[Freeipa-users] Problem migrating passwords fro NIS to IdM

[Roderick Johnstone]

On 18/11/2014 22:19, Dmitri Pal wrote:
> On 11/18/2014 12:57 PM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I'm trying to migrate some nis accounts to RHEL 6 IdM while still
>> keeping the original passwords.
>>
>> I followed the instructions at:
>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/NIS_accounts_migration_preserving_Passwords
>>
>> The passwords are in SHA-512 format and I have been testing the
>> migration with commands like this (generated via a script from my nis
>> passwd file) on my IdM server:
>>
>> $ ipa user-add xxx --first=NIS --last=USER --gidnumber=xxxx --uid=xxxx
>> '--gecos=test account' --homedir=/home/xxxx --shell=/bin/bash
>> --setattr userpassword='{SHA-512}xxxxxxx'
>>
>> where the xxxxxxx is the hashed password from the NIS password file
>> with the leading $6$ stripped off.
>>
>> Then I remove nis from the passwd: line in /etc/nsswitch.conf so I'm
>> left with:
>> passwd:     files   sss
>>
>> and the account that I migrated cannot log in.
>>
>> From the sssd log file (below) it looks like its trying to migrate the
>> password but failing with an LDAP authentication failure.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any pointers to how to find out whats going wrong here.
>>
>> Accounts which I created manually in the web gui are working ok.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Roderick Johnstone
>>
>> Part of sssd log file
>> =====================
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [set_server_common_status] (0x0100): Marking server 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'
>> as 'working'
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [fo_set_port_status] (0x0400): Marking port 0 of duplicate server
>> 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' as 'working'
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [ipa_migration_flag_connect_done] (0x0400): Assuming Kerberos password
>> is missing, starting password migration.
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]] [simple_bind_send]
>> (0x0100): Executing simple bind as:
>> uid=xxx,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx,dc=xxx
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]] [simple_bind_done]
>> (0x0400): Bind result: Invalid credentials(49), no errmsg set
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [ipa_auth_ldap_done] (0x0080): LDAP authentication failed, Password
>> migration not possible.
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [be_pam_handler_callback] (0x0100): Backend returned: (0, 8, <NULL>)
>> [Success]
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [be_pam_handler_callback] (0x0100): Sending result [8][xxx.xxx.xxx]
>> (Tue Nov 18 10:47:22 2014) [sssd[be[xxx.xxx.xxx]]]
>> [be_pam_handler_callback] (0x0100): Sent result [8][xxx.xxx.xxx]
>>
>
> Did you enable migration mode on the IPA server?
>

Yes, I ran:
ipa config-mod --enable-migration=true
on the IPA server.

Roderick