Bug 1018189

Summary:	authconfig / sssd.conf: "dns_discovery_domain" issue
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	guillard <orglube>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Version:	6.6	CC:	ebenes, mgrigull, sgallagh
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Description guillard 2013-10-11 12:02:37 UTC

Description of problem:
if sssd uses dns discovery to look for ldap servers, then
the DNS zone to query for ldap server is specified with
the parameter "dns_discovery_domain" in sssd.conf, and the
parameter "ldap_uri" should not be declared.

If "dns_discovery_domain" is specified in sssd.conf, then
the configuration script 'authconfig' should not insert an
"ldap_uri"in sssd.conf, which it does.


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How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:

1. edit sssd.conf and declare a "dns_discovery_domain" domain

2. launch "authconfig" with apropriate flags: --ldapserver="ldap.example.com" --enableshadow  --enablesssd --enablesssdauth --enableldap --enableldapauth --updateall

3. "ldap_uri"

Actual results:

the following line has been added to sssd.conf :

ldap_uri = ldap.example.com

Expected results:

this line should not be inserted to sssd.conf

Additional info:

After tshark investigations, it sounds like when both "ldap_uri" and "dns_discovery_domain" are declared in sssd.conf, then sssd uses ldap servers declared in "ldap_uri" server rather than querying the dns to look for the relevant ldap server to work with.

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2013-10-11 12:10:16 UTC

Authconfig cannot recognize all the possible configuration options that sssd supports. Just do not use it at all, or use it just for pam configuration - that is use --enablesssd --enablesssdauth but not --enableldap and the ldapserver and related options.

Comment 2 guillard 2013-10-13 18:17:33 UTC

Hi Tomas,

I understand your point. I'm sure that I will be able to find a workaround.
However I beleived that authconfig should support some sort of "ldapdnsdiscovery" option.

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Olivier

Comment 4 Tomas Mraz 2016-08-11 11:06:15 UTC

I am sorry but we are not going to implement this feature at this time.