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Bug 1892793 - Authentication and login times are over several seconds due to unindexed ipaExternalMember [rhel-7.9.z]
Summary: Authentication and login times are over several seconds due to unindexed ipaE...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ipa
Version: 7.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
high
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Florence Blanc-Renaud
QA Contact: ipa-qe
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-10-29 16:22 UTC by Sandi Wallendahl
Modified: 2024-03-25 16:51 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ipa-4.6.8-5.el7_9.4
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Last Closed: 2021-03-16 13:56:37 UTC
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2021-03-01 10:50 UTC, Sudhir Menon 		no flags Details
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Description Sandi Wallendahl 2020-10-29 16:22:06 UTC 
Description of problem:
High login times are encountered for user accounts that are fetched from AD using the trust between IPA and AD realms, when the AD realm has lots (e.g. thousands) of user accounts.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-server 4.6.6


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install and configure IPA server, use default configuration
2. Install and configure IPA client, use default configuration
3. Have a Microsoft Active Directory instance with a high amount (e.g. thousands) of users
3. Create a trust between IPA and AD and set up AD users to be able to login through the trust
4. Try to login with an AD user account


Actual results:
Login over ssh takes 5-10 seconds


Expected results:
Login should not take this long, expected login time is about one second


Additional info:
The issue is caused by ipaExternalMember entry being unindexed and can be mitigated on the IPA server-side with the following:

Create a file: 90-index-ipaExternalMember.update
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dn: cn=ipaExternalMember,cn=index,cn=userRoot,cn=ldbm database,cn=plugins,cn=config
default: cn: ipaExternalMember
default: objectClass: top
default: objectClass: nsIndex
default: nsSystemIndex: false
default: nsIndexType: eq
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apply it by running the following as root on all of IPA servers:
  # ipa-ldap-updater ./90-index-ipaExternalMember.update

Since the version 4.6.5 of IPA there's an auto-indexing feature. So after this schema-update is put in place, IPA automatically creates a task for itself to index ipaExternalMember entries.

/var/log/ipaupgrade.log can be followed to verify the task has started:

  <timestamp> DEBUG Creating task cn=indextask_<taskid>,cn=index,cn=tasks,cn=config to index attributes: ipaExternalMember


This issue has been fixed in upstream with: https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/commit/9f0ec27e9f13ed40b8e58162d99bf9b0e8b4afd5
Comment 4 François Cami 2021-01-22 19:21:21 UTC 
Upstream ticket:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/issue/8677
Comment 5 Florence Blanc-Renaud 2021-01-26 09:15:39 UTC 
Fixed upstream
ipa-4-6:
https://pagure.io/freeipa/c/2c802ab10479342e6d0e7e6d1589f0d31a608c1b
Comment 9 Sudhir Menon 2021-03-01 10:50:07 UTC 
Created attachment 1759933 [details]
TestSystem-Logs
Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2021-03-16 13:56:37 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 (Moderate: ipa security and bug fix update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0860
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