Bug 118711
| Summary: | bad interaction with ldap when TLS is on | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Alberto Gianoli <alberto.gianoli> |
| Component: | nss_ldap | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | aleksey, mattdm |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-01-02 19:14:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Have you looked at the bug 117924? This sounds pretty similar. Hhmmm.. it sounds exactly the same. I checked previous bugs for RH9 only, sorry I didn't spot it. Just to add more info: I have another machine with a different distro (mdk9.2) that has no problem at all to authenticate with the ldap server (running rh9) with tls on (so, in my point of view , it is the proof that the ldap server part is ok). Secondly, but this is a ldap server related problem, the openldap server as it is has problems if you want a replica with tls transfer between master and replica. The solution I have found for this consists in getting a newer versione of openldap and rebuild an rpm. Ahaa! Since nscd was crashing, I thought it was the culprit. After the bug was moved to the nss_ldap queue, I spent some time checking it. Well, changing nss_ldap solves the problem. I downloaded the latest version, recompiled and installed over the distribution version: now it works. Apparently only nss_ldap is needed, not pam_ldap. If I have the time and/or will, will try to prepare a src.rpm. Red Hat apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We do want to make sure that no important bugs slip through the cracks. Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. They are maintained by the Fedora Legacy project (http://www.fedoralegacy.org/) for security updates only. If this is a security issue, please reassign to the 'Fedora Legacy' product in bugzilla. Please note that Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. If this is not a security issue, please check if this issue is still present in a current Fedora Core release. If so, please change the product and version to match, and check the box indicating that the requested information has been provided. If you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, please note that Fedora Legacy security update support for these products will stop on December 31st, 2006. You are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Any bug still open against Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9 at the end of 2006 will be closed 'CANTFIX'. Again, if this bug still exists in a current release, or is a security issue, please change the product as necessary. We thank you for your help, and apologize again that we haven't handled these issues to this point. Red Hat Linux 7.3 and Red Hat Linux 9 are no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. f you are currently still running Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 9, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable. Some information on which option may be right for you is available at http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/. Closing as CANTFIX. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have read the other problems between nscd and nss_ldap, but I think this is somewhat different. As soon as I configure the ldap client to do a secure connection to the server ("ssl start_tls" in /etc/ldap.conf) nscd simply crashes. Even if I start to run it by hand (nscd -d) all I get is a segmentation fault (and there is no way to log in!).... If I put "ssl no" everything works fine (well, apart from the number of connections made between the client and server) Don't know if it is important, but my ldap server certificate is not self-generated. It is a V3 certificate. The problem is independent from the request to verify the server certificate, i.e. it happens event if I instruct the client not to verify the server certificate. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nscd-2.3.2-27.9.7 nss_ldap-202-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.setup authorization using ldap (of course you need a ldap server) 2.modify /etc/ldap.conf on the ldap client to turn on tls. Typically go to the end of the file and change "ssl no" in "ssl start_tls" or use authconfig tool 3.check you processes because nscd should not be there anymore. Try to start it by hand, and you will get the message: "segmentation fault" Actual Results: Nscd crashes (it cannot be started). Both sshd and telnetd seem to fail, because there is no way to log into the machine. Ssh simply refuses the connection, while telnetd throw me out after giving the username. Expected Results: First of all nscd should not crash. Secondly, I don't understand how this crash blocks the authentication: I really can't log in the machine, event if ssh and telent server are running. Additional info: Most of these tests were done on athlon machines, but the same seems to be true with i686 machines too.