using multiple LDAP queries for authorization

18 Dec 2014

      Hi all,

I admit this is quite a complicated first question, but I'm setting up  
FR in a lab to try to replace an existing production deployment of a  
commercial alternative.  Currently, we can permission a user for  
access to some network device via the following tuples (in order of  
less specificity): (user, device) (user, group of devices), (group of  
users, device) (group of users, group of devices).  So we say,  
effectively in pseudocode:

For authorization:
Check if a user with uid=%{User-Name} exists and return the user's group

if exists(acl(user, device)) {
      based on the assigned access profile, query LDAP for the  
approopriate VSAs
} else if exists(acl(user, group of devices)) {
      based on the assigned access profile, query LDAP for the  
approopriate VSAs
} else if exists(acl(usergroup, device)) {
      ....
} else if exists(acl(usergroup,group of devices)) {
      ....
} else
      return reject

For authentication:
    Kerberos

The authentication part is trivial, as is the first check under  
authorization; the existing documentation explains how to do that sort  
of check.  I can see from the unlang manpage how to call out to one or  
the other modules.  Is what I'm trying to do something one can do with  
rlm_ldap, or is it something that would be better done with  
rlm_python.  (Yes, LDAP in python sucks rocks through straws, so I'm  
trying to avoid that if possible.

Thanks,
-c

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