[Freeipa-users] dns stops working after upgrade

Wed Nov 5 15:20:14 UTC 2014

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 04:09:18PM +0100, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I don't know about foreman upstream, the current version that I am using
> included in the katello installation is 1.6
> And the foreman manpage still requires the configuration of the
> realm-smart-proxy.
> http://www.theforeman.org/manuals/1.6/index.html#4.3.9Realm
>
> About the snapshot:
> I removed all the katello entries from my current freeipa installation ( I
> peeked in the script to see what it did )
>   - user (foreman-realm)
>   - role (Smart Host Proxy Manager)
>   - privilege (Smart Host Proxy Management)
>   - 3 custom permissions ( modify host password, write host certificate,
> modify host userclass )
> applied the update to freeipa 4.1.
> my local dns zones did not resolv again
> running the ipa-ldap-updater did not fix it

It's more like 12 permissions for that privilege, the complaints of
missing permissions you saw is because they've changed names in FreeIPA
4, you can try this script instead:
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stbenjam/smart-proxy/8278/sbin/foreman-prepare-realm


> So I guess that it is not due to the katello integration or the
> realm-smart-proxy script.
>
> Rob
>
> 2014-11-05 14:39 GMT+01:00 Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com>:
>
> > On 4.11.2014 17:15, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> >
> >> The problem with 'foreman-prepare-realm' and freeipa was that it claimed
> >> that a few o thef permissions required did not exist when it tried to add
> >> them to the 'smart proxy host management' privilege.
> >>
> >> I think it was because the permissions were all in lower case without the
> >> 'System: ' prefix. This is just an assumption since I did not get to work
> >> even after adding them manually. So I figured to try it again after
> >> reverting back to 3.3.5.
> >>
> >> After downgrading I learned that it did not work due to a bug in a ruby
> >> script. (fixed by commenting out line 505-506
> >> in /usr/share/ruby/xmlrpc/client.rb on the katello host, see
> >> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8182 and
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1071187 )
> >>
> >> After which I tried the upgrade again.
> >>
> >> regarding
> >> https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/wiki/BIND9/NamedCannotStart
> >> I did look again using the kredentials as mentioned in step 4. and saw
> >> only
> >> 3 objects (1x idnsConfigObject 2x nsContainer)
> >> When using admin credentials I saw all the dns zone entries.
> >>
> >> I can see the zone entries in the ipa gui.
> >>
> >> Also when I look at the permissions in ipa there are no longer any
> >> permissions that have the 'System: ' prefix.
> >>
> >
> > AFAIK the foreman proxy is not necessary (and not supported) with IPA 4.x
> > because it was obsoleted by 'native' proxy delivered by Foreman upstream.
> >
> > Am I right, Rob (Crittenden)? :-)
> >
> > Anyway, back to your DNS problem. Did it worked before you installed
> > Foreman proxy? Or not? I.e. is it working when you revert the snapshot?
> >
> > Do you have other replicas in the replication topology? Please keep in
> > mind that changes in LDAP (including changes to permissions) are replicated
> > so reverting one VM and not others is not necessarily enough.
> >
> > Petr^2 Spacek
> >
> >
> >  2014-11-04 15:52 GMT+01:00 Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com>:
> >>
> >>  On 4.11.2014 15:27, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>  Hello again,
> >>>>
> >>>> I've managed to integrate my katello configuration with freeipa.
> >>>> Now I not only use freeipa authentication in katello but also when a
> >>>> host
> >>>> is defined in katello it automagically gets created in the freeipa
> >>>> realm ,
> >>>> certs, otp,dns all working great.
> >>>>
> >>>> however, to obtain all this integration greatness I had to downgrade my
> >>>> freeipa to 3.3.5 again (revert snapshot) because the katello realm
> >>>> integration tool (foreman-prepare-realm) is not capable of dealing with
> >>>> 4.X
> >>>> versions of freeipa.
> >>>>
> >>>>  It would be nice if you could get tell us more details about the
> >>> problem
> >>> you had with Katello, AFAIK we are not aware of any.
> >>>
> >>>   And now the named-pkcs11 again does not see my internal zones.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> This page
> >>>> https://fedorahosted.org/bind-dyndb-ldap/wiki/BIND9/NamedCannotStart
> >>>> thinks
> >>>> I should contact the freeipa-users list
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>> Do I understand correctly that you did all the steps 0-4 successfully and
> >>> then you found out that you can't see DNS objects in LDAP (step 5) when
> >>> using ldapsearch with DNS principal?
> >>>
> >>> Can you see the objects in IPA web UI or CLI? If it is the case then we
> >>> will need help from LDAP ACI expert (pviktori? :-).
> >>>
> >>> Petr^2 Spacek
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>   The command 'ipa-ldap-updater
> >>>
> >>>> /usr/share/ipa/updates/55-pbacmemberof.update' didn't fix it.
> >>>> and the command 'ipa-ldap-updater' didn't fix it either.
> >>>>
> >>>> So I am now stuck at freeipa 3.3.5 again (with a working katello
> >>>> integration, so I got some mixed emotions about it)
> >>>> Any ideas anyone ?
> >>>> Rob
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 2014-10-29 22:14 GMT+01:00 Rob Verduijn <rob.verduijn at gmail.com>:
> >>>>
> >>>>   Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've tested the update again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The bind-utils conflict is still there when I issue "yum update
> >>>>> freeipa-server" ( as indicated on the freeipa 4.1 download page
> >>>>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Downloads#Upgrading )
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 'yum update' works fine
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My internal zones didn't resolv after the update
> >>>>> ipa-ldap-updater /usr/share/ipa/updates/55-pbacmemberof.update didn't
> >>>>> fix
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> ipa-ldap-updater did fix the 'access control instructions' and my
> >>>>> internal
> >>>>> dns zones started to resolv again :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cheers
> >>>>> Rob
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2014-10-29 18:14 GMT+01:00 Petr Spacek <pspacek at redhat.com>:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>   On 29.10.2014 16:46, Rob Verduijn wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   Hello,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> # ipa-ldap-updater /usr/share/ipa/updates/55-pbacmemberof.update
> >>>>>>>     fixes the problem.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I can resolv my internal dns zones again:-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Many thanx.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Since this problem happened every time I tried to update the freeipa
> >>>>>>> server.
> >>>>>>> I could re-run the update with some debug options if you like so you
> >>>>>>> can
> >>>>>>> pinpoint what goes wrong with the update script if you like.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  I have re-build some packages in mkosek's CORP so now you should
> >>>>>> not see
> >>>>>> encounter dependency problems. Simple 'yum upgrade' should give you
> >>>>>> all
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> required packages.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We are looking at other problems in upgrade process right now so there
> >>>>>> is
> >>>>>> not much to test except package dependencies.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>

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