Re: [Users] OpenLDAP Simple Authentication in Ovirt Engine

From: "Thierry Kauffmann" <thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr&gt; To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt;, users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 10:35:34 AM Subject: Re: [Users] OpenLDAP Simple Authentication in Ovirt Engine Le 04/12/2012 09:09, Oved Ourfalli a écrit : ----- Original Message ----- From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; To: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org , "Thierry Kauffmann" <thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr&gt; Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 1:47:52 AM Subject: Re: [Users] OpenLDAP Simple Authentication in Ovirt Engine On 12/02/2012 08:10 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thierry Kauffmann" <thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr&gt; To: "cristi falcas" <cristi.falcas(a)gmail.com&gt; Cc: users(a)ovirt.org Sent: Saturday, December 1, 2012 5:56:14 PM Subject: [Users] OpenLDAP Simple Authentication in Ovirt Engine Hi, I am currently testing Ovirt 3.1 standalone on Fedora 17. Until now, I could only use the default user admin@internal. Our Directory at the University is OpenLDAP. We use it for authentication WITHOUT Kerberos : Simple authentication. I wonder how to use this backend to authenticate users and manage groups in Ovirt. Has anyone already set this up ? How to configure Ovirt to use Simple Authentication (No Kerberos). Cheers, -- Thierry Kauffmann Chef du Service Informatique // Facult? des Sciences // Universit? de Montpellier 2 [image: SIF - Service Informatique de la Facult? des Sciences] <http://sif.info-ufr.univ-montp2.fr/> [image: UM2 - Universit? de Montpellier 2] <http://www.univ-montp2.fr/> Service informatique de la Facult? des Sciences (SIF) Universit? de Montpellier 2 CC437 // Place Eug?ne Bataillon // 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 T?l : 04 67 14 31 58 email : thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr web : http://sif.info-ufr.univ-montp2.fr/ http://www.fdsweb.univ-montp2.fr/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users Hi, This is a response from an older thread from Yair Zaslavsky: " there is no code allowing to add simple-authentication domains to Manage-Domains. In the past we did have the ability to do that, but there are several problematic issues." Best regards, Hi, correct-me if I am wrong but this wiki page ( http://www.ovirt.org/DomainInfrastructure ) states clearly : 1. Authenticating Active Directory, IPA and RHDS using either simple or gssapi authentication 2. Querying the directory using the LDAP protocol 3. Auto deducing the LDAP provider type 4. Easily adding new LDAP provider types 5. Easily adding new query types So what ? We supported simple authentication in the past, but it is no longer supported, that's why you can't set that using the manage domains utility. It may work well in some providers (in the past we supported that for active directory, so I guess it would work there). I don't think we removed SIMPLE from the engine, we just don't recommend using it, since it doesn't encrypt user/password on the network (it is sometime useful for debugging). We indeed didn't remove the engine code. We just blocked it from the utility. Once you have a configured oVirt domain, you can set the LDAPSecurityAuthentication configuration parameter (in the vdc_options table), to use simple, by putting a value of: domain1:SIMPLE,domain2:GSSAPI,domain3:SIMPLE and etc.... but, if you want to add a new domain with it then you would need to add it manually (can give a detailed explanation on how, if relevant). Yes, I would like to know how to add directly a domain which is not GSSAPI controlled.

By default we work GSSAPI (I think the config option is empty by default which is equivalent to working GSSAPI). If/When we would need to support that again it shouldn't be a major effort to add the code... the testing with the different providers will be the hard part. Oved We also don't auto deduce the LDAP provider type anymore, as changes in the providers caused some issues with it. I'll edit the wiki accordingly (btw, I remember removing it from the wiki... so it is weird that it is still there...). Oved -- signature-TK Thierry Kauffmann Chef du Service Informatique // Faculté des Sciences // Université de Montpellier 2 SIF - Service Informatique de la Faculté des Sciences UM2 - Université de Montpellier 2 Service informatique de la Faculté des Sciences (SIF) Université de Montpellier 2 CC437 // Place Eugène Bataillon // 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 Tél : 04 67 14 31 58 email : thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr web : http://sif.info-ufr.univ-montp2.fr/ http://www.fdsweb.univ-montp2.fr/ _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- signature-TK Thierry Kauffmann Chef du Service Informatique // Faculté des Sciences // Université de Montpellier 2 SIF - Service Informatique de la Faculté des Sciences UM2 - Université de Montpellier 2 Service informatique de la Faculté des Sciences (SIF) Université de Montpellier 2 CC437 // Place Eugène Bataillon // 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5 Tél : 04 67 14 31 58 email : thierry.kauffmann(a)univ-montp2.fr web : http://sif.info-ufr.univ-montp2.fr/ http://www.fdsweb.univ-montp2.fr/