Bug 201341

Summary:	sshd no longer stores forwarded gssapi creds before opening the pam session
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Component:	openssh	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	openssh-4.3p2-8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2006-08-10 09:14:46 EDT	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	150223

Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2006-08-04 10:55:26 EDT

Description of problem:
OpenSSH 4.3p2-7 adds a patch which moves PAM session management from the child
process to the monitor when privilege separation is enabled.  It is still the
child which stores forwarded credentials when GSSAPI authentication is used,
though, so the PAM session module no longer has access to those credentials.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.3p2-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure pam_krb5 with the "external=sshd" option.
2. Configure syslog to log "debug" priority messages somewhere.
3. Attempt to log in using both GSSAPI authentication and credential delegation.
  
Actual results:
pam_krb5 logs that during pam_open_session, $KRB5CCNAME has not been set.  (I
can log in, but my AFS-based home directory is not accessible.)

Expected results:
pam_krb5 should find valid credentials in the location pointed to by $KRB5CCNAME
so that it can use them to obtain AFS tokens.

Additional info:
This also affects pam_afs2 and pam_openafs_session.  More discussion on how
those modules work can be found in the thread at
http://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2005-April/017512.html

Comment 1 Tomas Mraz 2006-08-04 11:11:51 EDT

Nalin, do you have any ideas how to fix that other than removing the mentioned
patch? I think that the only solution which would also completely fix the
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=926 would be to leave the pam calls
where they are and add another fork before the setuid calls and exec of the shell.

For now I will probably remove the mentioned patch.

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2006-08-10 09:14:46 EDT

I removed the problematic patch.

Comment 3 Tomas Mraz 2006-11-28 16:22:29 EST

Nalin, could you please try openssh-4.3p2-13.fc7 from rawhide? It contains
improved pam-session patch which should not cause this bug anymore.

Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2006-11-30 10:35:59 EST

Works again, with either openssh-4.3p2-10.1.el5 or openssh-4.3p2-13.fc7.  Thanks!

Comment 5 Tomas Mraz 2006-11-30 11:15:08 EST

Well openssh-4.3p2-10.1.el5 doesn't contain the pam-session patch but
openssh-4.3p2-13.fc7 does so that's good. Thanks for testing.