[Freeipa-users] Deploying freeipa behind nginx

[Sumit Bose]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:29:07PM -0800, Steve Severance wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I have deployed freeipa inside our production network. I want to be able to
> access the web ui so I am attempting to add it to our nginx edge machine. I
> can pass the requests upstream just fine but I am unable to login using a
> username/password. I have enabled password authentication in the kerberos
> section of the freeipa httpd config file. In the logs it looks like the
> authentication succeeds and a ticket is issued. I assume that the cookie
> that is returned (ipa_session) has the authentication information in it.
> The subsequent call to get json data fails and I am prompted to login again.
> 
> I found this thread (
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/freeipa-users/2013-August/msg00080.html)
> which has instructions on adding ipa.mydomain.com to the keytab. When I
> call ipa-getkeytab it hangs for a bit before returning: ldap_sasl_bind(SIMPLE):
> Can't contact LDAP server (-1)
> 
> Digging into this if I run: ldapsearch -d 1 -v -H ldaps://ldap.mydomain.com
> 
> I get:
> ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method (-6)
>         additional info: SASL(-4): no mechanism available:

Does it work if you add the mechanism explicitly, e.g. 'ldapsearch -Y
GSSAPI ....' ?

bye,
Sumit

> 
> So we seem to have a SASL problem. If I run ldapsearch with -x simple
> authentication works just fine.
> 
> Do I need to do something special to enable SASL so I can get the keytab?
> The ipa-getkeytab command does not seem to have an option to use simple
> authentication.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Steve

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