Bug 859968

Summary:

IPA browser configuration won't work on Firefox >= 15

Product:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Reporter:

Dmitri Pal <dpal>

Component:

ipa

Assignee:

Rob Crittenden <rcritten>

Status:

CLOSED ERRATA

QA Contact:

IDM QE LIST <seceng-idm-qe-list>

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unspecified

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Priority:

medium

Version:

6.4

CC:

mkosek, nsoman, pvoborni, xdong

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Fixed In Version:

ipa-3.0.0-3.el6

Doc Type:

Bug Fix

Doc Text:

Cause: Firefox of version 15 or newer does not allow signed JavaScript jars to gain escalated privileges allowing then to for example change browser configuration. Consequence: Identity Management browser auto-configuration signed .jar will to configure the browser to be able to access Web UI via Kerberos authentication. This affects all Firefox browsers of version 15 or newer. Fix: Identity Management is now deployed with own Firefox extension capable of configuring the browser for Kerberos authentication. Result: Firefox users of all supported browser versions can take advantage of browser auto-configuration and authenticate via Kerberos.

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2013-02-21 09:19:55 UTC

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browser configuation page works	none

Description Dmitri Pal 2012-09-24 14:13:10 UTC

This bug is created as a clone of upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3094

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege() call was deprecated in Firefox 15 and can't be used.

It completely breaks IPA browser configuration in signed .jar file. (https://test.example.com/ipa/config/browserconfig.html).

FF team recommends to make FF extension for any code which uses privileged code.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546848
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757046

I think making FF extension just for configuring kerberos auth for one site is bad. I propose to give priority to ticket #823

We can offer configuration steps for: FF <= 14, FF >= 15, IE and Chrome. For FF <= 14 I would keep the configure.jar method.

Comment 2 Namita Soman 2012-10-01 17:05:28 UTC

I can run the UI on FF15. So please provide steps to recreate the issue described here.

Comment 3 Martin Kosek 2012-10-02 07:20:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I can run the UI on FF15. So please provide steps to recreate the issue
> described here.

But can you authenticate with your Kerberos ticket? Authentication via user+password is not affected with this issue.

Comment 4 Petr Vobornik 2012-10-02 10:46:17 UTC

In https://<ipa server>/config/browserconfig.html there is the 'configure browser' button. In FF 15 it doesn't do anything (from user perspective). There is an error in web console (Ctrl+Shift+K), but user can't see it. 

The outcome is that we can't configure automatically FF config options like network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris and therefore, as Martin wrote, SSO doesn't work (if not configured manually).

Comment 5 Rob Crittenden 2012-10-05 15:58:50 UTC

Fixed upstream.

This provides a new Firefox extension for 15+. Older browsers will rely on the signed javascript file.

master:
696fce5c8d4e480c6a731686c8952a4e7ace575f
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206b6ca04b0e06b3bebf34d985f5310489fd7aac
b4e19509c034942a4f6bc99c371774a0944b65eb
4e72bc7fc8e8cc677d67919cde70eb1df47f1d81

ipa-3-0:
1212e867986aca1f030433f9f40908361629198c
e13a88a2e59a6cdee806fdc4a619a22bba9c3f35
2ba1fb5f87875a8793aad35224cb24d3b89f9883
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f9bafb2958c3ea1e60856f21a28776026de2b305

Comment 8 Xiyang Dong 2013-01-28 17:58:05 UTC

Created attachment 689183 [details]
browser configuation page works

verified in firefox ESR 10.0.10,which corresponds with Firefox 16.0.2

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 09:19:55 UTC

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/RHSA-2013-0528.html