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dbs
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 Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:40 am Post subject: LDAP Client configuration for authentication? |
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I'd like to use my Zeroshell server as an LDAP authentication host, but I can't seem to get the configuration stable.
Right now 'finger' works correctly on an LDAP account, but doing 'id' against them (or anything else that requires an actual auth lookup) does not.
I've changed /etc/nsswitch.conf to say 'ldap' for group and passwd:
| Code: | passwd: compat ldap
group: compat ldap |
My ldap.conf has:
| Code: | base dc=interlude,dc=homeport,dc=org
uri ldap://192.168.1.2:389/
ldap_version 3
bindpw (redacted)
rootbinddn cn=admin,dc=interlude,dc=homeport,dc=org |
When trying to do an 'id' on an ldap-hosted account, I see in /var/log/auth.log:
| Code: | | nscd: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://192.168.1.2:389/: Invalid credentials |
What am I doing wrong? I'd like to make my LDAP server on the zeroshell box my definitive authentication mechanism (this is a staging environment for a production setup). Help? |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:52 am Post subject: |
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Use
rootbinddn cn=manager,dc=interlude,dc=homeport,dc=org
or anomymous bind.
Do not forget that Zeroshell uses LDAP only for authorisation. The authentication is managed by Kerberos5 and hence the hash of the password is not stored in LDAP.
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Fulvio |
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dbs
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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I do apologize for the n00b questions - authentication services are relatively new for me (though I used to admin NIS servers. Weep for me)
| fulvio wrote: | Use
rootbinddn cn=manager,dc=interlude,dc=homeport,dc=org
or anomymous bind. |
Hmm, I don't have a login called 'manager'. I do have the default 'admin' account - that's what I've been using - should I not use that? Also, does this negate the need for 'bindpw'?
| fulvio wrote: | | Do not forget that Zeroshell uses LDAP only for authorisation. The authentication is managed by Kerberos5 and hence the hash of the password is not stored in LDAP. |
Alright, I barely know Kerberos, so I need ot learn that. What I understand here is that I must set up a kerberos server/client configuration (get a client key generated, etc), and set up the shared keys - LDAP will be used for authorization ("Yes, there's a person named bob"), and k5 will be used for authentication ("and they can access this machine.") ?
Thanks again! |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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The manager user shares the password with admin.
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Fulvio |
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dbs
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 3:09 am Post subject: |
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| fulvio wrote: | | The manager user shares the password with admin. |
Changing the rootbinddn to 'manager' allowed it to work - now 'id' operations are working, but logins still are not.
Is there a guide to setting up Kerberos to work with Zeroshell? |
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yum
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| I'd suggest you using Fedora distribution. There is an utility called "authconfig-tui", which works perfectly. You just have to specify "LDAP" for authorization, "Kerberos" for authentificaton, provide Zeroshell's IP-address for both services, input LDAP base dn and Kerberos realm based on domain name. No need to edit configuration files by hand. |
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dbs
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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| yum wrote: | | I'd suggest you using Fedora distribution. There is an utility called "authconfig-tui", which works perfectly. You just have to specify "LDAP" for authorization, "Kerberos" for authentificaton, provide Zeroshell's IP-address for both services, input LDAP base dn and Kerberos realm based on domain name. No need to edit configuration files by hand. |
While I appreciate the information, and I found similar info out on the net, replacing my distribution is not an option just to get this working. I'll continue working on finding the answers elsewhere.
My goal is to have the Zeroshell box essentially function as an ActiveDirectory server - providing a single authentication / authorization service to a range of client machines (windows, linux, mac, etc). On those boxes, I'll need to set up services for shell access, http authorization, and SAMBA services.
Any pointers to guides for these services would be helpful, but "replace your OS with this version" is not really an option, thanks. |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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For Linux clients you need to configure pam_krb5.so in the PAM configuration files. In any case, several Linux distributions have their tools for automatic authorisation and authentication configuration.
To check if the LDAP is correctly configured to provide user information, use the command:
getent passwd
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Fulvio |
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dbs
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| fulvio wrote: | | For Linux clients you need to configure pam_krb5.so in the PAM configuration files. In any case, several Linux distributions have their tools for automatic authorisation and authentication configuration. |
Okay, I'll work on this for ubuntu, and let ya'll know.
| fulvio wrote: | To check if the LDAP is correctly configured to provide user information, use the command:
getent passwd |
This just shows my local accounts, no LDAP accounts. (ala, getent passwd <enter> shows a list of accounts. getent passwd | grep (a known ldap user) shows nothing. |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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You should better configure the file /etc/nsswitch.conf by using the line
passwd: files ldap
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Fulvio |
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dbs
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| fulvio wrote: | You should better configure the file /etc/nsswitch.conf by using the line
passwd: files ldap |
I'm just getting online now - note the beginning of this thread, I'm using 'compat ldap' - is there a difference? |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| If you use compat you need to specify +: in the /etc/passwd |
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panther
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:46 am Post subject: |
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I don't know if this helps, but I had to add these three lines to /etc/ldap.conf to get my connection to work for 'getent passwd'.
ssl no
tls_cacertdir /etc/ssl/certs
pam_password md5
I would also love to figure out why I can't get Apache to authorize a directory with LDAP from Zeroshell. I've done the following:
<Location>
DAV svn
SVNParentPath /var/svn
SVNListparentPath on
AuthType Basic
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative on
AuthName "svn-ldap"
AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://zeroshell.local:389/dc=SPG?uid?sub?(objectClass=*)"
AuthLDAPBindDN "cn=manager,dc=SPG"
AuthLDAPBindPassword <mypassword>
AuthLDAPGroupAttributeIsDN on
AuthLDAPGroupAttribute member
SSLRequireSSL
Require valid-user
</Location>
And all I ever get is invalid credentials. When doing ldapsearch -x, I can log into LDAP as long as I use simple connections without a password. However, I have *never* been able to log in with any of my users or their passwords. What am I doing wrong? The weird thing is, I have another machine that came pre-installed with other software which *does* allow logins, so it must be something I've missed. Any ideas?
Thanks,
JH |
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yum
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Hi, panther!
Zeroshell doesn't store passwords in LDAP. It is impossible to authentificate against Zeroshell's LDAP. I think you can use mod_auth_pam / mod_auth_kerb instead to authentificate againts Zeroshell's Kerberos. |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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You are right. Zeroshell authorise with LDAP and authenticate only with Kerberos5 and RADIUS.
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Fulvio |
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jhughes
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:07 am Post subject: |
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For whatever reason, I could never get rootbinddn to work until I logged into my zeroshell machine through SSH and manually added the line:
rootbinddn cn=manager,dc=SPG
There's one already there, but it's commented out by default. Then, I had to create a file /etc/ldap.secret and put my login password there, and chmod 600.
Once complete, at least different LDAP clients successfully authenticate. Most of the ones I've been playing with--OpenFiler and Redmine, specifically--refuse to auth when connecting to an LDAP server without a password. I'm kind of new to this, so I could be completely wrong.  |
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fulvio
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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The rootbinddn is available in the file /etc/ldap.conf that just can affect the OpenLDAP clients and not the slapd daemon (OpenLDAP server). It is strange that modifying it in Zeroshell it fixes your problem.
In any case, do not forget that Zeroshell cannot authenticate by using LDAP. The authentication is delegated to Kerberos5.
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Fulvio |
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