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Larry McCay commented on KNOX-537:
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[[email protected]] - Thank you for the additional details and instructions!
I look forward to trying this out and finally getting it into a release.
[~hkropp] and [[email protected]] - we are trying to rationalize a handful
of LDAP improvement JIRAs into the ones that would make the largest impact and
hopefully provide an anchor for consistency across the ecosystem. Take a look
at KIP-1 here
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KNOX/KIP-1+LDAP+Improvements it
maps out a number of alternatives.
Please feel free to provide your insights on the email thread cited in that KIP
or here.
> Linux PAM Authentication Provider
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: KNOX-537
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-537
> Project: Apache Knox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Server
> Affects Versions: 0.5.0, 0.6.0, 0.7.0
> Environment: All
> Reporter: Jeffrey E Rodriguez
> Assignee: Henning Kropp
> Labels: knox, pam
> Fix For: 0.10.0
>
> Attachments: 0001-knox-537-add-pam-authentication-support.patch,
> KNOX-537.patch
>
> Original Estimate: 168h
> Remaining Estimate: 168h
>
> OS level PAM security provides great interface for authentication and
> authorization. For example, sssd provides support for manage Active
> Directory nested OU by adjusting ldap_group_nesting_level = 5. Knox
> configuration is configured to interact with LDAP directly, but this has two
> short cominges. First, hgh volume traffic is likely to make too many
> queries to AD without cache. Second, complex logic of LDAP queries can not
> map correctly to UserDnTemplate without adding more ldap specific logic into
> JndiLdapRealm code and parameters.
> Knox can be improved to use PAM to out source complex OS to AD interaction to
> sssd. It is possible to implement a shiro PAM plugin to reduce the complex
> LDAP logic that is starting to accumulate in Knox.
> Looks like there is a least a start for this here.
> https://github.com/plaflamme/shiro-libpam4j
> libpam4j is available via Maven and uses an MIT license
> http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jvnet.libpam4j/libpam4j/1.4
> This might be a great addition to Knox.
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