Bug 991184 - Support libkrb5's new kernel keyring based credentials cache
Summary: Support libkrb5's new kernel keyring based credentials cache
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-online-accounts
Version: 7.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
unspecified
Target Milestone: beta
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Assignee: Debarshi Ray
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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: 1013697 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 991110
Blocks: 991169
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-08-01 19:24 UTC by Stephen Gallagher
Modified: 2019-09-06 14:32 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 11:55:56 UTC
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Description Stephen Gallagher 2013-08-01 19:24:04 UTC
Description of problem:

A new, kernel-keyring based credential cache is being added to libkrb5 and used by default in RHEL 7.0. See BZ #991110 and #991148 for full details on the interface.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-09-03 18:48:38 UTC
Note this bug depends on getting change notification into the kerberos keyring.  adding bug 991110 as a dependency.  If we don't get that feature we'll have to revert to polling, which is not very nice for power usage and probably unacceptable.

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-09-11 01:56:55 UTC
just to post an update here, on the upstream bug I've put a first cut at a patch to fall back to polling.  Clearly, though, we still want the kernel notification api and want to use that api when it's available.  This is just gives us a safety net if schedules don't end up aligning.

Comment 5 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-09-26 17:17:23 UTC
testing will require

1) installing updated krb5-libs / sssd packages that enable the kernel keyring support and change user's logins to use that credential cache type by default.

2) running kinit from the command line and seeing if a transient g-o-a identity shows up in control-center online accounts panel for the kinit'd identity

3) running kdestroy from the command line and seeing if control-center notices

4) adding an identity explicitly through control-center, and running kdestroy to see if the identity state gets updated.

Comment 6 Debarshi Ray 2013-11-01 16:37:18 UTC
*** Bug 1013697 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Debarshi Ray 2013-11-01 16:39:03 UTC
(In reply to Vladimir Benes from comment #4)
> (In reply to Ray Strode [halfline] from comment #3)
> > just to post an update here, on the upstream bug I've put a first cut at a
> > patch to fall back to polling.  Clearly, though, we still want the kernel
> > notification api and want to use that api when it's available.  This is just
> > gives us a safety net if schedules don't end up aligning.
> 
> wanted to provide qack but I am  not sure how to test this. Is turning
> on/off from g-o-a enough for this? Should getting kerberos ticket via g-o-a
> be possible as well? Anything else?

Apart from what Ray already said, if your g-o-a doesn't support using the kernel keyring cache, then you will see a crash like this:

#0 __strcmp_sse42 at ../sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch/strcmp-sse42.S:235
 #1 krb5int_cc_getops at ccbase.c:269
 #2 krb5_cc_new_unique at ccbase.c:302
 #3 get_new_credentials_cache at goakerberosidentitymanager.c:784
 #4 sign_in_identity at goakerberosidentitymanager.c:809
 #5 on_job_scheduled at goakerberosidentitymanager.c:1018
 #6 io_job_thread at gioscheduler.c:89
 #7 g_task_thread_pool_thread at gtask.c:1242
 #9 g_thread_proxy at gthread.c:798
 #11 clone at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:113

Comment 8 Debarshi Ray 2013-11-01 17:25:13 UTC
I built gnome-online-accounts-3.8.4.1-2.el7 which should support kernel keyring based credentials cache: https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=6513976

Comment 10 Ray Strode [halfline] 2013-11-04 17:19:13 UTC
Note we're still waiting on a kernel notification API to do this without polling (as per comment 1)

Comment 13 Vladimir Benes 2014-03-05 12:10:47 UTC
used steps from:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=991184#c5

and everything works as expected

Comment 14 Ludek Smid 2014-06-13 11:55:56 UTC
This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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