[Fedora-directory-users] Switching off host filter in admin server - how?

[Richard Megginson]

Graham Leggett wrote:

> Richard Megginson wrote:
>
>>> Having got my brand new DS v1.0.2 up and running, and the admin 
>>> server started up, I discover that the admin server has arbitrarily 
>>> placed a host check of *.domain.com onto the server, effectively 
>>> locking me out of the admin server (my client machine is not in 
>>> *.domain.com).
>>
>
>> See http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:AdminServerLDAPMgmt
>> and
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183925
>
>
> I don't follow - I need to download the source, apply the patch in the 
> above bug, then rebuild the entire thing before I have any hope of 
> administering this server?

no, you just need to supply a pattern which _does not match_ the 
incoming IP address.  Then it will allow it.  It's backwards.

>
> Is there some kind of manual override that I can use to switch this 
> behaviour off? Or alternatively if this is not possible, to require 
> localhost so that I can run the admin server behind a reverse proxy 
> whose access control does work properly?
>
> Having changed the *.domain.com to * I am now getting this error:
>
> [Sat Mar 04 10:42:50 2006] [notice] [client xx.xx.xx.xx] 
> admserv_host_ip_check: Unauthorized host ip=xx.xx.xx.xx, connection 
> rejected
>
> Google finds other people with this problem, apparently "*" doesn't 
> mean "let everybody in", but instead it means "let everyone in whose 
> reverse DNS works". In this case reverse DNS does work, but I may be 
> getting bitten by bug 183925.
>
> So in short, does the admin server in v1.0.2 work at all, or am I just 
> wasting my time? :(
>
> Regards,
> Graham
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