[Samba] Re: Problem with winbind not seeing a user as part of a
group
Scott Lovenberg
scott.lovenberg at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 20:23:00 GMT 2008
Trimble, Ronald D wrote:
> That may be possible, but like I said, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes the span between the two is only a few seconds.
>
> From: Scott Lovenberg [mailto:scott.lovenberg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:05 PM
> To: Trimble, Ronald D
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem with winbind not seeing a user as part of a group
>
> Trimble, Ronald D wrote:
> I have never explored those options. We have auth fall through turned off. If the authentication fails, they get a 401 message indicating they don't have permissions.
>
> Here is an example from our vhosts.conf...
>
> <Location /scm/spar/svn>
> DAV svn
> SVNPATH /scm/spar/svn
> SVNPathAuthz off
> AuthPAM_Enabled on
> AuthPAM_FallThrough off
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "SPAR Subversion"
> require group "NA\USTR-LINUX-1-SPAR"
> <LimitExcept GET PROPFIND OPTIONS REPORT>
> require group "NA\USTR-LINUX-1-SPAR"
> </LimitExcept>
> </Location>
>
> <Location /scm/spar/trac>
> SetHandler mod_python
> PythonHandler trac.web.modpython_frontend
> PythonOption TracEnv /scm/spar/trac
> PythonOption TracUriRoot /scm/spar/trac
> AuthPAM_Enabled on
> AuthPAM_FallThrough off
> AuthType Basic
> AuthName "SPAR Trac"
> require group "NA\USTR-LINUX-1-SPAR"
> </Location>
>
>
> From: Scott Lovenberg [mailto:scott.lovenberg at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:27 PM
> To: Trimble, Ronald D
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org<mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem with winbind not seeing a user as part of a group
>
> Trimble, Ronald D wrote:
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> It looks like it is only happening when apache2 is involved. Although, other login methods are far less common. I have a suspicion it may be related to the mod_auth_pam module but what I don't understand is why it is happening. Mod_auth_pam makes dozens of requests to winbind for each session. Why do some work and others don't? Could it be that winbind is overwhelmed and thus doesn't return anything?
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Scott Lovenberg [mailto:scott.lovenberg at gmail.com]
>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:09 PM
>
> To: Trimble, Ronald D
>
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org<mailto:samba at lists.samba.org>
>
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem with winbind not seeing a user as part of a group
>
>
>
> Trimble, Ronald D wrote:
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>
> Everyone,
>
> Here is a challenge for all of you samba experts! Lately I have been seeing a problem where winbind is not correctly identifying a user as a member of a group he most certainly belong to. This is with a Domain Local group so I know samba should support it.
>
> Users access a HTTPS (SSL) webpage that is secured by a Domain Local group. Sometimes they get in, others they don't. Here are some examples from the logs.
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> /var/log/apache2/error_log
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> [Tue Feb 12 18:54:52 2008] [error] [client 172.xx.xxx.xxx] GROUP:
>
> NA\\selltc not in required group(s)., referer:
>
> https://ustr-linux-1/scm/spar/trac/browser/trunk/common/include/channe
>
> ls [Tue Feb 12 18:55:00 2008] [error] [client 172.xx.xxx.xxx] GROUP:
>
> NA\\selltc not in required group(s)., referer:
>
> https://ustr-linux-1/scm/spar/trac/browser/trunk/common/include/channe
>
> ls [Tue Feb 12 18:56:12 2008] [error] [client 172.xx.xxx.xxx] GROUP:
>
> NA\\selltc not in required group(s)., referer:
>
> https://ustr-linux-1/scm/spar/trac/browser/trunk/common/include/channe
>
> ls
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>
>
> However a little later it is mysteriously working again...
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> /var/log/apache2/access_log
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> 172.xx.xxx.xxx - NA\\selltc [12/Feb/2008:20:02:37 -0500] "GET
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> /scm/spar/trac/chrome/common/css/trac.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
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> 172.xx.xxx.xxx - NA\\selltc [12/Feb/2008:20:02:37 -0500] "GET
>
> /scm/spar/trac/chrome/common/css/browser.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
>
> 172.xx.xxx.xxx - NA\\selltc [12/Feb/2008:20:02:37 -0500] "GET
>
> /scm/spar/trac/chrome/common/css/diff.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
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>
>
> Now obviously my example doesn't have the user accessing the same link, but it doesn't matter. Winbind went from identifying the user as not in the group to then identifying him as in the group and nothing changed! This is happening several times a day and is driving us insane. What can I do to figure this out? Has anyone else seen this?
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> Here is what is going on in the /var/log/samba/log.wb-NA (our domain) log at that time for that user.
>
>
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> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_dual.c:child_process_request(479)
>
> process_request: request fn PAM_AUTH
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 3] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth(1341)
>
> [10824]: dual pam auth NA\selltc
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth(1364)
>
> winbindd_dual_pam_auth: domain: NA last was online
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth_samlogon(1127)
>
> winbindd_dual_pam_auth_samlogon
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth(1416)
>
> winbindd_dual_pam_auth_samlogon succeeded
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:refresh_sequence_number(472)
>
> refresh_sequence_number: NA time ok
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:refresh_sequence_number(506)
>
> refresh_sequence_number: NA seq number is now 271835101
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:wcache_save_name_to_sid(823)
>
> wcache_save_name_to_sid: NA\SELLTC ->
>
> S-1-5-21-725345543-2052111302-527237240-26405 (NT_STATUS_OK)
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:refresh_sequence_number(472)
>
> refresh_sequence_number: NA time ok
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:refresh_sequence_number(506)
>
> refresh_sequence_number: NA seq number is now 271835101
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:centry_expired(546)
>
> centry_expired: Key PWD_POL/NA for domain NA is good.
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:wcache_fetch(630)
>
> wcache_fetch: returning entry PWD_POL/NA for domain NA
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 10] nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:password_policy(2108)
>
> lockout_policy: [Cached] - cached info for domain NA status:
>
> NT_STATUS_OK
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 5] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth(1546)
>
> Setting unix username to [NA\selltc]
>
> [2008/02/12 18:54:52, 5] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_dual_pam_auth(1578)
>
> Plain-text authentication for user NA\selltc returned NT_STATUS_OK
>
> (PAM: 0)
>
>
>
> Please let me know if you can help me figure this out.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron
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> Does authentication ever fail like this from another login point (from a desktop login, or other PAM settings)? Or only when apache is involved?
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> Have you checked this?
> from mod_auth_pam<http://pam.sourceforge.net/mod_auth_pam/faq.html>
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> [...]
> 6.
> I get "500 server error" after entering the password for a password protected page
>
> The username you entered is probably not in the system database. In that case, mod_auth_pam falls through to mod_auth and mod_auth needs more configuration than mod_auth_pam. Solution: Either disable fall-through or configure AuthUserFile and AuthGroupFile for mod_auth
> [...]
> Bah, I'm retarded and saw the hour offset without thinking assumed it was the GET return code (500).
>
> This looks a bit more promising!
> SourceForge.net: Help<http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1414955&forum_id=20642>
I'm sorry, you are correct, I was zeroing in on cached credentials
mapping to groups. This might just be a coincidence, but you had
mentioned about the server being possibly overwhelmed. Following that
line of thought, does the cache expiration (forcing a lookup) line
"nsswitch/winbindd_cache.c:centry_expired" exist before every failure?
Or, does the samba log look exactly the same regardless of success or
failure on the apache side?
There should be something in the samba log that happens/doesn't every
time a login fails, which will not be so when a login succeeds. Do you
have the remainder of the samba log file corresponding with the success
at time 20:02:37?
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