[Users] webadmin login issues with AD

[Keith Mitchell]

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.


thanks.