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Bug 884600

Summary: ldap_chpass_uri failover fails on using same hostname
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Kaushik Banerjee <kbanerje>
Component: sssdAssignee: Jakub Hrozek <jhrozek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Kaushik Banerjee <kbanerje>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.4CC: grajaiya, jgalipea, okos, pbrezina
Target Milestone: rc   
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: sssd-1.9.2-46.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Cause: SSSD tries to contact all servers in list, if every previous fails during LDAP authentication. Consequence: SSSD tried to connect to the next servers ONLY if the current connection timed out during LDAP authentication. Fix: Try to connect to following servers on ANY error during LDAP authentication. Result: The SSSD tries all servers as expected when authenticating against an LDAP server.
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Last Closed: 2013-02-21 09:42:10 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Kaushik Banerjee 2012-12-06 11:24:25 UTC
Description of problem:
ldap_chpass_uri failover fails on using same hostname

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sssd-1.9.2-30.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sssd.conf domain section has:
ldap_uri = ldap://ldapserver.example.com:12345,ldap://ldapserver.example.com:389
ldap_chpass_uri = ldap://ldapserver.example.com:12345,ldap://ldapserver.example.com:389

2. Try to change the password of a user
# ssh -l puser1 localhostpuser1@localhost's password:
Last login: Thu Dec  6 16:11:03 2012 from localhost
-sh-4.1$ passwd
Changing password for user puser1.
Current Password:
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
-sh-4.1$ 

  
Actual results:
Password change fails.
Log shows:
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sdap_pam_chpass_handler] (0x0040): starting password change request for user [puser1].
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [fo_resolve_service_send] (0x0100): Trying to resolve service 'LDAP_CHPASS'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [get_server_status] (0x1000): Status of server 'ldapserver.example.com' is 'working'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [get_port_status] (0x1000): Port status of port 12345 for server 'ldapserver.example.com' is 'neutral'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [fo_resolve_service_activate_timeout] (0x2000): Resolve timeout set to 10 seconds
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [get_server_status] (0x1000): Status of server 'ldapserver.example.com' is 'working'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [be_resolve_server_process] (0x1000): Saving the first resolved server
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [be_resolve_server_process] (0x0200): Found address for server ldapserver.example.com: [192.168.122.13] TTL 604800
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sdap_uri_callback] (0x0400): Constructed uri 'ldap://ldapserver.example.com:12345'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sss_ldap_init_send] (0x4000): Using file descriptor [22] for LDAP connection.
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sss_ldap_init_send] (0x0400): Setting 6 seconds timeout for connecting
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sdap_async_sys_connect_done] (0x0020): connect failed [111][Connection refused].
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sss_ldap_init_sys_connect_done] (0x0020): sdap_async_sys_connect request failed.
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sdap_sys_connect_done] (0x0020): sdap_async_connect_call request failed.
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [sdap_handle_release] (0x2000): Trace: sh[0x13f2a30], connected[0], ops[(nil)], ldap[(nil)], destructor_lock[0], release_memory[0]
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [fo_set_port_status] (0x0100): Marking port 12345 of server 'ldapserver.example.com' as 'not working'
(Thu Dec  6 16:13:46 2012) [sssd[be[LDAP]]] [be_pam_handler_callback] (0x0100): Backend returned: (3, 4, <NULL>) [Internal Error (System error)]


Expected results:
Password change should work.

Additional info:
Works fine with different hostnames:
ldap_chpass_uri = ldap://invalidsrv.example.com,ldap://ldapserver.example.com

Comment 2 Jakub Hrozek 2012-12-06 12:08:37 UTC
Upstream ticket:
https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1699

Comment 4 Kaushik Banerjee 2012-12-31 07:57:17 UTC
Verified in version 1.9.2-59

Report from beaker automation run:
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_001 Server1 down, Server2 online
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: [   LOG    ] :: Stopping LDAP Server on Server1 and sleeping for 1 second
:: [   PASS   ] :: Authentication successful, as expected
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'auth_success puser1 NewPass_123'
:: [   LOG    ] :: Starting LDAP Server on Server1 and sleeping for 5 seconds
:: [   LOG    ] :: Duration: 14s
:: [   LOG    ] :: Assertions: 2 good, 0 bad
:: [   PASS   ] :: RESULT: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_001 Server1 down, Server2 online

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_002 Failover with single server different ports
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: [   LOG    ] :: Sleeping for 5 seconds
:: [   PASS   ] :: Authentication successful, as expected
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'auth_success puser1 NewPass_123'
:: [   LOG    ] :: Duration: 11s
:: [   LOG    ] :: Assertions: 2 good, 0 bad
:: [   PASS   ] :: RESULT: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_002 Failover with single server different ports

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: [   LOG    ] :: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_003 First Server in the list cannot be resolved
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

:: [   LOG    ] :: Sleeping for 5 seconds
:: [   PASS   ] :: Authentication successful, as expected
:: [   PASS   ] :: Running 'auth_success puser1 NewPass_123'
:: [   LOG    ] :: Duration: 11s
:: [   LOG    ] :: Assertions: 2 good, 0 bad
:: [   PASS   ] :: RESULT: failover-ldap_chpass_uri_003 First Server in the list cannot be resolved

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2013-02-21 09:42:10 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-2013-0508.html