[Freeipa-users] Query IPA for group membership

Fred van Zwieten fvzwieten at vxcompany.com
Fri Oct 5 19:18:16 UTC 2012


Simo,

That sounds easy enough. I will test it asap when I get to work on monday
and let you know.

Thank you (and Dmitri) so far and have a good weekend.

Fred


On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> Fred I suggest you copy the 'login' file into 2 new files: openvpn1 and
> openvn2
>
> Then configure the two instance instance with:
> plugin openvpn_auth_pam openvpn1
> and
> plugin openvpn_auth_pam openvpn2
> respectively.
>
> Then you can create HBAC rules in IPA using openvpn1 and openvon2 as
> service names.
>
> Simo.
>
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 20:58 +0200, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> > Dmitri,
> >
> >
> > Well, this is, sort of, the point. I have no experience using pam, so
> > I have no idea how to set this up.
> >
> >
> > I have authentication up and running, but, like I said, both OpenVPN
> > instances happily authenticate users from both groups of users.
> >
> >
> > In my openvpn config file i have:
> >
> >
> > plugin openvpn_auth_pam login
> >
> >
> > where login is the /etc/pam.d/login file. I have not adjusted this
> > file. This is standard file for IPA client.
> >
> >
> > So, my idea was to do this in openvpn config file:
> >
> >
> > plugin openvpn_auth_pam login (can the user authenticate y/n?)
> > plugin openvpn_auth_pam check_group name USERNAME group OPENVPN1 (is
> > the user member op OPENVPN1 y/n?)
> >
> >
> > plugin openvpn_auth_pam is afaik the only way to get OpenVPN to
> > authenticate against IPA. I am not sure how this could be setup to
> > work with HBAC..
> >
> >
> > Fred
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:
> >         On 10/05/2012 02:13 PM, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> >         > You are completely right :-)
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Both IPA server and client are RHEL6.3 x86_64 boxes.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On the OpenVPN server (which is an IPA client), I have 2
> >         > OpenVPN instances running, because different users must end
> >         > up in different subnet's
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > OpenVPN instance 1 listens on port 50000
> >         > OpenVPN instance 2 listens on port 50001
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Users for subnet 1 must connect and authenticate on instance
> >         > 1 (and get an IP in subnet 1)
> >         > Users for subnet 2 must connect and authenticate on instance
> >         > 2 (and get an IP in subnet 2)
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Both OpenVPN instances use the login pam module.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > In this setup I can not prevent users for subnet 2 to
> >         > connect and authenticate successfully on OpenVPN instance 1.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > So, I would like to put the users for OpenVPN instance 1 in
> >         > group OpenVPN1 en users for OpenVPN instance 2 in group
> >         > OpenVPN2 on IPA.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Next, the OpenVPN daemon must be able to check a user for
> >         > membership. Is it is not a member, false is returned, and
> >         > the OpenVMN authentication fails.
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > Documentation for the openvpn_auth_pam is here.
> >         >
> >         >
> >
> >
> >         OK, makes sense.
> >         How does you pam configuration look like?
> >         Especially the accounting part? What modules do you have
> >         there?
> >         Can it be PAM module you are using expecting some value that
> >         need to be configured in openvpn_auth_pam config?
> >
> >         > Fred
> >         >
> >         >
> >         > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>
> >         > wrote:
> >         >         On 10/05/2012 01:36 PM, Fred van Zwieten wrote:
> >         >         > Hello,
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > I have a IPA server running. This server has users
> >         >         > who are member to various groups. I want to query
> >         >         > the IPA server from an IPA client to know whether
> >         >         > a user is a member to a group.
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > I want to do this from the OpenVPN service using
> >         >         > the openvpn_auth_pam.so. Normally one uses this
> >         >         > like this:
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > openvpn_auth_pam.so login
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > This queries the PAM login (and thus IPA) is the
> >         >         > username/password from openvpn is valid. the
> >         >         > "login" is /etc/pam.d/login. OpenVPN docs say you
> >         >         > could use other modules instead of login.
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > So, I would like to add the next line:
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > openvpn_auth_pam.so group <username> "openvpn"
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Where a /etc/pam.d/group file would check whether
> >         >         > the user is member of the group "openvpn". If not,
> >         >         > false is returned and the login attempt (thru
> >         >         > openvpn) fails.
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Is this possible? If not is there a better way?
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         > Fred
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >
> >         >         Can you step up from the implementation and explain
> >         >         what you want to accomplish?
> >         >         It seems that you want to use OpenVPN and do some
> >         >         access control checks when user connects to OpenVPN.
> >         >         Right?
> >         >         If you can describe the flow of operations we might
> >         >         be able guide you to the right solution.
> >         >
> >         >         Also would be nice to understand what OS OpenVPN is
> >         >         running on.
> >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
> >         >         >
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> >         >
> >         >         --
> >         >         Thank you,
> >         >         Dmitri Pal
> >         >
> >         >         Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
> >         >         Red Hat Inc.
> >         >
> >         >
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> >         --
> >         Thank you,
> >         Dmitri Pal
> >
> >         Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
> >         Red Hat Inc.
> >
> >
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