[Users] webadmin login issues with AD

[Itamar Heim]

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?