Bug 731094
| Summary: | Authconfig should support configuring SSSD with IPA back end | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Dmitri Pal <dpal> |
| Component: | authconfig | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | isenfeld, jgalipea, ksiddiqu, psplicha, pvrabec, rcritten, sgallagh |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | authconfig-6.1.12-6.el6 | Doc Type: | Enhancement |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-06-20 14:29:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 789413 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 750571, 756082 | ||
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Description
Dmitri Pal
2011-08-16 16:38:47 UTC
It should be noted that this will not be as simple as setting up an LDAP+KRB5 domain is right now. The proper solution to this ticket will be for authconfig to integrate with the python API provided by the freeipa-client package so that authconfig can be used to join an IPA domain. This entails authenticating as a FreeIPA user with privilege to add new clients, retrieving a keytab and setting up SSSD to use this keytab to connect to the FreeIPA server(s). Right now, there's a bit of a circular dependency with the freeipa-client, as the 'ipa-client-install' command currently does this work and calls out to authconfig to set up the nsswitch, krb5 and PAM configurations. So we'll need to coordinate this on both sides of the issue. There should be a switch/api call flag in the ipa-client-install to not call the authconfig then. Authconfig does not handle calls of itself when its being already running correctly. A division of labor would need to be very clear. Who writes krb5.conf, sssd.conf, ldap.conf, etc.? Depending on where that line is will help determine the best way in IPA to handle this. For example, if authconfig is going to write all the config files then we may be able to simplify this a lot and have it call ipa-join directly. If ipa-client-install is still going to write the non nss/pam config files then yes, a switch (perhaps undocumented) would be the way to go. We also need to support prompting user for the enrollment password. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0931.html |