Sun Java System Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.2 Developer's Guide

Description

Call this function to determine if a user has access rights to a specified entry, attribute, or value. The function performs this check for users who request the operation that invokes this plug-in.

For example, suppose you are writing a preoperation plug-in for the add operation. You can call this function to determine if users have the proper access rights before they can add an entry to the directory.

As part of the process of determining if the user has access rights, this function does the following: