Re: [Users] webadmin login issues with AD

On 01/03/2013 18:54, Keith Mitchell wrote: > > I'm trying to get rhevm 3.1 (which seems to be pretty much ovirt 3.1 > from what I can tell) authenticating against our active directory > infrastructure bu am having some difficulty that I don't quite > understand and was hoping someone may know what is happening. > > The server where rhevm/ovirt is running is a RHEL6 based server that has > NIS configured (with user home directories mounted via > nfs/automounter). The userids in nis match the userids in our > ActiveDirectory server (in fact the passwords should match too since > there is a sync between the two). > > I added the Activedirectory server into ovirt (through > rhevm-manage-domains) and it is added/validated successfully. As the > local admin user I can go in and search agains the active directory, add > permissions, etc. > > But... If I try to log into the webadmin/user portals with one of the > active directory accounts it seems to hang... and I noticed that it > seems to be trying to mount the home directory of a bunch of users via > the automounter (perhaps its trying to mount everyones home directory... > can't tell). This takes a super long time since the home directories > are all across the world and nfs access to some of these filesystems is > really slow... i'm not sure it will ever complete... certainly not > before the user gives up. > > Anyone know what would cause this? I wouldn't think this should > happen. I was thinking it should just authenticate the password and > then look at the permissions granted inside overt/rhevm. there is no need for the engine (rhev) machine to be part of the AD domain for AD authentication to work, and i don't see why this should happen. yair/juan - thoughts?