
 </section>
 <section xml:id="configure-acis">