Bug 291401 - cannot authenticate against active directory with nss-ldap
Summary: cannot authenticate against active directory with nss-ldap
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: nss_ldap
Version: 5.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-09-14 18:15 UTC by Dominic Lepiane
Modified: 2010-05-05 19:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-05-05 19:32:24 UTC
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2007-09-14 18:16 UTC, Dominic Lepiane
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Description Dominic Lepiane 2007-09-14 18:15:20 UTC
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Description of problem:
After configuring RHEL5 server to use Windows 2003 Active Directory servers for user authentication, certain processes usually hang when I try to get user info.  I am just using pam-ldap and nss-ldap so my nsswitch.conf has "files ldap".  I will attach my configuration notes, they are fairly exhaustive.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nss_ldap-253-3

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
(see attached)

Actual Results:
id <username> hangs, 100% cpu utilization, no output
nscd also goes up to 100% cpu utilization
sshd process for user log hangs when user tried to login (after they provide uid)
getent passwd and getent passwd <username> both work

Expected Results:
id <username> should immediately return user info (homedir, shell, etc)

Additional info:
selinux now disabled, nscd off, nothing comes up in syslog.  Some users I can get "id" info back right away, some take time, but most just don't return.

Comment 1 Dominic Lepiane 2007-09-14 18:16:05 UTC
Created attachment 196061 [details]
Installation notes

Comment 2 Dominic Lepiane 2007-09-14 18:17:09 UTC
System is RHEL 5, all updates
Linux 2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 20:43:28 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
GNU/Linux
2 x Xeon dual-core (4 cores total)
4 GB ram

Comment 3 Dominic Lepiane 2007-09-14 18:24:08 UTC
I've seen mention of bindpolicy soft vs. hard, non-existant "nvram" group, and
comments about using a non-SMP kernel but with various random platforms... I
just don't see anything in syslog and I am getting as far as getting getent
passwd working so this really seems like a bug of some sort.


Comment 4 Etzion Bar-Noy 2009-06-05 18:04:56 UTC
I was able to reproduce this problem on RHEL5.2 and RHEL5.3 with the same configuration as used by RHEL4.
On RHEL4 it is working correctly, while on RHEL5 CPU utilization is sky-high. 
I attempted some tcpdump on the session to find it queries the DC and does not get answer.

The problem disappeared when I entered "ldap_version 2" to /etc/ldap.conf and waited for a short while (killing all processes using 100% CPU)

Comment 5 Nalin Dahyabhai 2010-05-04 22:44:19 UTC
That this doesn't trigger a problem with "ldap_version 2" suggests that this might be related to referral processing, which isn't something the client even tries to do unless ldap_version is set to (or left at the default value of) 3.

The 5.5 build links with a newer version of openldap that fixed a few things in this area (notably #472920).  Does it make a difference here?

As an aside, you may want to try setting "nss_initgroups backlink" in ldap.conf to make use of the group membership information AD prefers clients use -- there's a good chance it'll be faster.

Comment 6 Dominic Lepiane 2010-05-04 23:39:50 UTC
It's been a while and I don't remember the work-around, but I've been using "referrals no".  I tried removing "referrals no" which definitely used to give me problems, and it works fine now (nss_ldap-253-22.el5_4).  So maybe this is fixed?  I have also been using different attribute mappings than what's been provided with the stock config in the past.

nss_map_objectclass posixAccount user
nss_map_objectclass shadowAccount user
nss_map_attribute uid sAMAccountName
nss_map_attribute homeDirectory unixHomeDirectory
nss_map_attribute shadowLastChange pwdLastSet
nss_map_attribute gecos name
nss_map_attribute cn sAMAccountName
nss_map_objectclass posixGroup group
nss_map_attribute uniqueMember member
pam_login_attribute sAMAccountName
pam_filter objectclass=User

Everything else is fairly stock / generic.  System config otherwise works with authconfig.

I just tried adding the nss_initgroups backlink as well.  This does not appear to have significant impact for our site.

Thanks

Comment 7 Dmitri Pal 2010-05-05 19:32:24 UTC
It seems that the problem is addressed in the later versions of the nss_ldap.
Closing the bug.


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