From: Buchan Milne bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Cc: rocke.robertson@pch.gc.ca Date: 23/08/2011 09:45 AM Subject: Re: replication breaks ppolicy
On Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:12:41 rocke.robertson@pch.gc.ca wrote:
Good morning all
After quite a bit of work, I got replication working (thank you all).
So I forged ahead and deployed the server in our RHEL 5.5 environment.
RHEL5's openldap packages finally became somewhat usable at RHEL5.4, for openldap *2.3*. You may find you want newer (e.g. for ppolicy_forward_updates).
Will look into getting a newer version.
But now I just realized that none of my ppolicy rules work. Also, the Redhat clients are configured to use MD5 hash.
You don't want clients to hash passwords, you can't enforce any password quality checks on hashes. Use 'pam_password exop' if you want to enforce password quality (or otherwise be able to control password hashing on the server-side).
Have tried exop and clear as the documentation suggests is needed. No aging / history though...
When I look at the accounts in webmin, it shows it being crypt????? I know openldap likes salted SHA,
but
I thought I'd do what Redhat wanted, which was MD5.
Why?
Because... I guess cause I blindly follow vendor documentation? I do see folks complaining about this though.
Password history, aging etc... A search used to show me all of my ppolicy objects.
ldapsearch -v -x -b 'dc=chin,dc=ca' cn=default
?
But now returns nothing. Users can reuse passwords, so no history or
aging
is working. No locking. I had to change ACL's on the provider and
consumer
to get the replication working. Would that cause the problem?
No.
THen this is good.
Here is my policy LDIF file I added to the server:
# policies, chin.com dn: ou=policies,dc=chin,dc=ca objectClass: organizationalUnit objectClass: top ou: policies
# default, policies, chin.com dn: cn=default,ou=policies,dc=chin,dc=ca objectClass: top objectClass: device objectClass: pwdPolicy cn: default pwdAttribute: userPassword pwdInHistory: 6 pwdCheckQuality: 1 pwdMinLength: 8 pwdMaxFailure: 4 pwdLockout: TRUE pwdLockoutDuration: 1920 pwdGraceAuthNLimit: 0 pwdFailureCountInterval: 0 pwdMustChange: TRUE pwdAllowUserChange: TRUE pwdSafeModify: FALSE pwdMaxAge: 10368000 pwdExpireWarning: 1209600 pwdMinAge: 86400
Show some example accounts, requesting the operational attributes ('+'),
and
show authentication attempts (see ldapwhoami(1)) and password change
attempts
(see ldappasswd(1)) with the ppolicy control enabled (-e ppolicy).
-bash-3.2$ ldapwhoami -x -D "uid=bigbob,ou=People,dc=chin,dc=ca" -W -e ppolicy Enter LDAP Password: dn:uid=bigbob,ou=People,dc=chin,dc=ca Result: Success (0)
Not a whole hell of a lot of information is produced. I don't know this command well so I'm not sure, but I think this is a little shy on output?
-bash-3.2$ id uid=10014(bigbob) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
-bash-3.2$ ldappasswd -h ldap -x -D cn=admin,dc=chin,dc=ca "uid=bigbob,ou=People,dc=chin,dc=ca" -W -S -e ppolicy New password: Re-enter new password: Enter LDAP Password: Result: Success (0)
-bash-3.2$
I can change the password with ldappasswd, and here I am changing it to the existing password with no errors or complaints. That used to fail.
I'm sorry but I'm not %100 sure what an operations attribute of ('+')is, but here is an account that was created with the pwdpolicy objectclass. I used to be able to get all the aging, last changed, lock and history information....
ldapsearch -v -x -b 'dc=chin,dc=ca' uid=bigbob -e ppolicy
# extended LDIF # # LDAPv3 # base <dc=chin,dc=ca> with scope subtree # filter: uid=bigbob # requesting: ALL #
# bigbob, People, chin.ca dn: uid=bigbob,ou=People,dc=chin,dc=ca pwdAttribute: userPassword shadowMax: 99999 uid: bigbob cn: Big Bob homeDirectory: /homes/bigbob uidNumber: 10014 objectClass: account objectClass: posixAccount objectClass: top objectClass: shadowAccount objectClass: hostObject objectClass: pwdPolicy host: db1.rcip-chin.gc.ca host: db2.rcip-chin.gc.ca host: db-cl1.rcip-chin.gc.ca host: db-cl2.rcip-chin.gc.ca shadowWarning: 7 gidNumber: 100 gecos: Big Bob loginShell: /bin/bash
# search result search: 2 result: 0 Success
# numResponses: 2 # numEntries: 1
Buchan, thanks for your help.
Rocke