On 16/11/2012 12:11 PM, Dmitri Pal wrote:
On 11/16/2012 10:59 AM, Qing Chang wrote:
just migrated all my user from OpenLDAP and MIT Kerberos to IPA.
Out of more than 400 users, there are around 10 that have problem
accessing Samba or Dovecot IMAP or ssh.
They never have problem login to ipa/ipa/ui/login.html.
For Dovecot IMAP following error is generated:
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Nov 16 10:15:03 dovecot2 auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0
euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=uesrid rhost=IP user=userid
Nov 16 10:15:03 dovecot2 auth: pam_sss(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0
euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=userid rhost=IP user=useris
Nov 16 10:15:03 dovecot2 auth: pam_sss(dovecot:auth): received for user userid:
4 (System error)
Hello Qing
There are several things to do:
1) Compare entries of the users that login with no problems and users that have problems. There
might be some attributes different (absent/present). That might give a hint of what might be
wrong. We have seen some issues in this area related to Samba.
2) Can you please enable the higher debug_level in SSSD and provide the SSSD logs + sssd.conf that
would help to see what is going on with the user that is failing.
3) Also if you can describe your environment of how all the parts work together and what are the
workflows in which you see the problem/issue. I am personally not familiar with Dovecot in details
so I assume that Dovecot is configured to use PAM for the authentication and the snippet above is
from that authentication. Is this the correct assumption?
Thanks
Dmitri
Dmitri,
appreciate your prompt response. I having being on this thing for past day and
a half,
I think I now understand the issues and found fix/workaround for them.
1, Samba + IPA: when this attribute sambaPwdLastSet is set to 0, a samba mapping
request will cause samba to CLEAR sambaLMPassword and sambaNTPassword
attributes, yes, not set password to something, but the attributes are
wiped out.
This may only apply to my situation because I HAVE to use samba 3.0.23d, a
ancient version!! Originally when I migrated users from OpenLDAP,
sambaPwdLastSet
has a none zero value for every account. As users migrated their password
properly,
the value was not touch. But, if someone's password has to be reset (too
short, forgotten)
by us admin user using the UI, sambaPwdLastSet is set to 0. This explains
why the
problem is not wide spread.
Fix/workaround: change sambaPwdLastSet to a sensible value after a password
reset by admin.
Question: is this a designed behavior for IPA? Or does migrate-mode or not
make difference?
2, Dovecot + IPA: it is not an IPA issue but sss cache timeout issue, I read
it's 90 min?
When a user changes his/her password, the cache usually is not updated,
hence
problem checking IMAP email with new password.
Fix/workaround:
\rm /var/lib/sss/db/cache_sri.utoronto.ca.ldb
service sssd restart
This is really heavy handed, but I can not find the sss_cache utility any
where for
RHEL 6.3!
Question: is there a way to shorten the timeout period? Where can I find
sss_cache?
I have great confidence in IPA now, big part of it is because of this list!!
Many thanks,
Qing
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For Samba, it appears that a mapping request never gets to Samba server because
nothing is logged for a problematic user ID although I have turned on excessive
logging.
What is really frustrating is that there is no pattern to be found, even my
fellow
Sysadmin's ID is also in trouble.
Also, in his case, he has no problem with Dovecot. For another user ID Samba
works
but not Dovecot. It looks to me there might be some problem with sssd on the
different servers?
BTW, for at least one user, creating a brand new account for samba did not work
either,
while the trick worked for another user:-(.
Please shed some light on this. I don't mind opening a case with RedHat support
if necessary.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
ipa-server.x86_64 2.2.0-16.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6
sssd.x86_64 1.8.0-32.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6
sssd-client.x86_64 1.8.0-32.el6 @rhel-x86_64-server-6
TIA,
Qing
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Dmitri Pal
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