Bug 1577649 - FreeIPA client install sets dns_canonicalize_hostname to false, which breaks service access by unqualified name
Summary: FreeIPA client install sets dns_canonicalize_hostname to false, which breaks ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: freeipa
Version: 28
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: IPA Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2018-05-13 18:17 UTC by Martin Jackson
Modified: 2018-07-09 13:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-07-09 13:56:46 UTC
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Description Martin Jackson 2018-05-13 18:17:16 UTC
Description of problem:
Users probably expect to "skate" around their FreeIPA domains using GSSAPI with ssh.  The FreeIPA client installer explicitly adds a dns_canonicalize_hostname setting, and configures it to be false.  This results in a surprising inability to SSH by short name.  (Though this seems to have been set in FreeIPA long ago - maybe a recent krb5 lib upgrade made this suddenly visible?  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1481655 was about this issue last year.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python3-ipaclient-4.6.90.pre1-7.fc28.noarch

Note that this also seems to affect Fedora 27 (I was able to reproduce it there; seems krb5 1.16.1 are common on both)

How reproducible:
Always, seems like

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install FreeIPA client
2. SSH to another FreeIPA client to which you have login rights via SSH by short name (ssh login via FQDN works, as expected)
3. 

Actual results:
Password prompt, as SSH debug indicates that service principal name not found in database

Expected results:
Login on system

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2018-05-14 14:52:48 UTC
Added in commit 566c86a782bfd7d50938866e9f89faf56cea773f

disable hostname canonicalization by Kerberos library
    
By default, Kerberos client library attempts to canonicalize service hostname in TGS requests. This can fail e.g. if hosts file on the client machine references short names before FQDNs. In this case the short name is used in TGS_REQ which KDC fails to resolve.
    
Since we do not (yet) support referencing hosts by their short names it is safe to just disable this behavior in krb5.conf and use supplied FQDNs.
    
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6584

Comment 2 Martin Jackson 2018-05-14 15:09:46 UTC
I see that the behavior is deliberate, but lots of people use short names, especially for SSH.  It seems like something broke relatively recently in this.  Would it make sense to make this behavior tunable with an installer flag?

Comment 3 Alexander Bokovoy 2018-07-09 13:56:46 UTC
There is a way to add a snippet in /etc/krb5.conf.d/ to override a default.

There is also a support for Kerberos principal aliases in FreeIPA. Both provide enough methods to handle this at a particular deployment.

I'm closing this bug as WONTFIX.


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