[Freeipa-devel] LDAPI + autobind instead of Kerberos (for named)?

Thu Jun 19 13:41:28 UTC 2014

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Simo Sorce wrote:
>On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 14:13 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> >On 19.6.2014 11:02, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
>> >>On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, Petr Spacek wrote:
>> >>>the thread "named's LDAP connection hangs" on freeipa-users list [1] opened
>> >>>question "Why do we use Kerberos for named<->DS connection? Named connects
>> >>>over LDAPI to local DS instance anyway."
>> >>>
>> >>>Maybe we can get rid of Kerberos for this particular connection and use
>> >>>autobind instead. It would make it more reliable and effective.
>> >>>
>> >>>As a side effect, named will be able to start even if KDC is down for some
>> >>>reason. It partially solves chicken-egg problem during IPA start-up.
>> >>>
>> >>>I wasn't around when it bind-dyndb-ldap was designed so I don't know
>> >>>historical reasons.
>> >>My primary worry is the fact that any break in named/bind-dyndb-ldap
>> >>could be then exploited to have access to all key material. In the case of
>> >>GSSAPI you are confined to whatever ACIs allow for dns/ principal.
>> >IMHO autobind maps uid+gid to a DN and normal ACIs apply after that so
>> >I don't see any difference from using SASL/GSSAPI/Kerberos.
>> My impression was that you wanted autobind to Directory Manager (root
>> autobind), this is what I don't want to support, for sure.
>>
>> >>Samba case goes further -- I specifically added GSSAPI bind to Samba
>> >>code LDAP code to allow splitting DCs and file servers while being able
>> >>to use the same ipasam module securely, in addition to the usual
>> >>ACI limitations.
>> >Named has only one function (i.e. DNS server with support for DNS
>> >updates). I don't think that there is meaningful separation.
>> >
>> >>For named what we could do is to have named+ldapi:// access mapped to
>> >>specific DN uidNumber=<named>+gidNumbe=<named>,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
>> >This is OpenLDAP-ism, right?
>> yes, this is what the client code reports. 389-ds server sees proper dn:
>>
>> # ipa service-mod DNS/ipa-01.t.vda.li at T.VDA.LI \
>>   --addattr=objectclass=posixgroup --addattr=objectclass=posixaccount \
>>   --setattr=cn=DNS/ipa-01.t.vda.li --setattr=uidNumber=25 \
>>   --setattr=gidNumber=25 --setattr=HomeDirectory=/var/named \
>>   --setattr=uid=named
>> -----------------------------------------------
>> Modified service "DNS/ipa-01.t.vda.li at T.VDA.LI"
>> -----------------------------------------------
>>   Principal: DNS/ipa-01.t.vda.li at T.VDA.LI
>>   Managed by: ipa-01.t.vda.li
>>
>> # su -l named -s /bin/bash -c 'ldapsearch -Y EXTERNAL -H ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-T-VDA-LI.socket cn=config '
>> SASL/EXTERNAL authentication started
>> SASL username: gidNumber=25+uidNumber=25,cn=peercred,cn=external,cn=auth
>> SASL SSF: 0
>> # extended LDIF
>> #
>> # LDAPv3
>> # base <dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li> (default) with scope subtree
>> # filter: cn=config
>> # requesting: ALL
>> #
>>
>> # search result
>> search: 2
>> result: 0 Success
>>
>> # numResponses: 1
>>
>> and here is what we see in the logs:
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 AUTOBIND dn="krbprincipalname=dns/ipa-01.t.vda.li at t.vda.li,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li"
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 op=0 BIND dn="krbprincipalname=dns/ipa-01.t.vda.li at t.vda.li,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li" method=sasl version=3 mech=EXTERNAL
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 op=0 RESULT err=0 tag=97 nentries=0 etime=0 dn="krbprincipalname=dns/ipa-01.t.vda.li at t.vda.li,cn=services,cn=accounts,dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li"
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 op=1 SRCH base="dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li" scope=2 filter="(cn=config)" attrs=ALL
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 op=1 RESULT err=0 tag=101 nentries=0 etime=0
>> [19/Jun/2014:14:04:24 +0300] conn=177 op=2 UNBIND
>>
>>
>> >
>> >>   dn: krbprincipalname=dns/$master@$REALM,cn=services,cn=accounts,$SUFFIX
>> >This object already exists for every single DNS server, which is
>> >exactly the problem. Multiple servers are running under the same
>> >UID/GID pair on Fedora.
>> No, it is not a problem because there are multiple objects, one per
>> server.
>>
>> >>There is an issue of uid/gid being different on different platforms,
>> >>though but it is doable.
>> >I can see the problem with UID/GID mapping to multiple different
>> >principals. We can't remove these principals because they are used on
>> >server side for DNS updates.
>> >
>> >Maybe we can create autobind mapping objects in some non-replicated
>> >part of the tree. That would solve the problem with different UID/GIDs
>> >on different platforms and also mapping UID/GID mapping to multiple
>> >principals because one replica would see only one mapping object for
>> >given UID/GID.
>> No, I don't think we ever need to modify anything here apart from giving
>> posixgroup/posixaccount object classes to the DNS principal per server
>> and setting their properties.
>>
>> As you can see above, it simply works. I actually tested it with named
>> too, by setting
>>
>> diff -up /etc/named.conf.old /etc/named.conf
>> --- /etc/named.conf.old	2014-06-19 14:10:40.725934702 +0300
>> +++ /etc/named.conf	2014-06-19 14:10:58.432601624 +0300
>> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ dynamic-db "ipa" {
>>  	arg "base cn=dns, dc=t,dc=vda,dc=li";
>>  	arg "fake_mname ipa-01.t.vda.li.";
>>  	arg "auth_method sasl";
>> -	arg "sasl_mech GSSAPI";
>> -	arg "sasl_user DNS/ipa-01.t.vda.li";
>> +	arg "sasl_mech EXTERNAL";
>> +	arg "sasl_user named";
>>  	arg "serial_autoincrement yes";
>>  };
>>
>> and named successfully started, with 389-ds showing autobind to the same
>> krprincipalname=dns/... in the logs.
>
>why do we need to associate bind to dns/whatever ??
Because we already have ACIs given to dns/hostname to handle DNS
entries.

>
>we can have a sysaccount called named, like we did for kerberos before
>we had the ipa-kdb driver.
A modification of DNS service with 'ipa service-mod' is all what we
need for single node case, I tried it.

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/ Alexander Bokovoy