On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 23:56 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Sumit Bose wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:42:29PM +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 02:26:34PM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >> > >On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 12:15 +0200, Sumit Bose wrote:
> >> > >>On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:41:51AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >> > >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >> > >>> > From: "Sumit Bose" <sb...@redhat.com>
> >> > >>> > To: "freeipa-devel" <freeipa-devel@redhat.com>
> >> > >>> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 7:41:14 AM
> >> > >>> > Subject: [Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 149] IPA KDB: allow case 
> >> > >>> > in-sensitive realm        in AS request
> >> > >>> >
> >> > >>> > Hi,
> >> > >>> >
> >> > >>> > this patch is my suggestion to solve
> >> > >>> > https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4844 .
> >> > >>> >
> >> > >>> > The original issue in the ticket has two part. One is a loop in 
> >> > >>> > libkrb5
> >> > >>> > which is already fixed. The other is to handle canonicalization 
> >> > >>> > better.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Sorry Sumit,
> >> > >>> I see several issues with this patck.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> first of all you should really not change ipadb_get_principal(), 
> >> > >>> that's the
> >> > >>> wrong place to apply your logic.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> To support searching for the realm name case-insensitively all we 
> >> > >>> should do
> >> > >>> is to always forcibly upper case the realm name at the same time we 
> >> > >>> build the
> >> > >>> filter (in ipadb_fetch_principals(), if canonicalization was 
> >> > >>> requested.
> >> > >>> Because we will never store (code to prevent that should probably be 
> >> > >>> dded with
> >> > >>> this patch) a realm name that is not all caps.
> >> > >>> Then the post search matches should be done straight within 
> >> > >>> ipadb_find_principal().
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> > The general way to allow canonicalization on a principal is to add 
> >> > >>> > the
> >> > >>> > attributes 'krbcanonicalname'[1] and 'ipakrbprincipalalias' 
> >> > >>> > together
> >> > >>> > with the objectclass 'ipaKrbPrincipal' to the user object.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> We have already a ticket open since long to remove 
> >> > >>> krbprincipalalias, it was
> >> > >>> a mistake to add it and any patch that depends on it will be nacked 
> >> > >>> by me.
> >> > >>> We need to use krbPrincipalName and krbCanonicalName.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> > Then the IPA
> >> > >>> > KDB backend will use 'ipakrbprincipalalias' for case in-sensitive
> >> > >>> > matches and  the principal from 'krbcanonicalname' will be the 
> >> > >>> > canonical
> >> > >>> > principal used further on. The 'krbPrincipalName' is not suitable 
> >> > >>> > for
> >> > >>> > either because it has caseExact* matching rules and is a multivalue
> >> > >>> > attribute [2].
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Case-exact match is a problem only if we do not canonicalize names 
> >> > >>> when storing
> >> > >>> them, otherwise all you need to do is store a "search form" in 
> >> > >>> krbPrincipalName
> >> > >>> and always change searches to that form (forcibly upper case realm, 
> >> > >>> forcibly
> >> > >>> lowercase components) when canonicalization is requested.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Additionally in the patch you are using stcasecmp(), that function 
> >> > >>> is not
> >> > >>> acceptable, look at ipadb_find_principal() and you'll see we use 
> >> > >>> ulc_casecmp()
> >> > >>> there.
> >> > >>> Also modyfing the principal before searching is done wrong (you use 
> >> > >>> strchr()
> >> > >>> to find the @ sign, but you could find an @ in the components this 
> >> > >>> way, you
> >> > >>> should use strrchr() at the very least), and is dangerous if done 
> >> > >>> outside of
> >> > >>> the inner functions because then we never have a way to know the 
> >> > >>> original
> >> > >>> form should it be needed. In any case as said above realm should be 
> >> > >>> forcibly
> >> > >>> uppercase, given a flag in the escape function instead.
> >> > >>
> >> > >>Thank for for the review and the comments.
> >> > >>
> >> > >>I changed the patch as you suggested to upper-case the realm in the
> >> > >>escape function if the flag is set.
> >> > >>
> >> > >>I didn't add any checks to make sure that the realm of newly added
> >> > >>principal attributes is always upper case. Since the attributes can be
> >> > >>added via various ways I think the check should happen on the DS level
> >> > >
> >> > >We should indeed intercept add/modify operations and see if they try to
> >> > >set krbPrincipalName/krbCanonicalName and then validate the name.
> >> > >Return unwilling to perform if the case of the realm is different (or
> >> > >fix it on the fly, up for discussion) from the default case as
> >> > >configured in the server.
> >> > Will break trusts -- ipasam does add these principals for krbtgt/IPA@AD.
> >> >
> >> > >>but I see this more in the context of full canonicalization fix covered
> >> > >>by https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3864 . If you think this is 
> >> > >>a
> >> > >>requirement for the patch attached I would suggest to drop
> >> > >>https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4844 and solve it together with
> >> > >>#3864.
> >> > >
> >> > >We should clsoe 4844 as fixed upstream (there *was* a bug in libkrb5).
> >> > >I commented on #3864 about what we can do, and we can also avoid
> >> > >changing the schema.
> >> > Yep.
> >> >
> >> > >So on the new patches, what does "unify" means ? I do not get what it
> >> > >means (so probably it is a poor name), I guess you may want to call it
> >> > >"canonicalization" ? (or even 'canon' to shorten it a bit).
> >> > I have same question. I tried to understand why it is called unify and
> >> > failed.
> >>
> >> I didn't want to use 'canonical' because the result will not be the
> >> canonical name in the general case but only a name we use for searching.
> >> I was thinking about 'normalized' bit this has a special meaning with
> >> unicode. So I came up with 'unify'. But if you prefer 'canon' I can
> >> change it.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > >I think the worst case for a utf8 string is more then length*2, probably
> >> > >more like length*6, unless there is some guarantee around case changes
> >> > >that I am not aware of, that said we could probably just allocate on the
> >> > >stack a fixed size string of a KiB or so, the longest DNS name is 256
> >> > >chars IIRC and a service name can't be that much longer, also usernames
> >> > >can't be arbitrarily long. So 1/2 KiB should probably be fine for a full
> >> > >principal name. (avoids a malloc too which is good).
> >> > Yes, sounds good. A hostname label can be up to 63 characters and full
> >> > domain name including dots would be 253 characters. At the same time, a
> >> > a component of the principal may be of arbitrary length. From practical
> >> > perspective it would probably be enough to go with a static buffer of
> >> > 1/2 KiB for the quickest case and fall back to malloc() if the size is
> >> > bigger than that one.
> >>
> >> ok, I will change this.
> >
> >new version with changed name and 1/2 KiB buffer attached. No changes to
> >the 2nd patch.
> Thanks.
> 
> Patches look good to me. I, perhaps, would have added 
>   char *canon_princ = NULL;
> 
> in the definition of canon_princ but as you never access it in case
> asprintf() failed, that's fine.
> 
> Simo?
> 

LGTM.

Simo.

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